http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/10/28/see-this-video-before-you-vote-on-nov-4th/

ABC rather have more soap operas, plus PD this season has been a mess. Several story lines from last season were just randomly dropped, and the whole feel and flow of the show is so bad even I stopped watching it.

I think that may actually be enough to get four more airings in December, but certainly not for the two Wednesdays in November sweeps where it isn’t already pre-empted. ABC might leave well enough alone for December before totally revamping the night in January.

Again, we MAY end up seeing all 13 episodes on television simply because ABC has nothing else in the can. For example, they didn’t have any half-hour shows at the moment, hence why they didn’t want to air the Obama special without having an 8:30 lead out. Again, they can either continue to accept the 2.0 (or so) 18-49 rating and air the completed episodes of PD through December or replace them with a rerun. But again, I’m not sure ABC really has any reruns that can muster up 6 million viewers, not to mention that re-runs aren’t as valuable for advertisers. As long as they aren’t losing money by airing PD and are able to walk away unscathed each week (if not adding to ABC’s pool of cash), they’ll probably grin & bear it, airing all eight of the remaining episodes in a row through the end of December.

Also, I think it’s a coin toss as to whether or not they pull this show for sweeps. I really don’t think ABC has anything else to air in its place, so they might as well go with this. Reruns of Grey’s Anatomy or Desperate Housewives are the only things that MIGHT be able to post better numbers.

I’m not sure if the DVD sales thing rings true though, but I don’t know what is decent. Relative to say, Supernatural, it didn’t seem to do well but that’s based on limited data. It was only on the top 30 chart for one week, so I only could see one week of info:

http://the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/2008/20080921.php

(On iPhone in dr’s office bec he’s running late, so no pic, but I’m the Julia with the avatar not the other one.)

1) The strike killed off any chance of mid-season hits arriving.

2) This fall’s lineup is weaker than last year’s (which was weaker than the year before). Basically, the proposed new series crop was so poor all around that the network heads had to pick up a lot of old shows and hope they’d do alright instead of go with an unproven series that they were sure would fail.

As for Pushing Daisies, I guess we can now hope for two things.

1) That all 13 episodes of Season 2 are produced and that the season finale will work as a suitable series finale.

2) That ABC will fill the time slot with shows that will only perform worse a la when FOX canceled Undeclared only to have less viewers after That 70’s Show from that point onward.