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"Shark" Cancelled?!

TedShatner10

TedShatner10

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Oh shit it seems that Shark (James Woods' star wagon) has inexplicably been given the axe.:o

While Shark was not the best television show in the world, it's cancellation is still disappointing and frustrating to hear, with this being another reason why Moron Moonves should be booted off of the CBS board of directors for killing all the golden gooses in a misplaced effort for demographs (the cancellation of Moonlight annoyed millions as well).

The mighty CSI franchies won't last forever, the moribund L&O franchise is seemingly on life support, so why is CBS knocking off relatively new popular shows like Shark and Moonlight who both could've drawn in 11+ million viewers easily until 2011? Shark was objectively doing well ratings wise against the odds of retarded timeslot change and the fecking Writer's Strike (mainly brought about by the greed and obstinance of the studios to begin with.

Oh well it was great while it lasted, I've still got many Friday nights of Shark ahead of me, and at least Jeri Ryan could be a guest star on either NCIS or any L&O and CSI show in the relatively near future, and as far fetched as it seems she could have a stab at being cast as a villainess in Britain's Doctor Who (many UK sci-fi fans would squee at that). :rommie:
 
CBS should never of moved the show's timeslot and in the end despite getting around 10million+, it was the poor demo that sunk the show which had gotten to be around the levels of 2.0/2.1 so CBS axed it.

Still I think if left alone in the season 1 time slot, SHARK's ratings would of held at a level to warrant a 3rd season.
 
im glad five have already started showing it, they might not have gotten around to it, if they hadnt
 
The circustances surrounding Shark's cancellation seem to be a mixture of terrible luck (Writer's Strike) and CBS incompetence/skullduggery rather than a genuine decline in objective popularity, with demographs being a curious yardstick when Shark was still having solid ratings inspite of the apparent sabotage.
 
It appears that Billy Campbell is back in the season finale, playing Sebastian's arch-enemy and serial killer Wayne Callison! And not only that, he appears to have designs on Stark's teenage daughter! If indeed this is the final season, then God only knows how this is gonna wrap up!
 
A dramatic season final that probably never gets resolved...:(

Shark's cancellation seems so abrupt and artificial when it would've trucked on for a few more seasons with little hassel, and retained better ratings than expected in the face of moving it to bad timeslots. What is happening to CBS?

Apart from greenlighting the CSI franchise and NCIS it seems like Leslie Moonves is generally speaking a liability and CBS was very successful during the early 2000s inspite of Mr. Moonves' blundering (with the show producers/creators working with him being the real talent, bravely fighting a delaying action against Les Moonves's longterm goal of dumbing down the network).

And Jeri Ryan will probably be blamed for Shark suddenly getting canned. :p
 
Of all the no-brainers this season, this is probably the worst decision of the lot.

It's worrying if shows like Shark can be canned at the drop of a hat.

Taxi for Mr Moonves please.......
 
I heard that part of the reason why Shark was canned was because James Woods was a big pain in the ass.
 
I got into Shark when Jeri Ryan was given a lot more to do in the last dozen episodes of the first season (with her screentime stolen by that fucking daughter), and she has a more central role so far in the second season.

And James Woods being an ass could be correct, since I heard many rumours he disliked the long shooting hours...
 
It that were the case, they should have tried replacing him. Criminal Minds survived without Mandy Patinkin.

Of course the show's name might be a problem!
 
Or maybe Leslie Moonves should be replaced? :techman:

James Woods supposedly being a friend of Les Moonves was not enough to prevent Shark's blatantly contrived and unnecessary cancellation. :alienblush:

And while ratings decline, plugs are pulled on decent dramas and company stocks plummet, Mooves is lining his pocket (another reason why unfetted American capitalism is overrated).
 
Angel4576 said:
It that were the case, they should have tried replacing him. Criminal Minds survived without Mandy Patinkin.

Of course the show's name might be a problem!
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Woods was too central to Shark to survive without him. I don't watch Criminal Minds but the few episodes I've seen make it more out to be more of an ensemble show. At least more than Shark is anways.
 
A show devoted to glorifying prosecutorial misconduct? If that's what it was, it was on the air far too long. And if that wasn't what the show was about, blame the PR for keeping this James Woods fan from ever watching a minute of the episode. (I would even have liked to see Alexis Cruz too, as well as Ryan.)
 
Good new though, Discovery still has Shark Week.

I was hoping the show was a live action Jabberjaw, and was disappointed to see the only stinky fish on the show was James Woods.

That's when it JUMPED THE SHARK for me.
 
stj said:
A show devoted to glorifying prosecutorial misconduct? If that's what it was, it was on the air far too long.
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That's pretty much all it was. He cut corners as a defense attorney and did the same as a prosecutor. He even framed a murderer for a murder that never happened. A girl killed herself and he got the body fixed to make it seem a serial killer who he couldn't get a conviction on in court.
 
Jack Bauer said:
stj said:
A show devoted to glorifying prosecutorial misconduct? If that's what it was, it was on the air far too long.
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That's pretty much all it was. He cut corners as a defense attorney and did the same as a prosecutor. He even framed a murderer for a murder that never happened. A girl killed herself and he got the body fixed to make it seem a serial killer who he couldn't get a conviction on in court.
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A ruthless defense attorney that bended the rules is going to be a ruthless prosecutor that bends the rules, a logical conclusion. Stark is a pretty obnoxious character but at least he didn't lure Wayne into a shrinkwrap lined room, sedated him, slit his throat and then chopped him up into twelve pieces. ;)
 
^^^Sounds like an implied comparison to Dexter, which is an interesting point. For me, the interesting thing about Dexter is not the serial killing (which they don't have either the desire or the nerve to show in detail.) It is the contrast between his constant struggle in daily life to do the right thing by his girl friend and his sister and justice by his dead father's code, despite his emotional handicaps. (The moral nature of a father who teaches a mentally ill son to be a vigilante instead of getting psychiatric help remained unexplored in the novels or in the first season.)

There's also the contrast between other characters who conspicuously don't put the effort into a moral life that serial killer Dexter does! Matthews and LaGuerta put office politics above justice. Lawman Doakes is himself a murderer. Vince is shamelessly amoral, albeit ineffective. Even Angel is more of a moral failure in his private life than Dexter!
 
A show about rule-breaking prosecutors after several dozen shows about rule-breaking defense attorneys? No way!
 
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