Crusoe

[zulaya]

Well, I think the last episode of Crusoe aired this evening.

I'm really bummed. My kids LOVED this show (they are 12 and 13). Actually DH and I liked it, too! How many shows can you say that everyone likes to sit down and watch it without someone just "tolerating" it?

I really hope that another network picks it up and gives it a chance. NBC really didn't give this show a chance, bouncing it from Fridays to Saturdays.

We need a fun story like this so it's not all crime drama. Don't get me wrong...I'm a big fan of Num3ers, NCIS, the Mentalist...but I'm going to miss Crusoe!

Anyone else?

 

[Soarin08]

I watched it a few times. Pretty good show.

 

[bicker]

We watched it a few times too, and gave up on it.

Think of television like your investment portfolio: How long are you going to stick with a stock for a company that couldn't manage to sell their product even basking in the limelight of the new season promotions, and couldn't do anything to make its product better? You don't throw inventory you built up, out, of course. You let it sit on a back shelf hoping you'll sell some of it.

That's pretty much what has happened with Crusoe. It got remarkably bad ratings from the start (1.6/5 !!! for 18-49), and they dropped off very quickly (0.9/3 !!!!! for 18-49, by mid-November). It was at that point that the network gave up on the program, moving it to the back shelf (Saturday).

One of the problems with a show like Crusoe is that it is so expensive to make that it needs to make a lot of money from advertising to justify its existence. Given the bad ratings, what other network would be willing to spend so much money on something that did so poorly? Probably none. Sorry.

 

[PanamaMike]

This show was a mini-series.
It was planned to be only 13 episodes.
NBC has in fact "given it a chance" and aired the entire project.

 

[Micca]

I bailed on it after the 2nd or 3rd episode.

 

[bicker]

This show was a mini-series.
It was planned to be only 13 episodes.
NBC has in fact "given it a chance" and aired the entire project.

That's what I heard, originally, as well, but I've also heard: (highlight below to read)

The final episode ends with a scene some folks consider a cliff-hanger.

 

[Feralpeg]

I liked it. I was amazed at how much the guy who played Robinson Crusoe looked like Sean Bean, who played his father. Great casting!