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Amidst its slew of new series pickups, I’ve learned that Fox also has renewed midseason drama Touch for a second season. The news comes on the heels of a ratings rebound for Tim Kring’s series starring Kiefer Sutherland following a post-premiere slide. 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment are producing. The jury is still out on fellow freshman drama series The Finder, which had shown some signs of life on Friday, but its chances don’t look good. UPDATE: The Finder is indeed now a goner. Alcatraz is out of the picture, especially after Fox renewed J.J. Abrams’ other bubble drama series, Fringe. It has been a great afternoon for Chernin Entertainment, whose Fox comedy pilot Ben & Kate (formerly Ben Fox Is My Manny) received a series pickup an hour and a half ago. Joining The Finder and Alcatraz on the cancellation pile are comedies Breaking In and I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
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What about ALCATRAZ?????
About in the same category as “The Finder”. It’s probably gone.
According to multiple other sites “Alcatraz” is dead while “The Finder” still has a very, VERY small chance…
Here’s something hi-larious. I was looking through Deadline’s upfront coverage from last year, and came across this absolute gem:
“And then [FOX] ordered a second series from Abrams, Alcatraz. There had been concern that the procedural element in it would be overshadowed by a mythology that would only get more dense over time and would put the show on track for Fringe’s 1.5-2 demo rating range. But I hear the network’s brass concerns were eased after a very good meeting with the producers yesterday that helped clinch the pickup.”
So Abrams upped the boring procedural and downplayed the (possibly) interesting mythology to avoid the terrible, terrible prospect that the show would end up like Fringe. But Fringe has been renewed, and Alcatraz is toast. That’s what ya get for listening to the suits.
I wonder what boneheaded decisions we will be guffawing over come May 2013? Revolution is at the top of my list…oh, and too frakkin’ many comedies, it’s overload.
On FOX news here in Phoenix, this morning’s guest was Micheal Clarke Duncan, announce they where getting ready to start shooting season 2.
Touch audience is not going to return for season 2. So fox is only keeping this show banking on that 80′s generation that want to see 2 shows back to back with Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland.
Last year they could of salvage The Chicago Code because it was clearly filling the void of Complex crime drama that been non-existent on broadcast for some time.
C’mon, George. It’s “could have.” And work on the rest of your sentences in multiple posts while pining for shows long gone.
I’ll be watching Touch. I came here to see if it had been renewed and when to expect it. YEA!!! love this show.
Cool for Touch. It’s a bit cheesy at times but it’s quite good overall.
I don’t see why Alcatraz would necessarily be “out of the picture.”
FOX has renewed Fringe for 13 episodes, which will probably air from Sept 21 to Dec 21, 2012 (the perfect date for the series finale). They could easily renew Alcatraz for a 15-episode second season airing on Fridays from January to May 2013. That doesn’t seem unrealistic at all, actually. They’ve already cancelled House, Terra Nova and The Finder (undoubtedly) and ordered a short final season of Fringe, they can allow themselves to give this other J.J. Abrams production another try.
As for the Monday 9pm time slot, I could see Touch moving there, following Bones, since it was 24′s former time slot.
Does anybody watch and/or like this show?
I personally love this show!! I hope it goes for a very long time!
Oh I do. And I love the way it ended. Can not wait for it to come back. Does anyone know when it does??
Wonder how much in penalties it would have cost Fox to not pickup Touch for a second go round.
Alcatraz is cancelled. Officially.
“The Finder” is canceled, too, according to TVLine.
ALCATRAZ deserved to be canceled. Creatively bankrupt rubbish.
Creatively bankrupt?! Personal taste is personal taste and fine, maybe Alcatraz wasn’t to your liking but how could you ever call that show creatively bankrupt? I feel like most new shows these days are either very derivative or incredibly contrived and gimmicky, Alcatraz is/was neither.
It wasn’t more creatively bankrupt than 90% of the crap on TV, but that’s not saying much. This past season of new shows has been TERRIBLE. I’m happy every time another one of them goes down, which is mitigated by the certain knowledge that their replacements are unlikely to be any better.
FOX in particular has a terrible pilot lineup. That FOX would renew a total dud like Touch just shows the depths of their desperation.
Only the Kevin Bacon serial killer show sounds good and who knows how long they can maintain a premise like that? I predict flameout within two seasons, tops.
Cheesy, hells yes. But I keep watching each week. Maybe the rebound is because once you buy into the ridiculous premise, it’s a very well-constructed, complex and ultimately satisfying hour. I like trying to figure out how all the storylines will come together at the end. And so far, each episode has managed to surprise me.
