FOX's "Vanished" Pulled
FOX has decided to pull yet another freshman series from their prime-time schedule making this fall season probably their worst ever.
After scoring season-low 2,9 million viewers last Friday (by comparison even wrestling on The CW posted 4,34 million), FOX's abduction drama "Vanished" will be gone from the schedule for the next two weeks. The drama should return on December 1.
When the Gale Harold-fronted series premiered back in August (on Mondays, following "Prison Break") it attracted almost 9 million viewers. But as the season progressed, the storylines on the show demanded much stronger suspension of disbelief on the part of the viewers and the network lost faith in their leading man, Harold. Following the ridiculous assassination of Harold's character, FOX relaunched the show on Friday nights in November, but the viewers had already abandoned the series.
If FOX honors their commitment to loyal fans of the drama, the remaining four episodes will be burned off by Christmas. The writers have promised to give them a proper conclusion.
"Justice", the series that replaced "Vanished" on Monday nights, has also been pulled earlier this week. "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy" will take place of "Vanished" this week. Jim Carrey's comedy "Bruce Almighty" airs the following week.
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posted by Justin Van De Kamp at
2:03 PM
1 Comments:
The so called "loyal viewers" already left. We left when Gale left. Fox just continues to shoot itself in the proverbial foot.
Fox can pull it now and be done with it. I never cared about Sarah or who took her. My interest was in the Kelton backstory and how he was going to solve the case. With a leading man like Harold Fox should realize their target audience would be women 18-80. Let the 18-49 male demographic go. They didn't identify with Kelton because all they want is T&A. By killing Kelton and trying to pander to that demo by bringing in Lucas and having him jump Nash within his first 5 minutes screen time, the sponsors also lost their loyal customers.
Way to go Fox.
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