Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Deel 4

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Led by Ghost Whisperer, Friday’s most-watched show, CBS continued its Friday night domination. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse continue their downward slide Flashpoint does seem to be taking a 10%-15% hit among 18-49s. Whether that is due to Dollhouse or something else is hard to say.

Friday Night Lights which also appears doomed unless it again plays gold digger to DirecTV’s sugar daddy in the fall. We have no idea of DirecTV’s state of mind when it comes to handing NBC a blank check. But Friday Night Lights and Dollhouse are locked in a fairly competitive battle in the 9pm hour.

Ghost Whisperer’s 11.57 million average and 2.8/9 (rating share) among adults 18-49 was far and away the most-watched show of the evening. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had less than a 3rd of the viewers GW had, and worse slid to a 1.2/4 among 18-49s (3.41 million viewers), that was down from last week’s 3.84 million and 1.3/5.

Dollhouse didn’t dip by much. It was down to 4.13 million and a 1.6/5 with 18-49s versus last week’s 4.22 million and 1.7/5.

Tahmoh Penikett had a diverse Friday night. He went from being shot in the abdomen in Dollhouse to getting it on with [edit: spoiler deleted, sorry about that, BSG fans who hadn't gotten around to the DVR yet] in Battlestar Galactica.

I’m sure Summer Glau fans will moan about her lack of air time in last night’s TSCC. It was like they threw in a scene of her walking around in her bra just to make up for it. But, too little, too late I suppose. TSCC even lost to Howie Do It (including a repeat episode!) That’s gotta sting a little.

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Is it possible that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles could be cancelled before the season even ends? Sure, it’s possible, but it doesn’t seem likely, despite continued deteriorating ratings. But, what FOX does or doesn’t do with the 8pm slot on Fridays may say more to how it feels about Dollhouse, than how it feels about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

We already know how FOX feels about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Sucky. The question is, does it feel just plain awful about it? My guess is no. Even with the latest ratings decline which included getting beat by an hour of Howie Do It (one original episode, one repeat), I’m thinking FOX lets it finish out its run.

That thinking is predicated on speculation which I merely think is true, rather than anything I know for certain is true. But I speculate that Warner Brother a.) made the show available to FOX very cheaply and b.) that when Terminator: Salvation comes out there will be a HUGE marketing spend promoting the movie, and that FOX will get a preferential share of the television advertising dollars allocated to promote the movie.

Speaking of the movie, now even James Hibberd likely motivated by crazed Terminator fanboys on the Internet throws out (and simultaneously, smacks down) the notion of well what if the movie is a hit in the summer and rubs off on the TV show. That’s not happening!

Commitment to a two hour, big screen, action packed movie is very different than a television show. But moreover, even if it’s the blockbuster hit of the summer (and I’ll certainly go see it!), and even if it does create a Terminator frenzy that causes more people to check out the TV show, they’ll check it out and think, “That’s not anything like the movie, see ya!”

If it was one hour of pure Sarah and Cameron being badass chicks with stuff constantly blowing up? It would do better, for sure. But that approach would do better regardless of there being a movie. That isn’t the show they are making. They’ve moved further and further away from that sort of thing (although it looks like they might be moving back towards more action) and it’s not clear to me that Josh Friedman wants to make that kind of show.

It seems, Friedman is much more interested in exploring how people react and adapt to what’s going on around them. I find that aspect similar to Battlestar Galactica, but that’s easier to get away with on cable and it’s not like BSG’s ratings are catching fire, although with only 3 episodes left now, that doesn’t matter.

But Battlestar Galactica doesn’t have anybody whining about how its lead-in is tanking BSG’s ratings which is semi-remarkable as its current lead-in is Moonlight. SciFi Friday nights right now has Moonlight sandwiched in-between reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica.

But TSCC is facing pressure, at least from fans of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Dollhouse fans are starting to get exasperated over the TSCC lead-in and wondering if FOX could do anything else. I’m not sure there’s anything FOX could put on at 8pm that would measurably change how it’s going for Dollhouse, but it seems a slam dunk that FOX could improve the night’s performance overall at least a bit, simply by replacing TSCC with House reruns.

There’s absolutely no way Dollhouse doesn’t get to air all 13 episodes (they’ve already been shot!), and I don’t see FOX pulling the plug on TSCC. But if it does, that to me says much more about how FOX feels about Dollhouse. If it improved Dollhouse’s lead-in that would suggest that FOX cares more about Dollhouse than whatever deal it has with Warner Brothers that has kept TSCC on the air as long as it already has. I don’t see that happening, but if it did I’d view it as a sign that FOX isn’t completely in the space of “once all 13 episodes have aired, it’s done.”

Despite all the sales chatter, that’s pretty much the conclusion we came to as soon as it was announced that Dollhouse and TSCC were going to be on Friday nights, where shows go to die. We speculated then, as now, that these shows were being sent there to die! But we figured they’d get to air all their episodes. I still do figure that. I haven’t talked to Bill since Friday night’s numbers came out, but I imagine he’s in the same place. I don’t see them pulling the plug on TSCC to benefit Dollhouse mostly because I don’t think it winds up being any real benefit to Dollhouse.

But if FOX does pull the plug on TSCC, I will definitely adjust my mindset to think that perhaps all the sales chatter wasn’t just, sales chatter.

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Op zondag 1 maart 2009 05:34 schreef Mr.Silencer het volgende:
Volgens mij kreeg John weer eens wat warme gevoelens in zijn broek toen Cameron voorbij liep, in haar ondergoed. (28:28 - 28:36)

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Op zondag 1 maart 2009 15:08 schreef huhggh het volgende:
Wat is het nut van zo'n aflevering?

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Op zondag 1 maart 2009 22:32 schreef Mirel het volgende:
De afleveringen zelf zijn niet slecht in kwaliteit. Maar ze hebben helemaal niks met het verhaal te maken. Teveel psychologische gedoe.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 11:31 schreef FL_Freak het volgende:
Het verhaal ontwikkeld zich veel te langzaam, dadelijk zijn er weer te weinig kijkcijfers en stoppen ze er mee

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 23:45 schreef hakkersszz het volgende:
Voor de liefhebbers een mooie cap uit de laatste aflevering.
Ik heb mijn cap ook op TV.com gedumped.

Fappen maar.

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 02:17 schreef NotYou het volgende:

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En je nick staat er zo groot en opvallend overheen geplakt omdat je 't wel leuk vindt als masturberende mannen aan je denken?

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 23:45 schreef hakkersszz het volgende:
Voor de liefhebbers een mooie cap uit de laatste aflevering.
Ik heb mijn cap ook op TV.com gedumped.

Fappen maar.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 23:45 schreef hakkersszz het volgende:
Voor de liefhebbers een mooie cap uit de laatste aflevering.
Ik heb mijn cap ook op TV.com gedumped.

Fappen maar.

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Compilatie van de komende afleveringen, spoilers uiteraard

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