Mediaweek On The NBC Panel Front At TCA
As you probably know NBC had a “Sophomore Dramas” panel at the TCA, panel where were present Mediaweek’s Marc Berman, the Programming Insider, and Alan Frutkin, senior reporter. From their report, here’s what’s about LIFE :
Rand Ravich on the writers’ strike:
“Coming up to the strike, it got a little crazed and we were hurrying to get as many episodes done as soon as possible. And then, given more time now, we could actually plan for a longer season and plan out our story arcs more carefully.”
-The Reality:
The unfortunate prediction is not to expect much out of CHUCK, LIFE or LIPSTICK JUNGLE next season. CHUCK generated only minor interest among adults 18-49 anchoring Monday, and there is no reason to think that will change next season. Moving LIFE to Friday at 10 p.m. is a suicide mission. And LIPSTICK JUNGLE opposite CBS’ CSI: NY and ABC’s potentially blossoming DIRTY SEXY MONEY on Wednesday will have its work cut out.
We won’t come back on the move to Fridays at 10pm, we all know it’s not a good sign. But at least it seems that Ravich is still in charge and was able to plan a full season ahead, so that’s good. He’s in charge, he’s careful, so the “new look” for Dani wasn’t a new look per-se, can’t be, I have faith.
I have to say that I am still uncertain of how many episodes NBC actually ordered so far for this upcoming season. Since he said “a longer season”, and season one was 11 episodes long, I want to assume that NBC did actually order a full 22-episode season, but alas I have no faith in NBC, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they only had ordered 13 episodes once again to begin with (even though last season, before the strike, LIFE had received a full season pick-up and a total of 22 episodes were ordered).
Anyone knows how many episodes have been ordered ??