Well, would you place Abrams with Quinn Martin, Bruckheimer, Dick Wolf or even David E. Kelley? And he's not as creatively involved with his shows in the way that Kelley or even Joss Whedon are, so these days he seems to be little more than a talent scout or a GM. What am I missing?
David On Dec 15, 2013, at 1:48 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:08 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > With what can be best described these days as a less-than-stellar TV track > > record, why doesn't Abrams focus exclusively on film? As far as I can > > tell, he hasn't been terribly hands-on with his TV projects since very > > early seasons of Lost. > > By my count, JJ has had an executive producer credit on 8 programs picked up > on broadcast television since Lost (not counting Believe). > Three of those were cancelled in their first season (Six Degrees, Undercovers > and Alcatraz) > Four were renewed for a second season or more (What About Brian, Fringe, > Person of Interest and Revolution) > One is currently in its first season, and is rated a "toss up" for renewal by > TVBTN (Almost Human). > Fringe got 5 seasons, and in my judgement was creatively good to very good. I > have never seen Person of Interest, but it is rated as certain to be renewed > by TVBTN, and is a good bet to get to at least 5 seasons. I thought > Revolution was vastly overrated last season, when it got good ratings, and is > even worse this year, when it is getting mediocre ratings. As I noted > earlier, I kind of like Almost Human, though it has a long list of haters > among Science Fiction fans. > I suppose stellar should mean something like very good or great, and it > certainly is true that none of the JJ shows have been as stellar either in > terms of ratings or quality as Lost was (though, to be fair, relatively few > shows have been as stellar as Lost was since Lost). OTOH, I think you could > argue that a record of getting at least 50% of 8 shows renewed at least once > is better than the base rate for network programs, and more than justifies > the decision by networks to keep giving his shows a shot. > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
