The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
10 shows that need to stop production
Immediately. They've had their shot. And then some. Audiences aren't responding. It's time to pull the plug. For good.
1) SUPERSTORE.
Each year, less and less people watch. And not that many ever watched to begin with. NBC has a lot of marbled fat on Thursday nights and this is the part that most needs trimming.
2) MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD.
Clark Gregg's mincing has never pulled in viewers. But actors that do pull in viewers are sent packing: Brett Dalton, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Luke Mitchell, Blair Underwood, Gabriel Luna, Ruth Negga, Dichen Lachman . . . Through it all, viewers were stuck with our modern day Edward Everett Horton -- whether they liked it or not and, judging by the ratings, they did not.
3) BLACK-ISH.
We would have thought the show had staying power. But then came season four and the . . . desire . . . to do . . . drama. Not since MAD ABOUT YOU has a sitcom gone so bad trying to be so real. The show started with over eleven million viewers and now has to scrap and pray for four million. It's time to close shop.
4) MADAM SECRETARY.
This CBS yawnedy is in season five. It started off with 15 million viewers and now gets about a third of that. Season one found it ranked the ten most watched broadcast program on prime time. By last season? It had fallen to the 37th most watched program. This season will be even lower. It's not THE GOOD WIFE and never has been. It's just imperialism in a pair of panties.
5) THE ROOKIE.
Easily the worst hour long show of fall 2018.
6) GOD FRIENDED ME.
Easily the second worst hour long show of fall 2018.
7) THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.
Easily the worst new sitcom on any network.
8) THE CONNERS.
We'd have ranked this much higher on the list were it not for the fact that the loss of viewers each week pretty much guarantees that any sane person in charge of network will cancel this show quickly.
9) ALL AMERICAN.
Airing after THE CW's biggest hit, RIVERDALE, this football show can't hold onto even half of RIVERDALE's viewers. Time to axe it and bring on something else before it starts harming RIVERDALE's ratings.
10) I FEEL BAD.
It should have been the first cancellation of the season. It's that bad.