Gabrielle Union in ABC's "FlashForward'
*ABC’s cancelled drama “FlashForward,” which featured Courtney B. Vance, Michael Ealy and Gabrielle Union among the cast, may end up revived on cable network Starz, according to a Facebook fan group dedicated to saving the show.
One fan recently posted on the group: “I just called Starz and the rep told me that they are aggressively seeking the license for ‘FlashForward’ and that a lot of people have been calling about [the show].”
If Starz picks up the sci-fi series, it will lose its star Joseph Fiennes, who has signed to topline Starz drama “Camelot.”
Also, Union is moving into her own Lifetime spinoff of “Army Wives” and Ealy has just joined the cast of CBS’s “The Good Wife.”
and Courtney? I’ll guess he’ll be home taking care of the kiddies.
I hope this happens.
I am sure that since Joseph Fiennes is staring in another Starz series that they can work it out for him to do this one also. Pay the man and make it happen.
Gabrielle Union will be back. Everytime she’s on a series it gets cancelled.
I am sure that they can work something out with her to get her on the series even if it’s just some guest starring spots since she said her role was downplayed from what it was originally meant to be.
Now that I think about it, Starz may reshoot the series from the beginning with whoever they can get and rebuild the rest with new people. I hope they do like SCIFI did with Stargate after Showtime dropped it and blow Flash Forward the hell up!!!
You’re so right about Stargate. And what a run it had on Scifi, with multiple spinoffs and movies.
Whenever a series is launched on the broadcast networks, they need to immediately start talking to cable to pick it up, because you know it’s going to be canceled soon, based on inaccurate Nielsen ratings.
There is the famous case of the Fox show Family Guy that was cancelled after three seasons of poor Nielsen ratings. They realized the mistake when DVDs of the show sold extraordinarily well.
A lot of networks are now asking question about ratings that doesn’t make any sense. The main problem is that they have a monopoly, even though Nielsen samples less than 2 percent of the population.
A Miami-based station filed a lawsuit against them, accusing it of being a monopoly.
I wonder if they could use some real cable data now to prove how good Flash Forward was.
You’re very right about the Family Guy craziness. I love the show.
Neilsen sucks to high heaven and doesn’t use a sample that is large enough or a true representation of the US population.