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EXCLUSIVE: Things are not looking good for midseason drama The Cape. NBC just cut the order to the comic book-inspired series from 13 to 10. That means stop of production for the show, which is now wrapping Episode 10. After an OK start on Sunday earlier this month, The Cape has been sliding in its regular Monday 9 PM slot. Last night, the show drew a 1.5/4, down 6% for a series low. It is not clear if the shortened order will affect the return of The Event to the Monday 9 PM berth, currently scheduled for Feb. 28. One possible scenario floated around has The Cape finishing its 10-episode run on Feb. 28, with The Event relaunching with 2 back-to-back episodes (instead of a recap and an original) the following Monday, March 7.
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Color me shocked. Lol. The Cape sucks. Sorry. The writing is almost as bad as The Event. I’m sure that’s their next burial.
So much for these “noisy” shows. That’s the buzz word now and what everyone is picking up. Guess they haven’t noticed the top shows are Good Wife, Mentalist, NCSI and these empty high concept tent poles tank. TV, as it turns out, is not like features. You can’t throw comic book characters on the screen with lousy plots and dialogue and still make money.
The Cape is far superior to that turd The Event.
You sir are an idiot.
Also: did anyone not note: we have had horrendous disasters happen world-wide, that had us watching the news for any message that our loved ones in Japan, or in the middle east, were safe? I haven’t watched much but the news for a few weeks now. In California we had floods, we’ve had tsunami alerts & some damage, in Japan they are enduring the worst disaster since WWII, middle east wars abruptly escalating–so no wonder people haven’t watched casual TV as much! NBC needs to get some common sense and renew The Cape, at least give it 2 years to develope an even larger following. Well, that’s all I know to say. I am so sorry to hear what they did to The Cape.
All I have to say is AMEN!!!!!!!!!!
I agree people are way to critical and to judgemental. The cape was a good show that was brutally mangled by the monday at nine pm time slot and an audience that was way to judgemental. People its supposed to be for entertainment. If you gave the show a chance it could get better its only 10 episodes old for god sake. I gave it a chance and it got better. I will agree that it can have slow annoying spots but every story has those. Give it a chance.
The Cape was fun and entertaining, which is a heck of a lot more than I can say for The Event.
I really wish that some shows would last a little bit longer. The Cape could do well!
the cape was just lacking in every way that show wasn’t made for a big network like NBC, more like USA,tbs or syfy channel.
I don’t necessarily like the filming style of the show, but I don’t let that cloud my judgment – don’t over analyze things guys!!!. I enjoy both The Cape and Event and would like both to stay on the air. What I am deathly sick of is the ordinary cop shows that clog the airways now. I can’t take any more variations of CSI, NCIS, or Law and Order not to mention Blue Bloods, Chicago Code, or what was that other one that has already been canceled(?). There time is UP, give me more like Chuck, The Cape, Event, No Ordinary Family, V, and Fringe (yes I know I am crossing networks). There is no reason that the major networks should not offer variety as some of us don’t waste our money on premium cable channels, and should not have too. I am so thrilled that new free to air sub channels are opening up now and find myself watching them more and more even though they have old reruns. At least it represents variety (the spice of life..if you haven’t heard) !!!!!!!!!
I agree with many: The Cape was a good show!! NBC is stupid to cancel it. My entire family is sick of CSI, American Idol, Survivor, crap reality shows like Beverly Hills Wives that glorify adultery & lies…We almost vomit and now change the channel at any episode of Criminal Minds or CSI, with the constant gore for gore’s sake. We enjoyed the comic book “yesteryear” aura of The Cape and shows like Chuck. It showcased Family Values, Honor, Integrity–NBC needs to bring The Cape BACK!!! It was on our “Must See” list each week. The Cape had such an interesting cast of characters, too, and we enjoyed the great acting. Please bring back The Cape!!!!!!!!!!!!
what is wrong with these people this show had alot of potential
As much as I enjoy the Cape and look forward every week to seeing it, I knew it was doomed from the very beginning because its creators make the mistake of pitching it to a major network. Quirky shows *almost* never survive on a major network. I blame the creators who developed The Cape then took it to NBC. What possessed you? Money? Fame? A deathwish for this show? Why didn’t you go to a smaller network that doesn’t have to have a huge ratings hit for the show to survive? At this point, after seeing so many shows I love canceled on a big network, I approach the show with a attitude of ‘yeah, I’ll watch until its cancelled”. Sad but true. Now I find myself watching TBS, USA, A&E, Sy Fy, etc… at least the shows there get a fighting chance. The Cape never had a chance at all. So sad.
