ElectricPhantom wrote:Thank you for clearing that up for us, to coin a phrase, straight from one of the horses' mouth (so to speak). I believe that helps to ease some of the concerns many of us have on the future of the show.z00story wrote:I cannot speculate on the future of KR, because I simply do not know. However, I can tell you this, from my experience on TV shows both past and present, and as someone who worked on a show during the writer's strike last year.
Right now, both post production and visual effects are still alive and kicking at the studios, working hard to finish this season of KR.
On every hour long drama, production always finishes first, then they pack things up and lock down the sets. That's always, always, always the way it is. Now, if a show knows, for 100% sure (which is rare) they are returning, then they lock down the set. They leave everything in there and literally lock it up for 3 months.
It's rare that they do this though, even if a show is guaranteed to return. They usually use this as an opportunity to change sets, re-design things, prep for the next season.
So there will always be a process of emptying out stages, cleaning things up, and then a hiatus for the production.
But rest assured, many of us are still up there working hard.
I dont believe it eases anything at all.
As another poster said, bosses want their workers to work at their full capacity right until the end.
GST and co. can only tell us what they have been told, they wont lie.
WHy wouldnt they lie?
If the show where cancelled TPTB at NBC might tell GST to keep his mouth shut about it.
WHy would he do that though? He wants to keep his job and he wants to keep the jobs of the many people working on the show. SO he would leak the information and maybe the fans then would pull a Jericho.
Ben and NBC arent stupid, they know the reaction. They will be bombarded with trinkets, annoying phone calls, emails and bags of letters. Hell, they might get 10, 000 of each. You might say thats a good thing..but it doesnt mean anything unless those people have ratings boxes.
The sensible fans will realise that these campaigns rarely ever work and they will get the sh*ts and just not watch the final few eps.
So if the execs at NBC dont tell the cast and crew and if they keep giving them hope they get to:
-Avoid the campaign bombardment
-Keep what little viewers we still have
-etc
I personally believe that at this stage NBC plans to cancel the show and the crew will not be told until after ep17.
So everyone who thinks that yeah, the show will probably come back if we get a point of two more in the ratings, needs to stop thinking that way.
Dont plan the campaigns in case of cancellation. DO the campaigns NOW. If you know someone with a ratings box then have them log in KR, even if they dont watch it.
Convince the cast and crew to speak out publicly about renewel- and not just to a fan site either.
We need to proceed as if we ARE cancelled.
It would look so much better if NBC renewed the show for a season 2 than resurected it for a 9 episode run to see if the fans would support it. I wouldnt care if NBC tried to save face by saying they always planned to renew..as long as we had it back.
Once it does get renewed then the writers and GST have a responsability to ensure we never get put in this predicament again and actually give us a show that wipes away the sins of the first 8 episodes.
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The Neilson ratings aren't that accurate anyways!I think we should find a new way to count how many people are watching something on TV.I mean sampling a few thousand people isn't that accurate compared to the amount of people living in the US!
