It's all in the family on tv this fall
The last network has announced its new line-up in Manhattan and we can’t help but notice that vertical integration is alive and well in the television industry.
The five broadcast networks went the conservative route this development season, ordering only 33 new scripted shows for the next TV season (including mid-season). Of those new shows, only nine —nine!!!! — are comedies, which is kind of sad but we digress.
For the most part, the networks stuck with their own production companies in picking up their new products, oops, we mean projects. ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television have 15 of those shows between them. Check it out:
---CBS has four new dramas and one comedy. Three are produced by CBS Paramount and two by Warner Bros., its studio partner in sister network The CW.
---ABC has seven dramas and four comedies. Six are produced by ABC Studios, one by 20th Century Television and another one is jointly produced by both ABC and 20th Century. Of the three remaining shows, two belong to Warner Bros. Television and one to Sony Television.
---NBC Universal has five dramas and one comedy. Four are produced by NBC Universal Studios, one each by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. Television.
---FOX has four dramas and three comedies. Three are produced by 20th Century Fox Television, two by Regency Television and one each by Warner Bros. Television and Sony Television.
---The CW, the CBS and Warner Bros. hybrid, has three dramas and one comedy. CBS Paramount produces two of them, Warner Bros. Television and ABC Studios each has one.
--Maria Elena Fernandez
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CBS made a huge mistake cancelling Jericho. What's the name of their new REALITY TV show? Kid's Nation? What a joke. Save Jericho.
Posted by: Chad S. | May 17, 2007 at 05:02 PM
I think that CBS' decision to cancel Jericho and replace it with Kid Nation (which reeks of Lord of the Flies comparisons) is extraordinarily misguided. They are cancelling a compelling, well scripted and acted drama and replacing it with yet another ridiculous reality program. Fans of the show have been calling and emailing CBS and sending nuts (an reference to one character's use of "NUTS" in place of "Go to He*l" in a campaign to get the network to reconsider it's decision or shop the show to another network. The message boards at CBS are full of angry fans and new sites are popping up to encourage people to continue the fight to save Jericho.
Posted by: ahume | May 17, 2007 at 05:04 PM
CBS has cancelled Jericho, the best, most family friendly, thought provoking, intriguing, wonderful show on their network and any other network. They are replacing it with garbage about an unsupervised kids reality show, and are also showing a "detective vampire show" and a 1970s sex-a-thon. Sounds like quality programming. Just what Americans want to see, nooooooooot!!!. I will never again give CBS any of my viewing time, or their advertisers. If you have any courage LA times you will post this.
Posted by: Gale | May 17, 2007 at 05:05 PM
Honestly, a lot of the new lineups appear to be, well boring. and CBS'S idea of a KIDS reality show replacing one of the best new shows of last season in Jericho was down right apalling. Jericho deserves back people!
Posted by: James | May 17, 2007 at 05:07 PM
Its had to imagine the type of executives that will stop a fantastic and refreshing show like Jericho for a show like Kids Nation or a show about parent swapping swingers. For our household , it used to be must watch TV on Wed. Their scheduling messed it all up. Instead of taking that on the chin they dump the show. Now CBS is never watch TV. We are willing to give up the 15 CSI shows to make our point. If only we were a Neilsen(sp?) house and we would really have influence... all 6000 of them. I trust this new batch of shows will die and they will make up some other excuse.
Long Live Jericho
Posted by: RM | May 17, 2007 at 05:08 PM
You should be interested to know that fans of CBS' canceled Jericho are not sitting on their laurels and letting this happen. Along with blogging, wikis, e-mails, phone calls to the studios and online forums, a grassroots campaign to display our disgust is underway. In a nod to the final episode, and a World War II response of "Nuts" from US GIs to a Nazi surrender request, fans are bombarding CBS with (you guessed it), nuts! Shelled, dry roasted, packing peanuts, faxed photos of Mr. Peanut, jars of macadamias, all filling the desktops, fax machines and mailboxes of the corporate giant. Sort of a "Why We Fight" befitting response to premature show cancellation. Just thought I'd pass on the note...we'll be interested to see what you do with it.
Posted by: Jon Gilbert | May 17, 2007 at 05:08 PM
CBS's judgement is seriously impaired! They get rid of a quality show like JERICHO and replace it with yet more nonsense. I will never watch another CBS show again!
Posted by: Lewanna | May 17, 2007 at 05:09 PM
If Jericho isn't on CBS's fall schedule I will not watch anything they have to offer. The suits at CBS killed Jericho with their inability to think for themselves. Our shows had a hiatus so they gave Jericho one. You can't do that with a first tiem show and expect every viewer to come back, it just needed some time to establish a fan base. Also bringing a first time show against American Idol on top of everything doomed Jericho. No show could have overcome what the big wigs at CBS put Jericho up against
Posted by: Jesse | May 17, 2007 at 05:09 PM
To whom it may concern,
I was viewer of television show on CBS called Jericho. I found out along with the 8 to 9 million other fans of the show that it was cancelled yesterday. We have been calling, emailing anyone we can at CBS to listen to us, and hopefully reconsider the cancellation this show. We have been calling and emailing MR. Kelly Kahl, and we are hoping that he is hearing the message we are sending loud and clear. We, the fans of the Show Jericho, will continue to put pressure on Mr. Kahl to give Jericho another chance, and we will not stop until he addresses us on the CBS evening News, with the reasoning behind his decision to cancel the show. Please go and see the Jericho Blog at cbs.com and you will know how, we the fans of Jericho truly feel.