Ok allmost all the viewers who watch The Cape are pissed off by this desicion cutting the awsome serie like The Cape.
What everybody wants is more series like The Cape,Chuck,V,No ordenary family and meny more.TV is becomeing boaring deffenatly i havent turned it on for like a week cuz I dont have what to watch.
And now we don’t do anything all day.So this would be a only normal solucion.Make them make 1 more season give them more time.You can’t have a cople of MILIONS OF VIEWERS in a short time especialy whit all that has happend in the world.They are what people want and not some boaring shows that you don’t iwen care about but you still put them on the TV.People don’t have anything now to watch,read,OR EVEN SEE.You are makeing a mestake so what do you want people entertaned or do you want them to stop watching TV forever.(By the looks of it thats not in your favore cuz less views everything has less money you get and less TV shows you have)I dont know what to say first Heroes never finished I mean so much BLANK space and nothing to fill it.Now The Cape whats next you going to cut(?).
I thought the pilot was absolutely awesome and the series just as amazing. My husband and I both loved it. We are 50 something and loved the idea of imagination, excitement, suspense, magic, and a great story line. The show, in our opinion, will be sorely missed.
Maybe Berman has lost her “touch” and being the fragile
prairie flower that she is hopefully she won’t drown her
anger in food.
Oh, thank goodness. This is the best TV news I’ve heard all day. The Cape is horrendous.
Things didn’t look good for this show when it began. When NBC and everyone else passed on David Kelly’s Wonder Woman I asked myself “NBC greenlighted The Cape and passed on a WW project which sounds much more ambitious and intriguing?” I guess someone else over there at NBC asked themselves the same thing.
The concept could have worked, but not like this…
People clamor for originality on network TV, and yet when it arrives no one watches… Sigh. This one deserved a shot. At least a full season’s worth…
Originality is what people want, but not with the kind of boring execution that seems to be so common nowadays. Network TV has been lobotomized and there’s little creative output happening. The Event is another prime example.
Total agreement from me. People say they want something new fresh and different and then when it comes along they dont even recognize it – been loving every ep of The Cape and you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of scripted dramas i watch and still have something left over to salute the ones who wont give this show a chance.
I agree 100%. The comic book hipster douches turned their nose up at this… and comic books are even crappier.
This show was approaching brilliance, if they had cast Alan Tudyk as Trip Faraday then it would have been the greatest show on television bar NONE.
Is this produced BY NBCU? I think it is. Too bad, would have been a perfect fill-in for the vacant “Smallville” slot this fall. Of course, Deadline has already reported this evening their shitty-looking pilot orders for the fall.
Seriously, the cape taking smallville’s place? come on.
Terminator or LoTS are worthy shows that would fit great, but the cape is just a bad show deserving no tv slot.
LoTS is possibly the worst piece of trash I ever saw.
The Cape is The Wire by comparison.
Also Bridget Reagan is an-ugly manchin. I would not trib.
Personally I loved the show and am sad to hear the news. Great photography and story that needed time to build.
That would be because it sucks.
Shocker.
You would have thought they’d learn from ABC, you don’t schedule a six-or-more-week break from a continuing-storyline show like The Event and expect people to come back for it. Just ask Flash Forward. And it doesn’t help that The Event isnt good anyway.
As for the Cape, eh. I saw the writing on the wall from the pilot.
I could barely even make it through the pilot
THeEvent is complete garbage. The Cape is 100x better.
