Missing the Threshold
SciFi Wire thinks that CBS' Threshold may have bit the dust:
CBS has pulled its SF drama Threshold from the schedule for at least the next few weeks, following a lackluster ratings performance in a new Tuesday timeslot, Zap2it reported. Sources told E! Online that the show has been canceled; a CBS spokesperson couldn't be reached by Zap2It to confirm that.
That would be too bad, IMHO. While the premise of the show is "out there" (an alien signal can reprogram DNA), there's one big thing going for the show: there's no "evil government conspiracy" plotline. I'm getting kind of tired of that one, especially since X-Files beat it until it wasn't only dead, it's ancestors were begging for mercy. "Surface" has that conspiracy thing going (although, to be fair, there are so many defects in that show that picking on just one seems unfair).
Ultimately, I rather like the way "Threshold" depicts the ad-hoc government group fighting the alien incursion - they make stuff up as they go, trying to hold to a set of policies laid down by the show's protagonist. It seems a lot more realistic to me than a shadowy cabal that "really" runs things.
Comments
Slot shifting kills
[George Paci] November 28, 2005 14:43:41.314
They moved its time slot? They could have at least told somebody. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I've been looking for Threshold (OK, Carla Gugino) on Fridays for a few weeks now, and not finding it.
They could at least put a plug for it on during its old slot (now held by yet another knockoff of a knockoff crime show).
Not that the old slot was great: even I have better things to do than watch TV on the occasional Friday night. That's the hell UPN pitched Enterprise intoÂthen made things worse by letting affiliates rebroadcast the latest episode over the weekend.
It's time to face facts: aside from the one eponymous channel, the television business hates science fiction.