WB Cancels Angel

Ray Radlein writes "Despite a 36% increase over last year's comparable ratings, the WB Network announced today that they are cancelling Angel as of the end of this season." Unfortunate since this season was stronger than the last. " The link also makes taunting mentions of movie plans.

Replacement.

[saintlupus]

the WB Network announced today that they are cancelling Angel as of the end of this season.

"They will be using the timeslot for another unfunny pile of shit from the Wayans brothers."

--saint

In other news...

[shfted!]

In other news, dyslexic engineers are wondering how they'll survive without Angle!

I thought I would do this...

[El Camino SS]

So, while we're on the subject, anyone remember this show called Farscape? /Gets a flaming arrow through the window, see a screaming horde descending on the house

Joss Whedon comments

[Anonymous Coward]

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." - Joss Whedon (on Angel's cancelation)

OH MY

[nomadic]

I think I speak for the majority of people on slashdot when I say, in response to this momentous news, who cares?

Must be a misspelling

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't think why this would be news for a geek unless you were actually refereeing to the canceling of Angle: PBS's acclaimed geometry program.

Oh, you had to do it....

[El Camino SS]

You mentioned a cancelled show on Slashdot!

Quiet! You'll wake up the Farscape fans!

Quick, delete the thread!

Spike!

[soundofthemoon]

Now maybe they'll give Spike his own show. He da man!

Re:Replacement.

[Anonymous Coward]

Dave Chapelle - "...Wayans? There are MORE of them?!"

Re:Oh, you had to do it....

[Maserati]

It's a Joss Whedon project, you'll wake up the goram Firefly fans !

obligatory link

[Anonymous Coward]

obligatory link [theonion.com]

Re:critical news

[TCQuad]

I don't know a single soul that watches that show.

That's because we sold them to get the Farscape mini-series.

My idea for how Angel can be saved

[Nick of NSTime]

Start the new season with the same cast and about 20 demons. Then, week to week, a demon is voted off the show and killed.

To late...

[Cyno01]

Funny, i woke up a few minutes ago. NOW BRING BACK FARSCAPE, FIREFLY, FUTURAMA, FAMILY GUY AND OTHER GOOD SHOWS STARTING WITH 'F' GODDAMNIT!!! *proceeds with random threatening rant about studio execs, conspiracy about shows starting with f, my big fat obnoxious fiance, mad mad house, scare tactics american idol crap...*

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Hektor_Troy]

Yeah, Willow with Xander as a side kick.

Willow the Chicklayer and Xander the Bricklayer.

Re:Spike!

[Anonymous Coward]

They did: its called "Angel"

Re:Spike!

[T-Kir]

Imagine that, Spikes own show on SpikeTV, maybe Spike Lee would have a heart attack if that happened?

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Scrameustache]

REALLY need to do a series about Willow..

Yeah! They could call it Charmed! It would rock!

; )

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Gothic_Walrus]

*sighs*

Only on Slashdot would a comment about Alyson Hannigan [actressarchives.com] be modded as "Insightful." We're all such geeks...

Seriously, there are other women out there. We have no chance with her. Give up already.

Spare me

[Froze]

All you yung'uns think that a cancelled tv show is sucha tragedy! Why back in my day we were happy to see shows cancelled, like laverne and shirley, leave it to beaver and happy days - bah, good riddance!

I propose that you all stop wasting your time with all of this moaning about TV watchin' and get busy doing something productive! Like posting to slashdot.

Re:Spike!

[mhifoe]

Spike is a good character. It's just a shame he talks like Dick Van Dyke [imdb.com].

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Re:Say it Ain't so!

[uptownguy]

They REALLY REALLY need to do a series about Faith...

Tru dat!

Re:OH MY

[nehril]

Very little appears on the WB that doesn't make me wish I hadn't bought my nice TV.

I always didn't think that enough negatives wouldn't not work. weren't you not flaming, or just unsupporting the decision??

(j/k, I do totally agree with you. I think).

Good.

[xigxag]

This'll free up another hour of WB time for fine family programming like, "7th Heaven: The Mary Camden Crack Ho Years."

I can hardly wait.

Re:A Sad Day

[Fractal Dice]

I dunno ... I liked the new D&D (Dilbert-and-Demons) format. At first the show seemed like a poor clone of Forever Knight and I had given up on it a couple of years ago but was lured back this year by the strange and frightening parallels to my company (it's nice to think that not all executives are evil ... they're just bloodsucking vampires trapped in a corrupt system ... but they do have souls).

Re:I thought I would do this...

[CrazyJoel]

Maybe they cancel shows because you're only watching them on DVD. Maybe if you'd watch some commercials now and then...

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Scrameustache]

Any show with an episode about Nazis and Vampires, in my mind, has jumped the shark.