When a detective tells the perp in the back seat to shut up when he is spilling his guts, you know the writers are true hacks.
The Cape was fun live action comic that made me laugh.
The Event is neither fun nor makes me laugh… it is just fail&AIDS.
Berman Braun have the anti-Midas touch.
How come everything that they made is under AFTRA instead of SAG? Don’t they know about the AFTRA jinx?
@Larry B: you’re in another decade. Check the SAG awards article posted on this site:”… for the first time, a winner in one of the top categories, Modern Family, was an AFTRA-affiliated show. ..tonight 3 out of the 6 SAG Awards for series, or 50%, went to AFTRA-designated shows” Not to mention SAG & AFTRA will likely become one union soon.
This has nothing to do w/”the AFTRA jinx” or any other jinx for that matter. As many posters indicate, the show wasn’t very good, and nobody came to the party.
Annie Oakley, please do not think in any way that THE CAPE was original. It was cud. It was the regurgitation of HEROES, BATMAN, and a very long line of material. THE CAPE was awful. Another middle-aged white male writer spewing middle-aged white male wetdreams. And I’m being nice.
Would a TV version of BLANKMAN soothe your mind?
Captain Awesome, I’m sure you are laughing you’re head off in Starbucks, writing your pilot that definitely will get picked up next season. People just lost their jobs, jerk.
General the people who lost their jobs are the writers who will now have to go back to Starbucks. The hard-working and talented crew will go on to a better show. The Cape was crap it was boring it was stupid. That’s because the writing sucked. By your logic no show should ever be canceled so nobody ever loses his or her job. That would mean no new slots for your brilliant show.
>network
>brilliant show
Network hasn’t had a brilliant show since M*A*S*H.
Go back to bed Trip.
Elia — Did The Cape use tropes commonly found in all superhero stories? Yes. Did it borrow from familiar heroes like Batman to build it’s own mythology. Sure. All great storytellers take from stories before them. That’s the evolving nature of TV and film and books and comics, and name any other medium. You take something that’s been seen before and try and put your own spin on it. Tell me another show that’s on TV that incorporated a whimsical carnival with diverse participants, a meta-metropolis, and a caped crusader? That’s right — there isn’t one. Batman isn’t a show on TV, Heroes was cancelled, and…well I believe I’ve already made my point.
There was nothing quite like The Cape on TV RIGHT NOW and it’s a pity that it didn’t get a fair shot.
With all due respect, Annie Oakley, borrowing from other stories is tried and true, but you borrow and you raise the bar. That’s what INCEPTION did. THE CAPE didn’t put ANY SPIN on the superhero genre. If it did anything, it lowered the bar, it crapped on it. It took every superhero cliche and reduced it to an un-funny punch-line. This show probably closed the door for a while on any possible superhero type shows.
THE CAPE was written by a middle-aged white dude getting his jollies off with a white dude superhero. If NBC wanted to do an original superhero show with THE CAPE, they should’ve started with a single mother as THE CAPE… (you fill in the rest)
Cheesy-looking, lame, with no distinct vision or truly interesting characters–this show was a marketing exec’s idea of original.
Elia, who cares it the writer was white? Racist much?
The show could have been ok, but the execution just wasn’t there. I think that it was rushed and needed some better character development. But sadly the networks want action and ratings, so character development becomes secondary and so you end up with shows like this (and dozens of others) that seem flat and rushed. If you want to blame anyone for The Cape not being good, blame the network.
After a show is pitched and green lighted, they are the ones in control.
I agree completely with Annie. In the latest episode, the Cape team (possibly) appropriated a joke from the Tick animated series (Max: “Doesn’t anyone read anymore?”) But also in this episode they reinforced that concept with a key plot element that can trace its lineage directly back to Aeschylus (Dice as death oracle). Although this series is often bathed in an exaggerated comic book palate, it seems to be very aware of its many ancestors – from the 1930s Republic movie serials back to the 1920s-30s pulp fiction like the Shadow back to things like Feuillade’s Vampires of 1916. And now back to Aeschylus. The comic book influences are only part of the bigger picture here.
