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NBC Signs Do Not Resuscitate Order for "Trauma"
Time of death: 7:59 PM October 28. NBC has canceled their freshman drama Trauma, of interest here at AfterElton.com because of gay paramedic Tyler Briggs, who had such a touching coming out scene this past Monday.
The show has been plagued by mediocre ratings since the premiere, but had shown a slight uptick during this week's Halloween episode where Tyler and San Francisco's Castro neighborhood featured prominently. And it was seen as a good sign when NBC announced that they were keeping it on their schedule through November sweeps. Despite these positive indicators, the plug was pulled on ordering a full season last night.
Tyler and Boone may never resolve their issues. Conventional wisdom has NBC showing the remaining seven episodes through their broadcast of the Winter Olympics. They'll use the promotional high from the Olympic broadcast to launch their spring lineup. The cancellation coincides neatly with an increased order for Chuck, bringing that series to 19 episodes, which seems about right for a season with an Olympic broadcast. Trauma was an old-school drama, with location shoots and special effects. The pilot episode, complete with the helicopter crash, was rumored to have run $4m. Regular episodes were ringing the cash register for $2.2m each, which is probably what ultimately killed it.
This can't have been cheap, and even NBC doesn't deny that accountants run the network.
For those keeping track, I'm showing three major cancellations this fall for the broadcast networks: Trauma and Southland on NBC, both with innovative gay characters, and The Beautiful Life on The CW, with a horrible gay character. Just like that, using GLAAD's numbers, we've gone from 3% of network primetime to 2.5%. Submitted by on Thu, 2009-10-29 09:30. |
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This sucks. I just watched
Booo!
Blasted!
"The show has been plagued
It is cheaper.
I think Leno will be to blame for other cancellations
By giving Leno the end of prime time I think that will be the downfall of a lot of shows. Ratings aside, both Southland and Trauma belong in that later time slot. Also NBC's Mercy could probably benefit from the later time.
I can't help but feel that if all three shows aired when Leno's show is on that it would have given them an improvement in the ratings. What parent wants to watch a show with blood, guts and adult situtations when their child is still watching TV with them?
And then there were two.
Well, NBC has just lost another hour of my viewing time. I'm now down to only two hours a week watching their network. I only have Mercy, The Office, and 30 Rock left. Since it's highly likely Mercy will be the next show to get the axe, I suspect I'll be down to one hour soon. The sucky thing is I actually *liked* Trauma and looked forward to it every week, unlike Mercy, which has it's moments but overall isn't that great. /sigh
At least I still have a little hope that Southland will be picked up by TNT. I don't really see the point in continuing to watch Trauma knowing it will be ending.
"It's weird. It's just different. It's not men. It's just him. It's only him." - Ianto Jones
I'm down to one hour out of geek loyalty.
Heroes
I still like Heroes
In its first season, Heroes was placed on a lofty pedestal with some unrealistic expectations but I don't think it deserves the extreme level of criticism that it's been getting lately. I've liked some episodes and characters more than others but overall, I'd still give it a positive endorsement.
I think Chuck is the only other NBC show I still plan to follow regularly, whenever it gets back on the air.
Ahh...Heroes
Is there any chance
Is there any chance this will get picked up by another network or channel? I remember there were talks about selling Southland to TNT, so it might happen with Trauma too, right? I'm trying to stay positive here, but yeah, I know it's kinda unlikely. I really liked Tyler's coming out episode too. This sucks!
Oh well, at least they will air the rest of the episodes, so that's something..
Harvey Milk: You gotta give 'em hope.
Budget's too high for TNT
Not a whisper...
Ahhh...thas a shame.
guests will go where now?
NBC
What's the mother***ker wrong with NBC???
Trauma on Syfy
Since NBC owns the strangely-renamed Syfy (Sci-Fi) channel, they should use Trauma to replace Stargate Universe which is so boring and has no characters interesting enough to care about. It makes you wish the ship had plunged into the star and been destroyed.
It sounds good idea to replace Trauma in Syfy
enjoying SGU a lot
Totally disagree. I'm enjoying Stargate Universe a lot. It's way more character-driven than previous Stargate series but I actually find that a refreshing change. I think the ratings have been pretty good for SGU so far. The Friday night companion series Sanctuary has been quite good as well.
Trauma is too expensive for basic cable and besides, it's not in the sci-fi genre.
Me, too
I dearly love SGU. It's my 'appointment' viewing for the week here. We get to see it on Tuesday so it's SGU at 8pm and then Chuck at 9pm. It's a perfect two hours of TV viewing. The previous Stargate shows were a guilty pleasure, but this one is so different and has learned so much from Battlestar Galactica that it has me gripped.
I have a deep passion for Robert Carlyle as an actor and tremendous appreciation of his bum from The Full Monty, but the character he's creating on SGU is totally fascinating. He's able to be revolting and compelling at the same time and that's such a difficult balancing act to pull off for an actor.
I'm not quite a fanboy about the series, but I think I'm a fan-man.
I would agree with that
Syfy not strictly sci-fi, Stargate Universe {zzz...}
Um, not to point out the obvious, but Syfy produces and runs movies about rock creatures, giant sea monsters, and dragons, not to mention Ghost Hunters - none of which have anything to do with the sci-fi genre, so Trauma not being sci-fi isn't a barrier to it being on the Syfy channel.
As far as SGU goes, being the third series in a well established show "universe", Stargate Universe needed to step up the action and stories. Instead they did what the last Star Trek series, Enterprise, did, which is turn into a total yawn-fest by becoming more simplistic than its predecessors and dumbing down the action for an audience already well versed in the lingo and setting of the show. Snooze.... snore.... yawn.... sorry even writing about it makes me bored-to-death drowsy. :P
I agree Sanctuary is entertaining. Then again, it's not predictable.
sci-fi label
sci-fi
I would agree only that comic books include sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Otherwise Syfy being more than just sci-fi is specific to the sci-fi channel. Sci-fi sections of bookstores are limited to actual science fiction (whether comic-book, anime, or standard fare). Sci-fi conventions are limited to science fiction. Sci-fi film festivals are as well. Fantasy including high adventure is its own category in bookstores, conventions, and film festivals. As is Horror. Comic-con covers comic books so it can cover any and all genres including sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. There of course can be items that are sci-fi genre that are also fantasy, horror and/or comic books, but Syfy shows traditional fantasy and horror without any sci-fi component. They also show things set in contemporary times so Trauma would fit in. And some people would say being set in San Francisco would qualify Trauma as a horror show. :P Have you seen the housing prices in San Fran? :P
I've only watched the first 4 episodes
but it seems to me that they are trying to go too big with the big gory accidents all the time. There has been a big car accident, a workplace shooting, someone driving through a market, an arm torn off, and a pole through someone's abdomen with major vascular surgery in the field. I wish they scaled back on the big dramatic accidents and focused more on the EMTs and what they actually do more of on a regular basis, which is far less dramatic calls. (and it would save $)
I realize that it is a tv show but if they don't go all out allof the time, then we can learn even more about these characters that have already shown to be pretty interesting. Instead of trying to fix the show to get it better ratings, NBC would rather just cancel it and keep Leno. I guess NBC is showing everyone how to destroy a network. Just my 2 cents.