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ABC’s November 18 order of one additional episode to freshman drama Pan Am stands. Back then, the network opted for a one-episode back order to the 1960s drama, bringing the first-season run of Pan Am to 14 episodes, but producer Sony Pictures TV didn’t accept the offer right away. The negotiations between the sides stretched into the holiday weekend and were still in full force yesterday. To help shore up a full-season order, Sony added Steven Maeda as showrunner a month ago. In the end, the studio took ABC’s original offer and will produce one extra episode. This morning, one of the show’s stars, Karine Vanasse, tweeted that the cast and crew have “received THE call” and that “Pan Am is only coming back for one more episode after Christmas.” As ABC stated back on November 18, it will make final decision on the fate of the show beyond its first season in May. On ABC’s midseason schedule, Pan Am is being replaced by new dramedy GCB on Sundays 10 PM beginning in March.
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Sooo, basically it’s getting canceled then I guess.
It would be a shame to cancel Pan Am. It’s one of the only new shows that I like. The characters are interesting, locations superb and when that plane takes off at the beginning of an episide, it just takes me away. It’s something I really look forward to. The last episode where they had to land the plane in Haiti was very dramatic and kept you watching every minute.
Barf.
Nice try, Sid.
Shut the fuck up about Sid Ganis. That man is the menchiest nicest coolest man who has ever graced this town and anyone who disparages him doesn’t know him. Do half the stuff he’s done and even then don’t open your face hole.
I think Terry Gilliam would disagree with you on that.
The Haiti episode was the absolute worst of the bunch. Let’s land a plane full of people to save a really old man’s life on a hostile island with no hospital and a too-short runway.
clearly
Who was the ABC Executive who ruined Pan Am? Was it the exec that Paul lee fired?
Paul Lee didn’t fire an executive. The Executive Producers were fired.
This has been done several times by the broadcast networks. I remember this is what NBC did with Heroes, which finished it’s run during February but had to wait until May to find out it was cancelled. Basically, ABC is holding the cast to their contracts until the upfronts so they can’t move on during pilot season -and THEN determine if they have another show that will do better. IF Pan Am gets renewed -it will be only because ABC has a weak production slate for next year. The chances are -the show is dead.
Thats why I don’t watch new shows anymore. I know networks aren’t going to stand behind them so I don’t want to waste my time getting invested in new TV shows that aren’t going to conclude or be around in six months…or in some cases in two weeks
I feel the same way. I only watch episodic TV on cable – first, because I know they’ll give their shows a better than average chance so I don’t feel like I’m wasting my time. Second, cable is the only place a 41 year old heterosexual man can find a program that he can relate to these days – network TV has become the destination for fat chicks and gays. Not one show a real man can watch without cringing.
Who is supposed to be the “real man” in your example? The homophobic dude who is a problem with overweight women?
Frankly, Grady, you sound like a child. Try Nickelodeon.
CBS’ round-the-clock schedule of “a depraved murder every hour” is geared toward 41-year-old heterosexual men just like you.
“Hart of Dixie” could be good if they’d let it, but so far it’s a very charming Rachel Bilson in the middle of bland, bland, bland.
I sense that your face has also become a destination for fat chicks and gays.
time to come up with something better. I started watching it , but lost interest really fast. stories were weak and the cast left me cold
Aw crap. It’s no masterpiece but I really like it!
That’s one more episode than I made it through. Had 6 eps recorded sat down to watch the first one and then deleted it as soon as they introduced one stewardess as a secret agent. Stop doing period shows if you have no idea what the period was like. I realize you all want to he the next madmen well then watch madmen and figure out why people enjoy it. Don’t just see period show and move on.
No one has ask this? why replaces one female tv show for another female tv show. just to see the same out come happen twice?
Well, I guess if for some reason, GCB becomes a big hit AND automatically takes over the DHW-slot next season AND becomes a great lead-in for the 10pm-show, a Once Upon a Time – GCB – Pan Am trio could be viable. Let’s face it, at first sight, people probably thought DHW will be a great lead-in for Pan Am, but it could barely deliver LOW 3s (more like high 2s) in the 18-49 demo, so it’s not like Pan Am got a ratings powerhouse as a lead in, and then flopped miserably. I heard the ABC-people really like it creatively, so who knows.
Shame. I really like this show.
James…the ABC Ex is Channing Dungrey( or whatever that spelling is) Some things aren’t worth remembering. Put this show out of its misery.