I think the cape tries to hard, and delivers too little.
Hear hear!
You are right about this but the last episode was a bit unfair. Why did they kill Dice. She just wanted revenge like Faraday. Orwell did not have to handcuff her to the burning building. The writing is a bit sad. I loved the Pilot and they have something but they need to empower the episodes just a bit more. I don’t hate the show just that episode disappointed me because He suppose to be a cop.
I don’t watch tv, but Ive watched this, and I think it walks the fine line between comicbook camp and real-life drama. I think it should be continued and further developed. I’ll watch.
you are a real understander of TV comic crossover
The pilot wasn’t very good but last night’s ep was awesome, imo. I liked the show and will be very sad to see it go.
I’ll miss James Frain every week on my TV screen.
I feel really bad for the actors and crew.
Network TV sucks anyway. They should have put it on Sho or HBO, or hey, SyFy….a channel that would have given the series a chance to find it’s footing. Not every show is perfection out of the gate.
F*** NBC!
It doesn’t help thet the show was aired in CANADA a day early so everyone and their mother pirated it by the time it aired in USA.
I am NEVER watching ANYTHING on that network again. I hope they never pull out of last place… Kings was canceled, now the only alternative I have to the plethora of copshows on television.
NBC DESERVES to be in ast place. In fact I hope Telemundo eclipses their ratings and they go out of business.
You do know that Telemundo is owned by NBC, right?
I never made it past the pilot. The acting was shockingly bad. The story was rushed. The cape looked like a junior high school kid created it on his dad’s cast of laptop. How in the world did this make it past the pilot and onto the air? Too bad. It’s a good idea. Just bad casting, writing, effects and so on and so forth.
Th Cast was great except the kid… even Lyons was alright.
Kick down whatever it is you’re smoking. Bogart.
Let’s be honest- it was a helluva lot more original than Law&Order or CSI spin-off five hundred, but that doesn’t mean it was a good show. And this comes from a girl who still read comic books before bedtime.
Exactly… comic book creeps are just joyless. They hated Avatar too… they hate everything but that turd Superboy.
we need heros that are not every day blokes. we want to look up to super heros, like greek statues of gods. i tried to like this show but it was week in character. bring on the gritty masculinity of men who’s presence and conviction is undeniable.
Its a kids show. It should have been marketed to kids. Haven’t heard anyone invoke Greatest American Hero. Its like that, just not updated. btw, I just lost my job. I worked on it.
Completely agree that it was a kids show from the start. There is no way you could execute this concept and have it appeal to primetime’s demo demands much less the comic book fan market; a fickle bunch — particularly to anything that smells of pandering to their tastes. I hope you land on your feet and on a show with legs.
I am 68 years old and I loved The Cape; it reminded me of the serials in my youth when we’d go to the theatre for ten cents, to watch the reels as dedicated fans. Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon and all of their sort, were heroes that inspired the likes of Neil Armstrong. We need uplifting fantasy to perhaps inspire a new generation, and bring comfort to the old. Chuck has the support of George Lucas, I hear, so hopefully he will intervene to save The Cape–even if it goes in syndication? That would be wonderful. To whomever worked on The Cape: you did a great job, and I thank you for your talents!
Sorry about the Job never fun to loss one. My 13 year old really liked it and it was fun to take the time out of the day to hang out with him while it was on. There was a lot that the show need to work on but selling it as kids show would have the first place to start.
The Cape was hideous.
I want to know how this show got on the air.
Ben Silverman’s final parting shot?
Thank god. I like a lot of crap… prison break, V, The Event, Flash Forward, etc etc all amazing shows compared to this ridiculous garbage. The story and his powers were so generic and non-sensical… Do NOT bring this show back for another season
All those shows are shit compared to The Cape, especially The Event.It has zero redeeming qualities.
The Cape was fun and made me laugh… The Event was just unwatchable garbage. It also lost a much larger % of the audience than The Cape.
Really like Keith David’s performance in this. Too bad it is going to end soon. It’s entertaining.