Private Practice greenlights full series
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The spin-off from Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, has been greenlighted to a full series by ABC.
It is currently the most successful new show of the Fall season.
In the US new series are never guaranteed a full run, until they have performed well in their first outings. Practice has held around 12m viewers, with wins in the 18-49 demographic. It will air in Australia on Seven next year.
Meanwhile sitcom Big Bang Theory for CBS has also won a full season. Nine has this for 2008.
Other approvals so far are Gossip Girl (Foxtel) and The Unit, which although not new, was only ordered for 13 eps and has been holding up well with 11m viewers. The following allows it to have a full series.
But the news is not so encouraging for Bionic Woman, which while tentatively viewed as a hit just lost 2m viewers this week, down to 8.5m after a strong opening of around 14m.
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The very first commercial advertising this show was enough to tell me it was not a show for me. I grew up with the original Bionic Woman and 6 Million Dollar Man which were originals in the 70’s – even though a bit tame for today’s society, they were much better and popular.
Hollywood has obviously run out of ideas for fresh new shows and thought remaking an old show will get people interested. Didnt do such thing for me and must be the same for thousands of viewers.
Heroes should return to 8.30pm timeslot either wednesday or thursday night.
You do realize that Bionic Woman is a remake of an older TV series of the same name, right? 😛
I’m surprised it’s taken people that long to realise that Bionic Woman is, in fact, just a shameless by-numbers remake of “Alias”.
The Bionic Woman has been dropping badly since it’s second week when it lost 30% of it’s premiere audience. Now it’s down to 8.5m viewers you can sense the axe is coming.