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NBC Announces Plans To Air Remainder Of 'Journeyman' Episodes

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#1 ·
NBC is bringing back "The Singing Bee" while newcomer "Journeyman" will wrap its 13-episode run with a pair of episodes during the week of December 17.

Both developments, confirmed via listings updates this afternoon, come as the Peacock prepares to unveil its January lineup.

As for specifics, "Journeyman" will air its 12th and 13th installments on Monday, December 17 and Wednesday, December 19 at 10:00/9:00c respectively, leading out of two-hour episodes of "Clash of the Choirs" on both nights.

NBC has yet to commit to any episodes beyond its initial 13-episode order despite asking for three additional scripts last month.

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=7510

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/journeyman/nbc-announces-plans-to-air-rem-14289.aspx
 
#3 ·
I bet if they were to re-run them, they would get better ratings as people are reluctant to jump of a series mid run for fear of not being able to catch up with an existing story arc.
 
#5 ·
+1000!!!!

Geez, do we need to start a grass roots campaign, and mail $20 bills to them?

Wait...how about Monopoly money?? :)
They still didn't utter the big "C" word yet.

Hah, I think Monopoly money would be the way to go. I'd send them a real $20 bill but I doubt many other people would! They'd still cancel it and make a little profit in the process.
 
#8 ·
I see the handwriting on the wall
I have 9 or 10 episodes that I have not watched yet. Guess I'll go ahead and deleted them, HD programming eats up a lot of space.
I don't get that. Why not watch them if you like them? Wistfully enjoying 10 episodes of a doomed show you like is better than seeing none of them out of spite.
 
#10 ·
Don't wish to get emotionally invested in a doomed show.
Been there, Done that.
But if you get a finish at the end, what's the problem? Supposedly Journeyman will give a resolution at the end. I've always felt that certain shows...like this one, Heroes, Lost, etc should only be a season or two long anyway.
 
#12 ·
Everything ends. Do you avoid getting emotionally invested in movies that are over after two hours, or books that end after 250 pages?
The problem is that a lot of the times there is no conclusion and it's like walking out of the theater at the 1:45 mark or having the last 10 pages of the book ripped out. Just look at all the anger about the Sopranos ending with many looking for some 'conclusion' to the story and not getting it.
 
#13 ·
The problem is that a lot of the times there is no conclusion and it's like walking out of the theater at the 1:45 mark or having the last 10 pages of the book ripped out. Just look at all the anger about the Sopranos ending with many looking for some 'conclusion' to the story and not getting it.
I agree with your film and book analogy, but the Sopranos is a bad example. Many got the feeling initially, but changed their minds when it was explained to them. David Chase himself said that the ending was..."life goes on".

I was one of the ones that hated it at first and then recognized the reasoning behind it and then didn't mind so much.

Anyway, The Sopranos was supposed to end that way. There was no walking out early or torn pages.
 
#15 ·
I made my wife watch the first four episodes this weekend and she was hooked. I downloaded them off of amazon unbox. Maybe if NBC sees a spike in that type of revenue-they will think twice? I mean, cmon, NBC-like you have ANYTHING better to put on Monday nights at 10? At least the awful Studio 60 got a full year.
 
#17 ·
The problem is that a lot of the times there is no conclusion and it's like walking out of the theater at the 1:45 mark or having the last 10 pages of the book ripped out. Just look at all the anger about the Sopranos ending with many looking for some 'conclusion' to the story and not getting it.
These days most every movie is written with a sequel in mind so you always get that feeling, even at the end.
 
#20 ·
Maybe someone can explain to me why they don't move such shows to Sci-Fi or similar place, the ratings they got would be SUPER on those, so why not?
 
#21 ·
Maybe someone can explain to me why they don't move such shows to Sci-Fi or similar place, the ratings they got would be SUPER on those, so why not?
1.) A certain network owns the show. They are not just going to hand it over to a competitor, even if the show has ended.

2.) If NBC puts on the show, it is going to cost XXX per episode. Another network may not be able to pay XXX, only X per episode to produce the show. So the quality of the show would suffer.
 
#22 ·
Maybe someone can explain to me why they don't move such shows to Sci-Fi or similar place, the ratings they got would be SUPER on those, so why not?
Sci-Fi could never afford these shows.

Network shows have network budgets. It's possible to negotiate contracts down for all the cast and crew to the point where a cable network could afford it, but pretty unlikely.
1.) A certain network owns the show. They are not just going to hand it over to a competitor, even if the show has ended.
More to the point, the network owns the right to broadcast the show. If they cancel it, the show's owners are free to shop it around. But it's pretty rare for another network to pick up a canceled show (why take a chance on a proven failure when you can air something that might do better?), and even rarer for a cable network to pick up a network show (L&O:CI comes to mind, but NBC/USA was blackmailed into it by Wolfe, who insisted all three shows be renewed).
 
#23 ·
Don't wish to get emotionally invested in a doomed show.
Been there, Done that.
The producer has said that the initial 13 episode run was planned as a complete story if that's all that got aired, so it appears you'll have a completely self-contained story.

I'd actually prefer these types of stories, as the multiple-season shows usually get bogged down under the weight of their own mythology (see: The X Files and Alias). If Traveler had simply had a more definite conclusion, it would have been a perfect length.
 
#24 ·
The producer has said that the initial 13 episode run was planned as a complete story if that's all that got aired, so it appears you'll have a completely self-contained story.
I am very happy to read this. NBC has been making some seriously bone-headed decisions lately that are not related to the writer's strike. Thankfully, though we will lose a good show, at least it will end 'on its own terms'.
 
#25 ·
I agree with your film and book analogy, but the Sopranos is a bad example. Many got the feeling initially, but changed their minds when it was explained to them. David Chase himself said that the ending was..."life goes on".

I was one of the ones that hated it at first and then recognized the reasoning behind it and then didn't mind so much.

Anyway, The Sopranos was supposed to end that way. There was no walking out early or torn pages.
Not to turn this into yet ANOTHER Sopranos discussion, but how is that a bad example if people felt and some still do feel that the finale was not a true conclusion or ending. My point was people get involved in a show and want to see how it ends and many people were not satisfied with the Sopranos finale really being an ending to the show that they got so involved in. BTW, Chase is an idiot, "life goes on"? Are you kidding me? You could use that for any show that has been cancelled. "Well what happened to Jake and the rest of the town of Jericho during the fight with Newburn? What happened with the tank and the train?...Well, they fought it out and life in the post-attack America went on."

Anyway, I'm glad that Journeyman will get to play out its run. Maybe this is one positive effect of the strike, this show may have been canned earlier otherwise.
 
#26 ·
I think you missed my point. I didn't mean it to be a discussion on how the Sopranos ended, but the fact that it did - to your satisfaction or not is a different argument. The point I was trying to make (badly, obviously), is that it DID end. There were no torn pages, broken film, crying babies or canceled series. It had an ending as opposed to a missing ending due to other factors. Therefore, I suggested that it was not a good analogy.
 
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