The other five completed episodes remain unaired in the United States, but were shown in Vancouver, Canada on BCTV in a late-afternoon weekend timeslot. Heil Honey I'm Home! Despite being heavily promoted during the World Series, the show was canned not only because of bad ratings but because news coverage of wildfires in Malibu had pre-empted the show on much of the West Coast although KCBS showed the pilot on October 30 at PM.
The remaining five episodes aired on VH1 a year later. Thirteen episodes were produced, and the pilot was originally scheduled to air first, but several affiliates refused to show it. CBS then decided to air a different episode from the thirteen produced, but even that was too much to ask, as it turned out to be the only one aired.
Lawless Fox action series starring former American football star Brian Bosworth as a private investigator. Comedians Unleashed An attempt by Animal Planet to mimic Comedy Central's stand-up comedy shows, but with animal-themed jokes. The episode was rerun a few times before being removed from the programming lineup.
This is not to be confused with the syndicated series Comics Unleashed, hosted by Byron Allen. The Will CBS reality show in which family members and friends competed to be named the beneficiary of a will. The series eventually aired in its entirety on Fox Reality Channel, and aired in New Zealand as well.
Or maybe it was the dismal ratings. It was such a big hit on the social networking site that NBC acquired the rights to air it on their network after the webisodes aired, in Unfortunately, it barely got any attention on TV, and pulled historically low ratings for the network. In fact, the show about a group of artists in their twenties, earned the network its worst ratings in the Tuesday, 10 pm slot in 17 years. Unfortunately the network was wrong. Perhaps that's why Fox canceled the show two days after its first episode aired in November The sitcom, which starred Heather Graham as the titular Emily, premiered in , was unfavorably compared to "Sex and the City," and said to employ the most basic of gay stereotypes.
Though ABC spent a significant amount of money promoting the show , once the less-than-stellar premiere numbers came in 6. The show aired a single episode in January before CBS canceled it — perhaps its standing as the network's lowest-watched show that week had something to do with it. A re-run of "Cold Case" replaced it. They even managed to get two aired episodes out of that bizarre premise, which can't make the people behind this entry feel too good about their single episode.
Again, not to be confused with another show with the same title, AP's Comedians Unleashed was a show where stand-up comedians did jokes entirely focused on animals. They even got famous comedian Richard Jeni to host the strange show, with a before-his-breakout appearance by Chris D'Elia. It's unclear just how much mileage Animal Planet thought they could squeeze out of a comedy show that was all about a single, ongoing topic, but one episode's worth is all that we ever got-- which seems like plenty.
Reality television premises are often pandering and controversial. From a woman pranking her entire family for months with a fake engagement to a horrible person, to a network putting a bunch of attractive, half-naked people on an island and daring them not to have sex with each other, it's a genre that frequently goes for the lowest common denominator. And audiences often can't get enough, with even the seediest of premises keeping a show on the air for years. There are times, however, when reality show producers actually manage to take things too far.
Such was the case with CBS's The Will , a show where a real-life multi-millionaire had his actual friends and relatives competing in a competition to see who would get to inherit his valuable ranch. Met with abysmal ratings and complaints about the gross nature of a rich person having his friends and loved ones compete against each other on television to be named his beneficiary, CBS only aired a single episode of The Will.
Based on a novel, Emily's Reasons Why Not featured Heather Graham making the jump to television after a successful stint in Hollywood. Graham starred as Emily, a relationship self-help author who ironically is unlucky in love herself. The premise of the show is that Emily has decided that with each new potential boyfriend she meets, she'll only continue in her relationship with him if she can't come up with five reasons to break up with him.
In a post- Sex and the City world, any similar type of show had to bring its A-game in order to hack it, and Emily definitely did not. The debut episode was fraught with weak writing and an unfortunate reliance on gay stereotypes, with Emily assuming that her new boyfriend was gay because he was into jiu-jitsu huh? Turns out he was just a devout Mormon who believed in sex only after marriage.
ABC was all-in on Emily before the debut, pouring millions of dollars behind marketing the show. The problem was, they did all of that without even so much as seeing a finished script, relying only on the premise and the star power of Graham.
After the dreadful reception of the debut, they quickly cut their losses and cancelled the show immediately. While Facebook had begun to gain serious ground in , MySpace was still the top social media platform in the world at that time.
The company decided to launch a scripted web series about bloggers in their twenties called Quarterlife with some pretty impressive talent behind it-- its creators were also responsible for generation-defining shows Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life. The series garnered enough buzz that NBC acquired the rights to show it on television, and compiled and re-edited the eight-minute web shorts into hour-long TV episodes.
Unfortunately, mainstream audiences weren't ready to fully embrace web-style programming in YouTube still hadn't quite reached critical mass-- and reception to the TV version of Quarterlife was exceedingly negative. Only one of the completed TV episodes was aired on NBC, though the remaining ones were eventually made available on their website. It should also be noted that Quarterlife was only the third most-watched scripted web series in MySpace history, so to expect the third-highest-rated MySpace show to be a top-rated NBC show was quite the leap of faith.
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