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A day after FX’s Sons of Anarchy returned with 4.13 million viewers, the network’s new drama Terriers debuted with 1.6 million total viewers last night, 659,000 of them in the adults 18-49 demographic. This marks the lowest-rated drama series debut for FX, which was surprising given the show’s pedigree (it hails from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and Ocean’s Eleven writer Ted Griffin, mostly positive reviews and extensive marketing campaign (though I have to admit I didn’t care much for the snarling dog, the title of the show was confusing enough). FX is not giving up on the new series though. To help Terriers get traction, the network will rebroadcast the premiere episode after Sons of Anarchy next Tuesday.
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Been seeing ads before movies for at least a month. Never looked very interesting. Doesn’t help that it didn’t have any discernible female appeal based on ads focusing on the two leads who look like schlubs.
This show BLOWZ. You could change the title to THE SOPRANOS. And it would still BLOW.
This is plain and simple, an utter marketing fail. I thought it was a reality show about Terriers, the dog breed. And frankly, nothing about the campaign says anything different. If it had been called UNTITLED PI SHOW in generic lettering with no graphic and a subheading of “From the Creator of the Shield” I would have tuned in, or at least had some interest. FX might have a great marketing department, they dropped the ball on this one…
Disappointed in Terriers. At first glance the poster felt like a reality series about Terriers. Only when I watched SONS OF ANARCHY premiere did I understand this was a new drama series. Love Donal and the guy from True Blood, and creator Ted Griffin and Shawn is incredibly talented. I wanted to like this but it was pretty flat. Will try next few episodes to see if it’s got legs.
Good show but “Terriers” is the worst title ever. The word “Terrier” has a very negative connotation for many people, that of the annoying yapping ankle biter that you wanted to avoid. Putting a dog in an advertisement, did further damage to any potential viewership.
“From the writer of OCEANS 11″??????? Who on earth cares? That movie stinks as bad as this show.
I like the show – it’s Chinatown meets The Big Lebowski.
Disappointing to say the least. The marketing and title aside, this show just plodded along for the whole hour. I was hoping for some witty dialogue and the previews had me hopeful, but even that was lacking. It better pick up its game, otherwise I don’t see a season 2.
Great show, bad title. I watched 5 episodes last night and really enjoyed it, clever writing and talented cast, stick with this one, it’s worth it.
Donal Logue was great in The Tao of Steve. Donal and the other actors are quite good, but Terriers was just too derivative and predictable. I was hoping to see a terrier dog (I have a terrier mix dog)when I tuned in. I might give it another watch as Donal is worth watching when he connects with people emotionally.
I stumbled across this show by accident after SOA and I found the script to be very well written and the show to be surprisingly well acted with an obvious chemistry already established by the cast. It DID have a Big Lebowski feel to it which isn’t a bad thing. Much has been written how the title of the series does no favors for the success expected by FX, however, with SOA as a lead-in and word of mouth I can see the numbers taking an upswing. It is better than a lot of big network offerings so far.
Seeing people say it “plodded along” and it was “predictable” makes my head hurt. Watch this and support good TV, quit watching fucking reality shows.
Also, people calling Rene, I mean Michael Raymond-James needs to sit their ass down in front of the TV and watch True Blood. Also, great cable TV doesn’t need to be “edgy”, can we please find new words to describe a show that don’t include “dark”, “edgy” or any other variations of those words? Thanks. It’s contrived bullshit. Terriers proves you don’t need “dark” and “edgy” to be very good.
WORST NAME EVER for a TV series that isn’t about dogs. What were they thinking?
WORST NAME EVER for a TV show that isn’t about dogs.
I saw the name of the show, saw the dogs in it and thought it was a total failure. Sorry, I put two and two together and got 44 on this one. Makes no sense.
Obviously the folks not liking the title have never owned a Terrier. damn best dogs on earth. Most people are like the black lab, golden stupid types.Never been in a fight, never smuggled dope, been shot at, worse hit. the series does not need a comic relief canine, the actors are the Terriers. One of the scruff types, and obviously a smooth hair version. Not loved by the masses, but making it every day by wit grit and endurance. Terrier is as terrier does. This show works, will be sorry to see it go; hope it sticks around to piss off those people who don’t like/understand Terriers. Sod the lot of em.