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I was just about to scribble down a third-episode verdict on Kidnapped, when lo-and-behold, it turns out they’ve decided to end it by the 13th episode. The verdict, more or less, was going to be “quite dull”, so don’t bother investing too much of your life in it if you haven’t started yet.
Still no spoilers for the benefit of UK readers, but if you want to know why they took the decision to do what they did in the US on Monday with Vanished, Ausiello has the lowdown.
PS Woo hoo! I have the Internet back!
In contrast to some of the other series that premiered last month in the US, Studio 60 has been slowly improving rather than losing its shine. While ratings haven’t been good, quality has gone up and the show is now recognisably the work of Aaron Sorkin, the man behind The West Wing.
It wasn’t looking quite so rosy last week, when the big opening sketch that was supposed to relaunch “Studio 60” turned out to be a Sorkin favourite, a Gilbert and Sullivan set piece. Oh, oh. Impressive, but lacking the vital ingredient of all comedy sketches: humour. Nonetheless, you could see how it might have worked in the context of the rest of the show – which of course we never got to see.
This week, however, things perked up.
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I’m starting to worry. Quite a number of the shows that had promise in their pilot episodes are starting to flounder by episode three. We’ve already had the wobbling of Men in Trees, Justice lost a little of its sheen before the hiatus. Now Smith, the TV-watcher’s Heat, is starting to seem a little dull.
Maybe it’s improved since the first three episodes, but for some reason, the SciFi Channel seems likely to renew the not very interesting Eureka/A Town Called Eureka.
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