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WB: '7th Heaven' canceled over costs
cnn ^ | 1-17-06

Posted on 01/17/2006 9:47:28 AM PST by LouAvul

PASADENA, California (AP) -- The Camden family is disappearing from television in May strictly for financial reasons: the WB's top executive said Sunday that the network is losing $16 million this year on "7th Heaven."

The family drama, the most popular program in the network's history, will end its run after 10 years. The decision seems irreversible despite an Internet campaign to save it, even though "7th Heaven" is still the WB's second highest-rated show after "Gilmore Girls." (The WB, like CNN, is a division of Time Warner.)

Production costs tend to jump for television series as they get older, largely because the salaries of actors and others involved grow with success. "7th Heaven," about a family of seven and all their friends, has a large cast.

Reruns of "7th Heaven" were fading in the ratings, too, and that made it tougher for the network to recoup its investment, said Garth Ancier, the WB's top executive.

"As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business," Ancier said.

Other older WB series, "Smallville" and "Gilmore Girls," don't have the same problem, he said.

Talks about a spinoff to "7th Heaven" have proven inconclusive so far.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 7thheaven; hollywood
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1 posted on 01/17/2006 9:47:28 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul

There's a network called the WB?


2 posted on 01/17/2006 9:49:38 AM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: lovecraft

Warner Brothers


3 posted on 01/17/2006 9:50:17 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: LouAvul

i watched this the first couple of years in was on the air... i didn't watch it religiously... just when i could... those were the days when i was not yet a parent... when i had more time! i lost interest as the Camden children aged... all of a sudden Mary was a delinquent...


4 posted on 01/17/2006 9:55:05 AM PST by latina4dubya
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To: LouAvul

Plus who wants to watch a family with normal Christian values. There's nothing unusual about that. Average people turn on the boob tube to feel better about their own lives.


6 posted on 01/17/2006 9:58:34 AM PST by presidio9 (Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

I know, I forgot my sarcasm tag...ooops! :-)


7 posted on 01/17/2006 10:03:06 AM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: tickedoff

There was a period of time, what I'd like to call my personal dark age, that I had NO cable! I had to use an old 13 inch black and white set with a jerry-rigged antenna set-up consisting of headphone wire and paper clips, and all I could get were the networks-ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox, PAX, and the WB.

I watched a lot of Seventh Heaven and got a bit sucked in, although I couldn't tell you any of the plot lines.

Also caught a lot of Bonanza!, Little House on the Prairie, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and LA Law.

They were very dark days, my friends.


8 posted on 01/17/2006 10:05:30 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: LouAvul
THANK YOU!!!!!
9 posted on 01/17/2006 10:07:44 AM PST by TXBSAFH ("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
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To: presidio9

Actually, I watched it with the kids early on, but then it got exceedingly humanistic and everyone kind of went off the deep end. It also go much more sexual as the Camden kids grew older.

So, since I couldn't watch it with the kids, we stopped all together. No loss really.


10 posted on 01/17/2006 10:07:46 AM PST by pollyannaish
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To: LouAvul

They announced this like two months ago, why is it news now.


11 posted on 01/17/2006 10:11:37 AM PST by jbwbubba
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To: LouAvul
Talks about a spinoff to "7th Heaven" have proven inconclusive so far.

The sequel 2nd Heaven about the two surviving members of a family of seven is still in salary negotions to see which actors will take a pay cut and which characters will be eaten by wild dogs. < /sarcasm>

12 posted on 01/17/2006 10:14:12 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Hey Fat Ted: Alito is the judge, Mojito is what you're drinking. Try to remember the difference.)
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To: latina4dubya

All of the kids turned out pretty delinquent.


13 posted on 01/17/2006 10:15:08 AM PST by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
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To: lovecraft

Largely, a 16-year-old girl's network.


14 posted on 01/17/2006 10:17:13 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: Sensei Ern

However, it did surprise me that it was quite conservative in the beginning, considering it was made by the same guy who did All in the Family.


15 posted on 01/17/2006 10:19:02 AM PST by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
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To: jbwbubba

Maybe because dummies like my wife and me didn't hear it untill yesterday?


16 posted on 01/17/2006 10:27:19 AM PST by Springman
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To: LouAvul

The show has just been awful for the past several years and is in dire need of being cancelled. It long ago lost it's direction and became little more than another hour of dreck occupying a time slot in "the great wasteland".


17 posted on 01/17/2006 10:31:39 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: LouAvul
Just as long as someone picks up Arrested Development, the funniest, best written show out there.


18 posted on 01/17/2006 10:33:36 AM PST by Central Scrutiniser (What would Jesus do......for a Klondike bar?)
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To: Central Scrutiniser

naw......it's Boston Legal.


19 posted on 01/17/2006 10:34:33 AM PST by bonfire
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To: LouAvul

The first few seasons, the show was good. Like most, it got crappy as it aged.


20 posted on 01/17/2006 10:35:23 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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