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Axed: Camp

Aussies masquerading as Yanks on summer camp forced to check out after one vacation.

2013-07-11_1437Australian-filmed US dramedy Camp has been axed by NBC.

The series filmed by Matchbox Pictures and BermanBraun in the NSW Tweed region included Rachel Griffiths, Rodger Corser, and 3 Dance Academy grads Tim Pocock, Dena Kaplan and Tom Green and revolved around a summer camp for both adults and their kids.

Its success in the US was straight down the middle as summer content, opening to mixed reviews and a reasonable 1.5 rating in the key demo and 5 million viewers and steadily dipping throughout its run.

Scripted content in the US summer this year has been overshadowed by the success of Under the Dome, which has been renewed to a second season.

The $22 million Camp consisted of 10 one-hour episodes, and there was talk it had put about $2-3 million into the local economy.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

7 Responses

  1. That was really clever NBC. Let’s use an Aussie subsidiary to make a summer show for the bargain price of $2.2 million per hour loaded up with studio overhead, travel, probably a bunch of useless studio executives and a bunch of Aussie actors doing fake accents en masse. Was there anybody from NBC with one wit of creative and commercial intelligence? It is back to the 80s mind set of Hollywood. Did the Village People do the score?

  2. What success?

    1.5 is not reasonable — and it was rapidly downhill from there. Camp finished with a 0.8 and got half the total viewers as a repeat of CSI in that slot.

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