And by some miracle...

[rogueslayer452]

NBC saves/picks up Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a sixth season! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I'm honestly still reeling from everything that's happened, to be honest. It has been quite a rollarcoaster of emotions during the last 48 hours, from the announcement of FOX cancelling B99 to hearing about all the fan campaigning and overwhelming response about the news, to the possibility of other networks wanting to renew it only to find out that they all passed on the opportunity, therefore our hopes being dashed, and then, lo and behold, NBC being our savior and reviving the B99 for another season. It makes sense, though, considering that all of Mike Schur's other shows are on NBC (Parks and Recreation and The Good Place), so it's the perfect fit tbh. It'll be getting a 13-episode order, and no matter whether it'll be considered the last season or not, I'm just thankful that it got picked up.

Granted, there's been a lot of emotions lately as the announcements of which shows are renewed and which are cancelled, because it is that time of year again and it's never a fun time, and unfortunately Friday was a bloodbath of shows being cancelled left and right.

All of this has brought up the never-ending rants/discussions/debates once again about how antiquated the Nielsen rating system is and how television needs to change the way it perceives the viewership of their audience, especially in terms of adapting to how technology has changed and needing to take into account viewership in other countries (including making streaming easily accessible and available for them that isn't just US-based, which is a huge part of the problem). It's a broken outdated system that traditional media needs to get rid of and find a better, more efficient way of calculating the numbers and views for shows from all platforms worldwide.

Comments

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

Yep. Off the top of my head, I can think of three shows that have been around long past their expiration date but they're money makers with big fandoms so they keep on going.

I also wish that creators/showrunners would treat seasons like it would be their last.
I can def get behind this. There are so many shows with huge cliffhangers that never came back. I think that so many of them know they're on the line too when they decide to do this big cliffhanger as what turns out to be the series finale. Lucifer did this. The showrunners said they did a cliffhanger so FOX would have choice but to not cancel them. I'm like WHAT IN THE WHAT?! And FOX is known to cancel shows because they didn't do well for five seconds. I'm like OMFGGGGG.

Also, turns out I lied to myself about not being butthurt about the Lucifer cancellation because I haven't been this butthurt about a show's cancellation in a long time lmao.

Yessssssssss. I mean, I love me some CW shows, but damn so many of them have the same tropes, the same exact mistakes... It almost seems like there's a list of things they have to meet just for it to be on the network sometimes XD And same with YA fiction. It's like there's a thing that went over well-ish once and everyone is either jumping on board or told to jump on board when everyone is like NNNOOOOO. TV shows and YA fiction have been doing this with love triangles for some time. I'm like, poop or get off the pot!!! lol.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I think that so many of them know they're on the line too when they decide to do this big cliffhanger as what turns out to be the series finale.

I hate this so much, because while I can kinda understand the thought process behind it, it's such a horrible tactic that always backfires because it hurts nobody but the show itself, and also the fans.

One of my shows that got cancelled last year did this, which I'm still scratching my head as to why. They had only just barely been given another season previously, and they admitted that it was due to the overwhelming fan presence wanting more, which should've been a clue that they needed to continue progressing the story further and make it so at least something was somewhat resolved in case they don't get renewed again. But of course, nothing happened all season long and it left us with a cliffhanger that made all the fans confused and frustrated. So, even though I was sad it was cancelled, it did make sense since the season went absolutely nowhere fast, when they should have been hustling to try and make a completed story, especially when they knew that they were already on the line as it was. Ugh. :/

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It doesn't make any sense tbh. Why purposely go out on a cliffhanger?!

What show was it? I was going to say The Exorcist lol, but that got cancelled this year and I don't know if they went out on a cliffhanger since I still have the series finale on my DVR waiting for me to watch.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

What show was it?

It was Stitchers, which was on Freeform. It was a show that didn't get enough attention and was struggling a lot since it debuted in ratings, though it had a small but strong and passionate online fanbase. They barely got renewed for a third season, and when they did they attributed the renewal to the vocal fanbase that wanted more of the show, which should've been a sign that they were going to work on actually progressing the plot forward. But once S3 rolled around, none of that happened. It seemed like it was less plot and more romantic nonsense for, well, all the characters which wasn't like that in previous seasons. And for for someone who actually enjoyed the show for what it was, even I was annoyed with the direction it was taking. So it didn't come as a surprise, at least to me, when it was cancelled. I wasn't surprised, just disappointed that they had an interesting premise and plot but did almost nothing with it, just had little bits and pieces spread out throughout the series.

The third season ended on, yet again, another cliffhanger that they always ended up doing, tempting us for something that could've led to something more but we know that it was probably going to take an entire season before we got any answers, which was barely enough to move the plot along.