Oh yeah, Angel was a fine show until they added vampires on there...

Obscure reference

[Gorimek]

Do you know what's a good day to cancel a show? Any day besides Valentine's Day! I mean, what, were they running low on dramatic irony?

Re:I thought I would do this...

[Anonymous Coward]

What? No 2001? No Ice Pirates? No Krull? No Alien? No Spaceballs? No Bicentenial Man? NO FORBIN PROJECT!? NO TRON?! NO TRON!? NO TRON!?!?

Your sci-fi collection barely ranks above the Nerd-poser level.

Oh, and you forgot the movie "hackers" under the "documentary" section. Oh wait, my bad. That wouldn't be sci-fi, that was hella accurate...

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Antarius]

Ever since they killed off his character, I always wanted to see them bring back Doyle, played by Glenn Quinn [imdb.com].

Maybe now is the time?

Then again, I'm sure there is only so much of a character dancing with a vaccuum cleaner that we can take...

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[Grendel Drago]

OH my gravy runneth over. Thanks for the link, dude. And a big BITE ME for the dry cleaning bill...

--grendel drago

You people are clueless

[slashdot_commentator]

Angel, Firefly, ______(fill in the blank), rabid fanbase, show is profitable, they're all killed. Why? The shows do not attract the type of viewer (stupid teens) that attract big time advertisers.

Now you want to start a new show, based on a character from a show that failed to attract the desired advertiser demographic. What is wrong with this picture? As an intellectually snobbish geek, I must say I am embarrassed by the stupidity of your proposal.

Lets sit in on a hypothetical studio meeting discussing a Willow spinoff by network executives who are as stupid as you:

(*ACTION*)

CHIEF EXEC: We need new shows that will attract most of the 18-25 year olds in the country, so we have advertisers beating down our doors to give us money!

EXEC #1: I know! Buffy was the most popular show among the 30-45 year old age group when it ended. If we create a spinoff show based on the Willow character, we can attract all those OLD fans. That will chase those advertisers away...

EXEC #2: And Alyson Hannigan will be turning 30 this year. She's already starred in a movie where she gets married. Yeah, all those teenaged boys lust after aged women. And all those teenaged girls will tune so they can get tips on how to appear as matronly as Willow. (Or how to appear as an adult behaving like a ditzy immature girl.) After all, teenaged girls want to desired by teenaged boys more than anything. Everyone knows that only middle-aged men lust after Britney Spears. (Yuk.)

CHIEF EXEC: Great idea! Let's put that show into production. In two years, spend millions of dollars, we can lock up the entire 30-45 audience, and no advertiser will pay for that show!

(*CUT*)

Congratulations. You have just demonstrated you are even more stupid than TV executives.

But fret not. I think there is a potential scenario where there could be a Willow spinoff. Since you've demonstrated how mentally challenged you are, let me spell it out for you:

(*ACTION*)

CHIEF EXEC: We need new shows that will attract most of the 18-25 year olds in the country, so we have advertisers beating down our doors to give us money!

EXEC #1: I know! Buffy was the most popular show among the 30-45 year old age group when it ended. We'll create a spinoff show based on the Willow character!

CHIEF EXEC: Are you a total moron?!?! The only audience it will attract are the rabid AGED fans we don't give a damn about. We'll go bankrupt!

EXEC #1: Not if its properly executed! We can't have those crappy writers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Subtle humor, metaphors to adult crisis, sharp dialogue, good plots, long story arcs; they can only attract mediocre old people with the attention span to appreciate that sort of crap.

No, we'll hire all those writers from "Sabrina the Teenaged Witch"! Vacuous comedy, inane, irrelevant plots. That show did rather well in the teenaged & pre-teen audiences. And best of all, they're out of work now, we'll get them for a song...

CHIEF EXEC: You talk a good game, but there's no way Alyson Hannigan will appeal to kids. My God, she's already taking roles as a married woman.

EXEC #2: Chief, don't worry about that. We'll just make Hannigan the head crone of the coven. We'll hire really young actresses to play the buxom, sexually dripping, apprentice witches. We'll keep shifting all the script plots and lines to focus on the young hotties. Its done on all those sucessful shows. Remember "Party of Five" started out focusing on the older sister, what's that crone's name... Nieve Campbell. But then they put on Jennifer Love Hewitt. Ratings skyrocketed. Campbell disappeared, and nobody noticed.

EXEC #3: Why don't we hire Jennifer Love Hewitt instead of Alyson Hannigan?

EXEC #2: Nah, we already have a head crone. We have to hire Alyson as the head crone because teenagers are incredibly stupid viewers. They're don't have the intellectual capacity of imagining Jenni

Re:Say it Ain't so!

[rowdent]

That's not a nice thing to say about Anya...