It’s Dead, ABC just is taking the cowards way out so not to lose what viewers it has for the remaining episodes!
I love Pan Am…
the playboy club would have been way better. they should do a recast and start over. eventhough they need a recast it was still better than pam am. pa is some terrible acting.
Why don’t the studios just do this:
Arrange for only three or four episodes for each and every show.
Produce the shows, then wait until the (random and inaccurate) ratings come in when they broadcast.
Have the show runner, crew and actors sitting there on the stage waiting to hear if they order “one more show” that week, or if they’ll get screwed.
And on, and on, and on, ad nauseum.
(And don’t forget to promote the corporate schmuck whose persistent, yet amateur, meddling removed the soul from the original show idea.)
“Three episodes have been ordered.” “One episode has been ordered.” Really, studios? One fucking episode? I realize that order will keep people working, but for working for what? You don’t give any new shows enough time to get better, much less to find an audience. When are show runners gonna say “NO – give me at least 13 eps, up front, or I’m taking my show elsewhere.”
Stop this “let’s try it out” crap! TV audiences are already splintered with so many entertainment options. With the way TV is currently scheduled, new shows don’t have a chance.
Better yet, why don’t the networks do limited-run series? Not every premise has five years plus of syndication in it–and the nets are blowing more money with their current “string everyone along” system than they would be if they just ran season-long or half-season shows.
Pan Am is a great premise. Love the 60′s vibe. Great potential. Don’t give up on it so quickly ABC.
Problems:
Christina Ricci is miscast….not believable. Gotta go.
Too much jumping around in the timelines-keep the plotlines linear.
Odd plotlines…keep it realistic.
Decide what it is – spy thriller, period drama, romantic drama.
Assets:
Three “stewardesses” other than Christina Ricci are very appealing characters. Develop them.
Very sexy time period….the whole jet-age thing and 60′s style.
Too good of a start-up to go the way of “Charlie’s Angels”
I love when people say “the 60s vibe”. What do you mean, exactly? The show WAS in the 60s, it’s not just a “vibe”. Haha anyways this show sucked. No one watched it, and it’s getting cancelled. Just because the show takes place in another era does not make it high brow.
“Three “stewardesses” other than Christina Ricci are very appealing characters. Develop them.”
I don’t agree about Ricci’s character–her non-white-bread personality is a nice contrast to the rest of the women. But whomever developed her had no sense of what a rebel/beatnik was like. Most of those folks didn’t put on and take off their convictions like a new stew hat–they lived them. Ricci’s beatnik attitude seemed like just a convenient label, not something she truly believed in. But otherwise you are quite correct–the show got off on the wrong foot (not) developing these characters and never really recovered.
“Too much jumping around in the timelines-keep the plotlines linear.”
_Seriously_. This show became a lot more trouble to follow than it was worth as a result. MAD MEN uses flashbacks, but usually confines them to one character in an episode focused on that character–or two interrelated characters looking at where their relationship started/went wrong. PAM AM has practically every character flashing back every five minutes, which wrecks forward story momentum and forces you to spend too much time sorting out who did what when.
Again, this isn’t looking good for Pan Am and unless this new showrunner and writer get on the ball and start producing scripts that bring about consistency and a smooth flow and balance to th storylines, this show will be done by the end of January. Right now, a new episode airs this Sunday, then goes on hiatus for two mor weeks and then resumes airing on Christmas and NY day, but more eyeballs need to tune into this show and to stop theoveacting that’s going on here and make the show worth a damn once again.
Why even bother with one more ep? It just looks like ABC is filling an empty slot post-Christmas. One additional episode is not enough to wrap up any season-long story arcs, or in PAN AM’s case to wrap the entire show before departing the airwaves permanently.
PAN AM could have been a cool period piece, just not on ABC. It needs the freedom that cable or a movie channel (HBO, Starz, etc.) can provide – meaning more profanity and nudity!
I haven’t had time to watch since the first episode, but the first episode was great. I have no idea how the show has been since, but the pilot proved the concept is great.
Let’s here it for the back one!
After watching all but two episodes, I’m hooked on Pan Am. It’s entertainment not gratuitous violence and the potential to add characters and situations seems endless. I hope ABC reconsiders or that another network picks it up
Pan Am is the one show that I and many of my friends watch on ABC. That said I agree the story line can use some clean up and focus but, to abandon a product that has attracted viewers that would most likely not tune in to ABC at all should not be taken lightly.