Thank you! totally agree
So bummed that Fox decided to pick up Touch and probably not Alcatraz. I tried watching, but Touch is a TERRIBLE show about cheesy bullshit that is only going to get worse and worse as time goes on. Alctraz was actually good already with the potential for so much more in furture seasons. Poor choice Fox!
Alcatraz was a great show and its a shame that Fox canceled it … Hope Sarah Jones will be back soon on the TV screen …
I wouldn’t “touch” this particular show with a ten foot pole. I am somewhat surprised it was renewed. But,then again with all their other failures(terra nova,alcatrash,finder)-Fox had to renew something. Their lack of success with the aforementioned programs is the reason I believe they renewed that soap opera Bones as well. In my opinion I think Touch ratings will drop next season.I don’t see it getting renewed again unless many new Fox programs fail again.
Hello second season of ‘Touch’, goodbye ’24′ movie… at least until early 2014, although whether it will still have a large enough audience who still care about Jack Bauer enough to justify a $40m budget is another matter…
Alcatraz seemed to have its fans, but I found it pretty unwatchable. Too much violence, and the past and present storylines never seemed to mesh each week. Love Jorge Garcia, the chick wasn’t too bad, but Sam Neill honestly stopped the show cold for me every time he was on screen (strange, because I have no problem with Sam Neill in other things). John Noble, he wasn’t (in this role, anyway).
I’m a little sadder about The Finder, actually. Not really my kind of show, but it seemed to fill a niche. I thought Fox would continue to give it a chance on Fridays, which is when old folks seem to watch TV (I thought The Finder skewed that way).
I have mixed feelings on Alcatraz, but mostly agree with Tim about the show being unwatchable. Most episodes followed the formula of three people being threatened with ghastly forms of death that I then have to get out of my head. The first two suffer the awful death, then the third one is rescued. After the first two die having the third one survive wasn’t much of a relief.
Touch – Just don’t get why it deserves a second season. Watching an anguished Keifer turn himself into a pretzel every week to understand what his kid is trying to tell him and then schlepping all over town to put the pieces together got tired after ep 2.
Alcatraz was a guilty pleasure but the formula wasn’t evolving quickly enough – although I’d give it a second season over Touch in a heartbeat.
Keifer turning himself into a pretzel…perfect description there, Aloy.
Alcatraz was really coming together nicely with some great characters like the Warden, but without the flashbacks it wouldn’t have been as much fun.
What always bugged me about the show was Sam Neill, his character would be 70+ years old if he was about 20 in 1963. Unless they were going to explain that away in season 2…
Great, i thought its ratings drop would make fox cancel. It means we have to wait a year for the possibility of a 24 movie.
So bummed out about The Finder! Great cast and chemistry…quirky and entertaining story lines…this show would have found an audience given a little more time and better time slot!
Never saw The Finder but saw the “lead-in” episode of Bones S6 and it was awful. Then again….season 6 of Bones was awful too.
I wanted to like Alcatraz but the villains were gratingly vile and the girl and Jorge would have gotten killed in every episode after about Ep #3 they were so inept. Touch is awful. I absolutely love Kiefer but all he does in the show is run around like a fool and yell the kid’s name. The Finder is the same old contrived bleh that I don’t believe for one second. Fringe is the keeper. They made me care what happens to the people and want to find out what they do next even as the story line got less believable.
I’m sick of investing my time in shows with a cool mythology or long-term storyline only to have them cancelled in year one with viewers screwed out of knowing what happens to our favorite characters. It happens so often now I hardly ever START watching a show till it’s in its second season. Come on networks! Give fans SOMETHING for closure! That said, Alcatraz was the only show I wanted to see out of the above. It’s fate was what I expected. The only place to reliably renew quirky drama-thrillers these days is cable.
typical for the network that dumped Wonderfalls and Firefly. why Fox is sticking with a new age mash up like Touch which probably cost more than The Finder and Alcatraz both is beyond me. they certainly don’t have the notion of Brandon Tartikoff who was willing to let shows find and build a fan base. Cheers was not a smash hit right outta the box. it took awhile for folks to find it. never would have happened on Fox unless Keifer was in it maybe. boycotting Fox again.
i found myself enjoying Touch. I like how the people are all tied together somehow. I find it different than many shows on tv now. Not to many shows that made me smile at the end and Touch is one of them
I loved Touch. Liked how it kept me watching the show and am definitely glad there will be a second season i will be waiting for it to come back on.