Nick C's Behind the Screens

An NBC fall schedule that includes Conan O’Brien but not “Law & Order?”  Who’d have thought!  That’s because Conaco-produced “Outlaw” (formerly known as “Garza”) starring Jimmy Smits made it onto the schedule, albeit in an invisible timeslot, while “Law & Order” was officially given the axe.  Despite L&O going by the wayside, a new spin-off, “Law & Order: Los Angeles” made the schedule as expected.  That means Wednesdays will now include two full hours of L&O shows, with SVU being bumped back to 9 pm where it floundered last fall when Leno was acting as a ratings-suck in the 10 pm slot.  But hey, it’s NBC.  To their credit, they didn’t let the fact that they had five extra hours to fill stop them from canceling crap like “Mercy,” “Trauma,” and “Heroes.”  NBC programmers had but one season to make an impression on Comcast, so it was out with the old, in with the new.

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Uh-oh! Is this the mysterious person who filmed their last episode a few weeks ago?

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Will the current season be the last of HEROES?

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Over at Airlock Alpha, an interesting story has gone up about how NBC is telling HEROES Producers to start planning a Series Finale…

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Tonight might be the last night of TRAUMA.  The key word being “might,” and we’ll know more as soon as the overnights get posted on Tuesday morning.  What does this mean for HEROES fans and CHUCK fans?

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Let’s have some fun for a change. What cute taglines can we think of for shows that are likely to be canned sometimes in the near future. I’ll post a few to start it out…

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It’s currently the hot topic at the Peacock.   Word is that as of now it’s a question of when the move takes place vs. will it take place.  Your thoughts?

HEROES Season 4 debuted last night to dismal ratings.

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Eric S is one of the new writers on the site.  He’s a big fan of TV and has done some crazy things that I frown upon heavily like sending nuts to poor hapless assistants at CBS and making their week horrible as they try and figure out what to do with the nuts.  As long as he didn’t send them blood the next season for MOONLIGHT… anyway he has an interesting take on HEROES, because he has never watched it.  He has the POV of someone on the outside looking in.  This is an important POV, one that NBC should be paying a lot of attention to.  So I’m posting this article with a forward to explain why you’re seeing it.  Anyway enjoy:

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In October of 2008 NBC finally panicked.  They had ignored Season 2 numbers and were still confident that Tim Kring could bring HEROES back to watercooler discussions everywhere.  However now it was different.  Word had come down from up high to Angela Bromstad that something had to be done with HEROES both creatively and with the budget.  Kring having heard of the problem himself immediately went to action and fired his two most troublesome writers:  Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander in November.

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