His Schwartz wasn't big enough: Lone Star is first show canceled

I think the show might have had a chance if it came out in the winter and didn't have to compete with DWTS, MNF and an established (but overrated) CBS lineup.

 

I think it might have worked as a 10 p.m. show on FX. Kind of like an upscale version of Sons of Anarchy.

 

Get UVerse. Four shows at once. Of course, every waking moment is now spent trying to catch up on DVRed shows.

 

Raising Hope is HILARIOUS.

 

I wish they had someone better in the lead role, but I still haven't gotten over the baby sticking his head through the hole in the car in the first episode.

 

Read up on Lone Star online.

Some interesting stuff. It was never conceived as a TV show, but a one-shot TV movie that could be serialized into a running movie concept ala that Tom Selleck crap.

So the first two episodes shown were shot like it was still a movie, so higher production values, better writing, better everything. And cue the critics go gaga.

Fox liked the concept so much, they pushed the show's creator into turning it into a television show and promised the full support of the network, which they delivered in terms of promotion but pulling the plug after two episodes means they really weren't into that much.

 

This translates into "It was expensive as fuck to produce."

 

Full support of the network means putting in on after Idol beginning in January.

 

Understandable. Still, as a My Name Is Earl fan, I've thought the first two eps were funny as hell, particularly an unrecognizable Martha Plimpton channeling Joy in the role of the young grandmother.

 

BYH did you catch the Earl reference and joke in the pilot?

First episode wasn't bad, but I missed last night's. Hopeful it is an onDemand option.

 

I have last night's episode on the DVR. I think the first one was a solid B+.

 

Exactly. Then, once you build a steady audience, move it to another night. So much of the major networks' time is spent just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. NBC does it best (or worst, maybe more accurately). "The Event" looked like a horrible show. I didn't watch it, but NBC fucked around with "Heroes" so much it killed it. If you believe in a show, give it a real chance. If not, you deserve to be showing "Minute to Win It" five nights a week.