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Related: About this forumNoooo... They cancelled "Almost Human"
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/04/29/almost-human-canceled-fox/?google_editors_picks=trueAlmost Human starred Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as two cops, at least one a robot, who fought crime in the future. The freshman drama struggled in the ratings on Monday nights, where the last few episodes averaged about 5.6 million viewers and a mere 1.5 rating among adults 18-49 in the overnight numbers. The somewhat similarly premised CBS freshman drama series Intelligence, which stars Josh Holloway as a crime fighter with a cyber-wired brain, is still on the bubble for a renewal after likewise struggling on Mondays this season.
The decision came down on the same day Almost Human executive producer J.J. Abrams announced the cast for one of his other sci-fi projects Star Wars: Episode VII
I liked this show, and Intelligence was nowhere near as good.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)They needed to be hitting on all cylinders in the first few shows, but they didn't get there till almost the half way point of the season.
Looking at the tv land scape right now it seems clear that they should have just named the show Blade Runner, this is the year of Dawn of the Dead and Fargo tv shows after all and it looks like they will both be renewed. Also it is Fox and while good the show wasn't firefly good and that got a quick ax too.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Granted, I liked the series immediately, but that's because I am able to watch it onDemand, rather than airing dates, which allowed me to actually watch the show in order.
JoDog
(1,353 posts)with the story failing to "gel" was that Fox aired the eps out of the intended order. That meant they went from showing a close partnership between Dorian and John one week to showing them walking on eggshells with each other in the next episode. This undermined the character development.
It is disappointing to me because the show's premise had such potential.