This must be one of "TV By The Numbers" biggest misses in a long time. Back in October they wrote:
"While [we] like to make pre-season "certain to be renewed" predictions for > shows beginning a full third season, [we] have never done so for a second > season show. That changes today. > > After watching Warner Brothers make a fortune syndicating WB sitcoms on > their air, CBS now has a second season sitcom in The Millers with which > they can ultimately tap into the syndication money fountain themselves. > They'll certainly keep the show around for at least four seasons, so The > Millers is certain to be renewed this season (and next). (For the nitpicky, > this was written and posted before The Millers premiere ratings were > known)." And, as late as this last Tuesday, they listed it as "certain to be renewed" (and it is still listed that way as of 9:56 pm PT): http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/11/cbs-predictions-after-csi-which-veteran-dramas-will-be-canceled-next/324177/ I agree it is absurd and ugly to bring Robin Williams' death into this, but Deadline does note that the decision by CBS to renew The Millers (a show I have never seen) while canceling a few others, (including a few others, like The Crazy Ones, which I either also never saw or only saw once) was controversial at the time ( https://deadline.com/2014/11/the-millers-cancelled-cbs-1201284943/) - and as TVBTN notes above, CBS was seen as favoring the show because it was looking for big bucks in syndication. Apparently that got trumped by the damage The Millers seems to have been doing to Scorpion's ratings. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The Will Arnett sitcom will shoot one more episode and an episode will air > Monday night, but the second season series is dead: > > > http://www.thewrap.com/the-millers-canceled-by-cbs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mailchimp > > I'm not going to defend the series, because it was a standard-issue CBS > multi-cam (despite its good cast), but there's in the above link a comment > from a David Kelley apologist who's always bitching about NBC cancelling > "Harry's Law" more or less intimating that Nina Tassler and/or Les Moonves > is responsible for Robin Williams' suicide by cancelling "The Crazy Ones" > instead of this show last season. God, the Internet... > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
