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NBC has already had its share of bad luck (and bad ratings) this fall. Now there may be more on the way. MLB’s decision to postpone tonight’s Game 6 of the World Series to tomorrow night because of bad weather means that if the series goes to a seventh game, it will likely air on Friday — against the series premiere of Grimm and the final-season premiere of Chuck on NBC. NBC already pushed the shows’ debut by a week to create a Halloween-themed block on Thursday and Friday this week, so another delay seems unlikely. As for Fox, it had already cleared both Wednesday and Thursday night for baseball, so it will air Glee repeats tonight. If a seventh game is needed, the network will preempt the originals of Kitchen Nightmares and Fringe, currently slated for Friday.
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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer rip off of the Fables comic book series.
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Actually, “Grimm” is not the proposed show based on the comic book series “Fables”.
“Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm”, though bearing similarities to the comic books, are independently developed and have no direct relation to them. The article at the URL below explains . . . .
http://missmediajunkie.blogspot.com/2011/03/once-upon-time-grimm-fables.html
Oh snap. Coat got served. Chump.
“It was clearly easier for ABC and NBC to start over from scratch and come up with their own properties, rooted more strongly in traditional TV genres. “Grimm” is pretty clearly a crime procedural and “Once Upon a Time” will probably be some kind of mystery drama. I expect that if the fairy-tale trend continues, “Fables” may get an adaptation yet.”
This is not a valid argument – the point is, Willingham’s concept was to take fairy tale characters and integrate them into modern society which is exactly what these two series are blantantly without giving credit due. The networks just play dumb.
I’ve heard this same dumbass argument of how Harry Potter is not a rip off of Tim Hunter from Vertigo’s the Books of Magic series. The only thing is – Neil Gaiman endorses Rowlings and since Warner Bros owns both properties – there’s little to be done about it.
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I wish people would quit holding up Fables as the originator of the idea of fairy tales in the real world. Fables was published by DC/Vertigo in 2002. However, NBC aired a miniseries in 2000 called The 10th Kingdom which also show fairy tale creatures crossing over to New York City more than once.
Fables is a good series, but it was not the originator of the idea. Perhaps Willingham ripped off the creators of The 10th Kingdom?
Good point.
“This is not a valid argument – the point is, Willingham’s concept was to take fairy tale characters and integrate them into modern society which is exactly what these two series are blantantly without giving credit due.”
This is such a broad concept that I doubt anyone could copyright it as such. Even adding the element of a murder mystery does not make it a unique – and copyright worthy – idea.
NBC should seriously consider bumping these back a week (again.)
What does it matter if Chuck goes up against the MLB? The final season was already bought and paid for, there is nothing to worry about ratings wise that show.
if the series under delivers, the network will be forced to issue make-goods, so delivery is absolutely still important to the network (if not to the show’s producers and fans).
Grimm is the concern here, not Chuck, since we already know that’s ending. But if they want them to air together, delaying the pair would be the best idea.
Chuck would have been DVR’d the last several weeks due to Jewish holidays.
On top of being moved to Shabbas, TV will stay on FOX for the 25 hours if Game 7 is necessary.
For the viewer, no. For the network, advertising $ that pay for the millions the show cost them in license fees.
Grimm doesn’t deserve a better premiere. It’s a shameful rip off of The Sisters Grimm series written by Michael Buckley. I’ve seen the pilot and trust me – it’s neither as fun or as clever as the source it’s steals its concept from. I’m giving it 4 weeks before it goes the way of Charlie’s Angels.
Great! The only series that I have been looking forward to this season will be canceled next week due to poor ratings (thank you, World Series) because, as is typical, the network won’t bother taking into account the fact that nothing stands a chance against the World Series.
This is the lowest rated World Series of all-time…is it really going to matter that much?
Which is sad, because it’s been a great series. And I say that as a fan of neither team.
even in a low-rated series, a game 7 is guaranteed to stoke additional tune-in. And considering GRIMM will need all the male viewers it can get, there’s no upshot in going against baseball.
I truly do not see this series, or ‘Once upon a time’ lasting for very long. I honestly do not think people are into these types of shows. Its not kid friendly, so there goes an audience right there. We will see. It may be a shocker…or not.
Most TV shows are made by combining elements of other shows like Dexter is just Batman with forensics. I could tell that from the pilot and it got easier to see. You shouldn’t immediately discount programs just because they are similar to other concepts.
They know what sells, hence why they made 6 Star Wars movies or shows like NCIS. The pilot is just a way to gauge interest anyway. I’m also unsure if taking an hour or however long the shows, are away from the game.
Just record it on DVR or something if you
would rather watch Grimm/Chuck or the Series.
In summary, if they want to show the game and move the shows back, it shouldn’t matter to anyone. It wouldn’t hurt if they share ratings for one night.
Considering the poor decisions NBC has already made so far this season, it would be wise to push these shows back one more week, or they are going to get stomped in the ratings and maybe the CW will even beat them.
Keeping ‘Grimm’ on this date was doomed from the get go. The 18-34 crowd that would be most interested in something like this will be out celebrating Halloween weekend going to costume parties, bars, college pub crawls, haunted houses…
Bingo.
Not to mentioned that Grimm is actually up against Supernatural and Fringe which are both established shows with cult like followings.
The Cards will definitely earn a game seven — nobody would be watching Grimm anyway!
Silas deserves better!!!
People overestimate the interest in this World Series… Cardinals vs Rangers??? Who really gives crap?