And the Fall Television's First Cancellation of the Season is...

Link.

Who's next?

And the First Cancellation of the US 2012-13 TV Season is...

Link.

Only one episode I've seen and the overall plot threw me off. Only watching for Kyle McLachlan and Stephanie March. The end.

Tech-A&M Cancelled.

Isaac and its remnants push the season opener to October 13. No time has been announced. The game was supposed to be on Thursday, and on ESPNU, and was supposed to be the first game for A&M as a member of the Southeastern Conference (though this is not an SEC game).

The NEW Charlie's Angels Cancelled.

Is this not a surprise to me at all? Link.

First Broadcast TV Cancellation of 2011-12 Goes To...

PTC wins this one, but they're probably being the cowards for not waging war on trashy reality shows that are worse than this.

Linky.

Again, to the morons at PTC, this show might suck, but there are hundreds of shows that suck more. Now go after Jersey Shore!

It's Official! **RANT**

George Lopez's late night show CANCELLED. Good riddance. The worst of the bunch, his tbs show had about 2 years of bullshit that I think tbs executives gave in and pulled the plug for good.

The man was a over-political (more political than the competition and just as political as Bill Maher), race-card playing idiot that deserved this treatment. Also look at the Nielsens. All of the other late night hosts had HIGHER Nielsen ratings than his show, especially those on cable (Conan included).

Sadly, every late night show these days, from Leno and Letterman to Kimmel, Conan, Handler and Fallon, are lacking some brilliant comedic material that are turning some people off. But again none worst than Lopez, who had what he had coming when his sitcom got the axe by ABC years back. Now this.

Where does he go from here? Who knows? I don't give a fuck. He could go flip burgers for all I care.

The end.

OLTL, AMC Cancelled. An In-Depth Analysis.

Agnes Nixon would be heartbroken to see her two soaps getting the axe by ABC on Thursday.

Impact players: Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, AMC, left), and Erika Slezak (Victoria Davidson Banks, OLTL, right)

The news came out on Thursday that both One Life to Live and All My Children are history after some point in September, according to officials at ABC. Both are produced in-house by ABC. In it's place, two reality shows, unlike NBC when Passions and Another World were cancelled a few years back, decided to give back it's hours to local affiliates. CBS did the same thing in 2009, almost, but when As the World Turns and Guiding Light got the axe from CBS, the network got two replacements: The Talk, a talk show in the style of The View, and the network TV return of Let's Make a Deal, with Wayne Brady as host, now in it's second season, with a third season of episodes on its way this fall. OLTL went on the air in 1968, and AMC two years later, in 1970. Agnes Nixon, the creator of both shows (still presently living), was a writer at AW, ATWT and GL in the 1950s and 1960s.

So where does the soaps world leave with now? Only four choices remaining.  Regardless of the cancellations of OLTL and AMC, still leaves General Hospital (1963) as the oldest still running. Days of Our Lives (1965), and The Young & the Restless (1974) are still active soaps to this day. So is The Bold & the Beautiful, who replaced Capitol as CBS's 30 minute soap in the spring of 1987.

My question remains is this? Will this new move for ABC daytime be good or bad? For some, especially those OLTL and AMC fans (my mom watches AMC), it will be heartbreaking to see them gone. But for me, who cares? As a male, I don't have the time, because I have the Internet and places to go to!

So why is ABC (and NBC) passing up on game shows, but CBS isn't? You see, the networks are wanting the local affilates to get time for them by airing early newscasts, syndicated shows for local ad revenue. The same could be said years back in the '80s when NBC and CBS had those powerful daytime game show lineups, and some affiliates decided that airing shit like Phil Donahue, or other syndie programming (or locally produced talk shows in large markets) instead of stuff like Scrabble, Classic Concentration, Hot Potato, $25,000 Pyramid, or Card Sharks, could give them more local ad revenue than network programming.

Also there is some questioning about the move by ABC and whether or not affiliates would want to take advantage of airing these shows or pre-empting for syndie and/or local produced shows. That is the burning question that is on the station programming directors in the months to come. Also, who knows what will be on the mend for syndicated programming in the fall now that Oprah is going off the air (thank God!). The natpe convention is in June in LA, and who knows what will be pitched for the fall. Stay tuned!