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It has been done before ….good, decent shows are cancelled and
replaced by a mid season junker, but shows have been saved by fans
contacting the network and telling them how awful it would be if the
show was cancelled……and it saved the outcome of the show.
Supposidly they are going by Neilson Ratings, but it does not capture
people who DVR, TIVO it or watch it on the web. . I know you all are
busy but it would only take a few minutes of your time. If you can
send this to everyone you know……maybe you can help me save the
show!

This is the direct link to the page for feedback to ABC.

http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html?lid=ABCCOMGlobalFooter&lpos=CONTACT

Chris, I’ve watched “Jim.” The reviews are correct. It’s terrible. Maybe not the worst sitcom on TV (that honor goes to The Disney Channel’s offerings — take your pick), but pretty close to it. The bad casting was what really did it in. Belushi and Thorne-Smith have basically no chemistry. The supporting actors are wooden. And it doesn’t do well in syndication. And its ratings hit the skids after the fourth season. This is the last season, but it should have been the last season 3 seasons ago. There’s only so much you can pad a syndication package before the locals don’t even care if there are 18 more episodes available or not. But I guess ABC needed some cannon fodder for “American Idol,” and that was as good as any.

I’ll forgive Laraine Newman’s sister for co-creating it, because at least she had the good sense to leave it.

As to their being other factors, of course there are other factors. However, this simple analysis worked very well last season (and so far this season). If you can demonstrate how some shows that didn’t fit the Index got cancelled (or renewed) using some different analysis, that would be interesting. I await your results.

As I said above, I will be adding a “trend” variable starting next week. The trend is likely important for shows near the “cancel/renew” line. Shows near the line heading up are likely fine, shows near the line heading down are likely in trouble.

Also, I will add a bit of “early season recap” to next weeks post, since the mid-season changes have mostly been announced.

I can see jiggering the schedule, but think you’re *far* more likely to see something like CBS cancelling The Unit, move Eleventh Hour there, try something new Thursdays at 10pm and go from there.

I don’t understand the attraction of According to Jim. It can’t be the acting. I have to wonder if According to Jim is doing well in syndication. If that may play a role in all of this.

As for Daisies, I can think of three networks that it could perhaps do well at. The Scifi channel, because that is basically what this show is. Lifetime, because the show draws in the woman viewer. The USA Network, where characters are welcome.

Don’t be surprised if “Eleventh” is a one-season show… or less. They paid a fortune for the rights to it, and then another fortune for Bruckheimer. And it’s underperforming. Never mind it gets a 7 rating and a 12/13 share and wins its time slot in households and total viewers week after week. NBC would kill for numbers like that. But this is CBS, and they’re in a perpetual state of thinking they can do better (and save money while doing it). I don’t really know what their expectations were, but I’m sure they fall somewhere between unrealistic and unreasonable. They have something of a reason to be upset, because it drops a pretty big amount of “CSI” viewers and drops at the half hour mark.

Never mind that the show’s maintained its premiere audience and that Bruckheimer’s responsible for 6 hours of CBS hits. They’ve got two cheaper dramas shot-in-Canada waiting in the wings. That’s all that matters.

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I think you can put LOM back in Orange since 4 more eps were ordered.

“In Harm’s Way” was a pretty darn good show, too. (See, DSJanitor? I like low-rated shows, too. When they’re watchable.) I hope somebody, like the Discovery Channel, can pick up the reruns and dust off the 5 remaining segs.