Originally Posted by Bex.:
“hope Carrie Diaries goes.. are all the pilots really called 'The' something? lol”
I'm actually slightly surprised The Carrie Diaries hasn't been renewed, not because the ratings justify it but because it was such a idiotic decision to pick it up in the first place and the CW have in the past shown that they stick by their obvious mistakes in the misguided belief that it will stop the initial decision from looking bad.
I said last year that I didn't think the pilot would be picked up as it had flop written all over it due to
- Being a prequel to a premium cable show from the 90’s meaning most of the CW target audience wouldn't have seen the source show during the initial run so there is a lack of connection for the average viewer
- Hardly any of their target demo would have had any really experience of the 80’s so the nostalgia aspect is lost. The Gossip Girl prequel had already failed in test screenings due largely to the 80’s setting.
And I can't understand how the cw execs failed to see that