Flash Foward

[Disneymadhouse]

Hi here in England we had flash foward showing at the same time as in the U.S. I was gutted when it finished! Anyone know if they are planning to continue the story?
Who was Charlie talking to / about?
What happened to Janice and her baby?
Are we going to have to wait until 2015 - that was the date at the end wasn't it - until another series?

The list could go on!

Claire

 

[Handbag Lady]

Hi here in England we had flash foward showing at the same time as in the U.S. I was gutted when it finished! Anyone know if they are planning to continue the story?
Who was Charlie talking to / about?
What happened to Janice and her baby?
Are we going to have to wait until 2015 - that was the date at the end wasn't it - until another series?

The list could go on!

Claire

Nope, the show is over and done. As far as I know, there are no plans for any more.

 

[bicker]

Yup. Viewers didn't watch the show in sufficient numbers to justify continuing the story. The last ten episodes, on average, attracted less than half the number of viewers of the premiere.

This is pretty-much the same story with the current US series, The Event on NBC. (See related thread here: LINK) Again, what probably kept the shows on the air for the full season, in the first place, is that the network actually produced the series (in the case of FlashForward, ABC Studios; in the case of The Event, Universal Media Studios). However, in both cases the show's audience settled out somewhere around half of the audience of the premiere, far less than justifies renewal.

 

[Disneymadhouse]

Thanks for the replies
I can't believe it wasn't very popular but there you go i guess some people just have no taste!!

Claire

 

[bicker]

Hehe... well, at least, people have different tastes, and ours - the taste of the people who watched FlashForward - were very rare tastes.

 

[ChrizJen]

Thanks for the replies
I can't believe it wasn't very popular but there you go i guess some people just have no taste!!

Claire

I loved that show!! I was devastated when it ended!

 

[ICF]

Thanks for the replies
I can't believe it wasn't very popular but there you go i guess some people just have no taste!!

Claire

too many people here in the US dont want to watch a show that they actually have to pay attention to and watch week in and week out....

I enjoyed it a great deal, but ABC (and NBC this year with The Event) IMO do themselves no favors by taking a 3-4 month break in the middle of a season. People just dont have the attenetion span to come back to it after that long of a break. Viewers move on to other shows and half the time forget that the show is even coming back.

Plus, Science Fiction type shows have typically had a trouble finding an audience that made it worth while to keep a show on the air long term on one of the major networks.

 

[bicker]

I enjoyed it a great deal, but ABC (and NBC this year with The Event) IMO do themselves no favors by taking a 3-4 month break in the middle of a season.

Shows "don't do themselves any favors" doing two new episodes, then two reruns, then two new episodes, then two reruns. There is no way to spread 24 episodes out over 39 weeks without doing one of those two things.

It's the same story as with summer series: The American viewer is simply unwilling to reward networks for offering original dramas over the summer. (Can you say "The Philanthropist"? Can you say "The Listener"? Can you say "Mental"? Even Flashpoint has been only marginal, over the summer, and it survives on the strength of its viewership in Canada... the CBS audience is just gravy to them.)

 

[MissElizabeth]

I thought Flashforward was awful- awful dialogue, terrible acting, just poorly written. It was a poor man's Lost, IMO.

 

[SeaSpray]

We (DH, DS22, and I) were fans of Flash Forward and watched every week. We were bummed when we found out that it wasn't renewed for another season.

 

[SeaSpray]

It's the same story as with summer series: The American viewer is simply unwilling to reward networks for offering original dramas over the summer. (Can you say "The Philanthropist"? Can you say "The Listener"? Can you say "Mental"? Even Flashpoint has been only marginal, over the summer, and it survives on the strength of its viewership in Canada... the CBS audience is just gravy to them.)

We LOVED The Philanthropist!!!!!!! I can't believe that they didn't bring that one back in the fall.

 

[NMAmy]

I liked Flash Forward, too, and I was irritated with myself for breaking my rule of never, ever watching a series in its first season. If a series is well reviewed and liked for a couple of years, I'll catch up on dvd and then watch from that point forward but I'm tired of them sucking me into a story and then just cancelling the show.

 

[TwinsinCA]

I absolutely loved that show. Bad enough that a show you love is cancelled but it is worse that they left it with a cliffhanger. I guess I should be grateful they at least got one complete season and we got to see the date of the FlashForward. But there were still so many loose ends we'll never have tied up.

The last time I was this frustrated by a show being cancelled was when Reunion was axed midway through season 1.

 

[snykymom]

The problem with the show is that the Winter Olympics interrupted it for too long. They stopped showing new episodes in December, before the holidays, and then didn't start again until mid-March. By then, people had lost interest, particularly since the story line had it ending in April anyway.

I have to say I was one of them - I forgot to look for the new episodes in March.

So is anyone willing to tell me how it ends?

 

[Sadie22]

We were Flash Forward fans. It's tough when they move some of the shows we like to different nights, have lengthy hiatuses, or put them on after our bedtime. It would be great if there were a TV movie resolving the unanswered questions.