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Lone Star (US Pace)
MoreTears
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Well, there's a thread for The Event and even one for Hawaii Five-O in this forum, but not one for the best new American show that premiered on Monday night. The first episode of Lone Star, on Fox, was far better than what either The Event or Hawaii Five-O offered as debut episodes. It isn't science fiction and it isn't a cop show, so I am not sure how many people here will want to take a look at Lone Star, but I thought I would start this thread to encourage people to give the pilot a try.
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Can't say I am surprised by the low ratings. This is "quality drama" and there is a reason why this kind of thing in America exists on cable, where the support of a niche audience is enough to support a show. The networks have to be more populist.
Also not surprised with the low numbers. Putting it up against Dancing With the Stars and Two and a Half Men was bad enough, they pulled in in excess of 35m between them. Further to that though, the premiere of The Event also pulled in 11m.
Quite simply there wasn't much of an audience left to watch sadly.
On another note, this is an odd show for the Fox network isn't it! its been a while since FOX have had a proper drama series (and by proper meaning pure drama without the Soap suds or the procedural / cop / hospital angle to it). Think the last pure drama that aired on FOX was probably Party Of Five and its ill-fated spin off Time of Your Life and that's going back a bit! Agree with what most out there are saying in that this show seems to be more of a cable-show in feel and theme and would perhaps stand a better chance at survival on one of the cable nets.
Ratings for the opener haven't been too good apparently and its not good that FOX has placed this on a really competitive night. Guess it stood the same chance as the others considering there were loads of debuting shows on the same night!
Anyway, hoping this show gets a proper chance. I like the concept.
Now 20th Century Fox can claim to have produced both a Death Star and a dead "Star."
That the Fox drama "Lone Star" is on death watch is no surprise after its disastrous debut Monday, the first night of the fall TV season.
But unlike most series that experience television's ultimate indignity -- cancellation after one episode -- "Star" isn't being ushered out of existence to schadenfreude-fueled peals of laughter in the industry.
That's because unlike most shows consigned to the one-and-done club, the "Star" pilot drew critical acclaim and stood out from the pack of new pilots for being different than the increasing glut of procedural hours.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ied4f9346f54dc08e3e0276177a7fb241
Great Fox, just great.
They make a bold decision to produce something of this tone and calibre, and then completely undo it all by risking the farm on it being able to knock out DWTS or TAAHM? Morons.
It was quite good so I'll watch again although I hope it doesn't turn into a soap.
Rob
Noting what it was up against. If the nubers in that article are correct then over half the people who watched it turned off by the end. Fox won't put up with nubers like that for more than a couple of episodes.
Looks really bad.
I bet Sky are feeling like they backed the wrong horse now though, i'm surprised that they went for this over JJ Abrams' 'Undercovers' seeing as they already have 'Fringe' and had 'Lost'.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/fox_not_cancelling_lone_star_j.html
They seem to be praising Fox for giving it a whole 2 episodes
And thanks to Welshbob
However, the bad news is that it only got 3.21million viewers for Fox last night. I guess that'll be pretty much it for Lone Star now, which is a shame.
IM sitting down to watch this in a bit. Read the bad news. The creator / producer is very keen on the show. Hopefully he will start shopping around if Fox cancel. truth be said the show could do so much better on a cable net. And with Southland having paved the way there could be a slight chance of survival for Lone star.
I'll enjoy it while it runs though, and hope that it comes back.
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/09/28/lone-star-canceled/
It was coming, it will be interesting to see what Lie to Me can pull in in the same time slot.
I doubt it. USTV shows never film that far in advance.. Filming on most shows usually begins sometime in July and it takes 7+ days to film an episode. They normally aim to have in the can and aim to broadcast 10-11 episodes between September and end of year. Rough guesstimate is they probably have something like 5-6 episodes in the can, and maybe the latter of these hasn't gone through post prod yet.
Anyway, since its officially cancelled Ill delay my viewing of episode 2 and catch up with the rest of last night's bunch - I stll have quite a few to get through before I acquire another load tmorrow lol.
Well they've got the HBO content as back up... It seems very clear to me now that they are not going to put any of the new series being produced by HBO on their premium pay tv channels (like sky movies)... They are all destined for Sky One etc now... The HBO stuff is the only guaranteed thing they have that will run for its full duration during its seasons.
Yep, Lie to Me is taking over the slot.
US networkd usually have a bunch of "mid season replacements" at the ready. Despite being pencilled in for january / february and even April debuts / returns, mid season replacements usually go into production at the same time as the "Fall Premieres / returnees". They normally come in to the schedule after the new year break, usually taking slots from series with shorter runs (13 eps as opposed to 22) or series with standard runs that run uninterrupted (therefore not covering the entire period Sept-May).
However, these series always have to be at the ready as they can be "called in for duty" earlier to replace new premieres that flop during the "Fall Season" launch.
There is also talk at Fox to possibly bring forward the premiere for cop drama "Ride-along" a mid season replacement originally intended for a March debut. IN any case with Lie to Me taking the slot, it is possible that ridealong could take an earlier debut slot - possibly the one originally planned for Lie to Me.