I hate you A&E!

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I just read that they have cancelled Longmire! Such a good series and the channel's highest number of viewers and they let it go. Meanwhile they keep a crap thing like Duck Dynasty and the rest of those stupid shows.

The production company is going to shop the show to other channels, so hopefully it will be picked up. Of course the this season was left on a big cliffhanger. This reminds me of HBO and what they did with Deadwood.

[shenmue]

1. I think it's on Netflix

I agree with you, though, it's a good show and I hope some other channel picks it up.

[catchnrelease]

4. The first two seasons

Yes, the first two are on Netflix so far. I would think that they'll pick up season three also. So disappointing!

[hlthe2b]

2. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!

How could they DO that?

[hlthe2b]

3. Here's an article/link:

http://deadline.com/2014/08/longmire-cancelled-by-ae-will-be-shopped-elsewhere-826379/

‘Longmire’ Cancelled By A&E, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere

Longmire, A&E Network’s most-watched original drama series of all time, will be ending its run on the cable network after three seasons. In a surprising move, the network has opted not to renew the series for a fourth season. I hear Warner Horizon, the studio behind Longmire, will be shopping it immediately. “We would like to thank the phenomenal cast, crew and producers of Longmire, along with our partners at Warner Horizon, for their tireless work on three seasons of quality dramatic storytelling,” A&E said in a statement. “We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved together.”

In its second season, Longmire averaged nearly 6 million viewers, up 9% from Season 1. Longmire‘s viewership has dipped so far in Season 3 to 4.6 million viewers, but its lead-in, Criminal Minds repeats, is a lot weaker (-72%) than the series’ lead-in last year, original drama The Glades. The cancellation of that series got a strong reaction from fans; the axing of Longmire, which has a wide fan base, will likely not go well with them either. Longmire’s audience skews older than some other A&E dramas like Bates Motel, but it brings more eyeballs than any other scripted show on the network. Even with the decline, Longmire logged A&E’s largest viewership for any series this year behind only flagship Duck Dynasty.

There has been a drive at A+E Networks (as well as other cable network groups) to own a large portion of their scripted programming, which was also the impetus behind the launch of A+E Studios. Both Longmire and The Glades came from outside suppliers, Warner Horizon and Fox TV Studios, respectively.

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5. Thanks for posting the link

That was the article that I read.

[Tikki]

6. I don't really understand it either...Good drama is so rare these days..

Better show up somewhere....


Tikki

[Number9Dream]

7. One of the only shows we liked... no more reason to watch A&E

Soon, I'm going to just cancel my cable TV and save money.

[madfloridian]

8. They have cancelled 3 shows I really liked.

Against the Wall, The Glades, and Longmire.

And look at their sorry programming they have left.

http://www.aetv.com/shows

For example:

Duck Dynasty

Duck Commander

Love Prison (?)

Brandi and Jarrod, Married to the Job

Cement Heads (really?)

Epic Ink (tattoos)

Beyond Scared Straight

Just a few.

Big Smo

[catchnrelease]

9. A pathetic line up

I never watched The Glades but I know it was really popular and people were upset when it was cancelled. I don't know anything about Against the Wall. But when I'd watch Longmire and see the commercials for the other shows on A&E I would always think 'I hope these shows don't go outside of the US'. I am so embarrassed to think that people in other countries see this crap as representative of Americans or even just what we want to watch.

The little bits of what I've seen of those shows is all people that appear to be ignorant, yelling at each other, acting like fools, etc. What enjoyment can anyone get out of watching that stuff?

And they cancel Longmire and The Glades. smh

[yellowdogintexas]

10. I loved 'The Glades' and it ended on a HUGE cliffhanger

Now Longmire.

I hope Netflix or another network picks them both up. I also saw that the star of Glades has been cast in a new show on USA network.

Even if we just had a TV movie somewhere that gave closure on The Glades that would help

[SoCalDem]

11. I hated it too, but Satisfaction is turning out to be a good show

Longmire was a good show, but it was one that required attention span, and apparently A & E and many other networks are looking for the all-important demographic...12-15 yr old boys with short attention spans

Longmire would be a good fit for TNT or Lifetime.. Here's hoping they pick it up.. The stars on it are not big-ticket actors, and the location is not that tricky

[madfloridian]

12. A&E and Lifetime, LMN, have the same owners now.

I was looking it up because LMN used to have movies during the day. Some were good, some were not....but they were mostly movies. Now LMN during the day is Killer Kids and other similar shows..all day long.

I have noticed changes on Lifetime also.

Longmire would fit into USA or TNT very well. Fingers crossed someone picks the show up.

Yes, Satisfaction has surprised me. Kind of strange, but good acting and interesting plot.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I've hated A&E for about 15 years, which is when

they stopped showing British, Australian, and Canadian dramas and arts documentaries and switched over the all crap, all the time.

It was on A&E in the old days that I discovered such great British series as "Tenko," "A Touch of Frost," "Midsomer Murders," "Silent Witness," "Dalziel and Pascoe," "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries," and "Halifax, FP" (the last one is Australian).

Even earlier, do you know that Bravo started as a channel specializing in foreign films?

[catchnrelease]

14. You're right

I definitely remember when you could go to A&E and Bravo for interesting programming vs network crap. They were 'down' at the end of the list of stations on the cable we had then, along with Sundance channel and IFC. You could usually find something decent to watch among those channels.

I had mostly given up watching tv for awhile and then went to A&E to look for something and was shocked at all the crap that's now there. Same for History Channel, Discovery etc. Who watches all this junk? (When I stayed with my Mom for a week it was like torture as all she wanted to watch was 'Pickers' (American Pickers I think?) and the Pawn shop guys. Her excuse is that she's 88 and her mind is going! sigh)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. My mother used to watch CNN or the Weather Channel for hours on end

and you know how much they repeat.

What finally turned her off to CNN was after Michael Jackson died. She barely knew who he was and got annoyed at the three days of 24/7 coverage.