Thank you
Posted by: Roy Ryan | May 17, 2007 at 05:10 PM
I will not be watching anything since the cancellation of Jericho. CBS is not worthy of my time or money. I can't believe they mislead all the fans and sponsors of Jericho by leading us to believe there would be a second season when they knew there never was going to be one. We are not numbers on a piece of paper but people who have feelings and emotions that shouldn't be trampled for dollars. The show didn't have a fair honest chance to bring in the rating because it was stacked against American Idol which rules Wednesday nights. CBS should be ashamed of its tactics and bring Jericho back so it can be given an apparent chance to get the ratings that it deserves.
Posted by: Teresa Stoke | May 17, 2007 at 05:11 PM
All I can say is that CBS must stand for Completely Brainless Shows for what they are doing with their line-up. They take off a wonderful, suspenseful show like Jericho and put 40 kids in it's place? Whose bright idea was that. I can't wait until it bombs, which it will, mark my word -
Hopefully another network will see that Jericho could have been a huge success if it was placed in the right time slot (not opposite American Idol) and allowed to run an entire season and not be split up. All I can say is what CBS has shown is one bad decision after another, after another.
how sad...
and they don't even care to listen to their viewers ...
*sigh*
BRING BACK JERICHO -
Posted by: Wendy | May 17, 2007 at 05:12 PM
They axed Jericho for this junk? Wow, thats the worst new fall lineup I've seen in a while.
Posted by: RK | May 17, 2007 at 05:14 PM
Yes, I'm so thrilled by CBS decision to cancel Jericho and replace it with more reality tv. Great way to end what could have been the best series on tv for a long time. Jericho Lives!
Posted by: Raquel M | May 17, 2007 at 05:15 PM
CBS needs to bring back Jericho!!! We will not stop bothering CBS and will not stop emailing, calling and snail-mailing all media sources until our message is responded to!
Posted by: April | May 17, 2007 at 05:17 PM
Family-oriented television? Do you really think that "Kid Nation" will be any different than the other reality shows on television?
Let's teach our children that is okay if they lie, cheat and steal, especially if these actions mean that they win. Sounds good.
Maybe that's what is wrong with our country now--the "If it feels good, do it, no matter what the consequences to others" crowd has finally won.
It is sad that CBS cancelled "Jericho." Even though it was a post-apocalyptic drama with intense battle scenes, at least it taught the importance of friendship, loyalty and sticking together. I won't watch CBS unless it brings back "Jericho" and starts developing other shows like it. Thanks to parental controls, neither will anyone else in my family.
Posted by: Karen | May 17, 2007 at 05:20 PM
Canceling Jericho is just plain wrong! two and 1/2 men sucks, Survivor sucks, King of Queens was on for like eight years and it sucked and blew! Nuts to CBS exectives! We will not let Jericho die without a fight!
Posted by: kristy | May 17, 2007 at 05:21 PM
I am beginning to lose faith in CBS programming. They just cancelled Jericho, the best show on television, in favor of yet another reality show, Kids Nation. I am deeply disapppointed. Jericho was an original and intelligent drama with excellent writing and a stellar cast. Why wouldn't CBS want to promote originality and intelligence in the programming? Oh yeah that's right, CBS is the network of crime dramas and reality shows and little else; not much orignatlity there!
How did CBS choose to promote Jericho: they took it off the air for three months with very little promotion during the hiatus. How is a freshmen drama supposed to gain or even keep an audience when it is not on the air? It is clear that CBS used poor judgment in this instance, and now Jericho has to pay the price.
I hope CBS reconsiders its decision to cancel Jericho. At the very least, maybe some other network will find this jewel that CBS threw in the garbage.
CBS, good luck with your schedule next fall. Kid Nation is a ridiculous concept and Swingtown is just a knock-off of ABC's Desperate Housewives only with more polyester and shag carpeting.
Posted by: Amy | May 17, 2007 at 05:22 PM
CBS. Does not care about viewership and has let down thousands of people. They finally put decent show on and they cancel it. Jericho was the best TV show currently on. Look at the JERICHO message boards people are very upset. I just hope another network takes advantage of CBS poor programing and grabs this show.
Posted by: Barb | May 17, 2007 at 05:23 PM
My biggest disapointment is the cancellation of Jericho by CBS. I definately will not be watching Kid Nation on wed. night
Posted by: Omar Packard | May 17, 2007 at 05:24 PM
CBS can suck wind this Fall as I won't be watching anything on its network (or the CW), especially the load of garbage they intend to offer, unless and until "Jericho" is returned to the airwaves.
Posted by: Mandrel Bore | May 17, 2007 at 05:27 PM