Could it have been the three month lay off or could it have been stiff competition from the opening night of the NCAA Tournament?
The return of “Flash Forward” got off to a slow start last night with the show’s audience shrinking 10% from its last new airing back in December.
The two-hour “FlashForward” (6.6 million viewers, 1.9 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) was down 10% from its last original episode back in December. If the show continues to perform at this level, the ABC drama’s next blackout might be the show winking off the air.
Robert J. Sawyer, who wrote the book that was the basis for the series, says that fans shouldn’t lose hope yet for a second season.
“On the other hand, my Hollywood agent, who is much more savvy about these things than I am, just emailed to say he thinks FLASHFORWARD still has a good shot at a second season, despite last night’s ratings—and it’s certainly true that a lot of very-high-level conversations have been going on at ABC lately on that topic. Fingers crossed!” he wrote on his blog.
“Flash Forward” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.
I caught the episode last night, and I have to say that I was impressed. It didn’t feel as slow and/or ponderous as earlier episodes, gave a couple answers and kept me interested the whole time. (Plus, I thoroughly enjoyed the Simon/Janis game of hide-n-seek)
I turned it off after 15 minutes. It was too over the top, yet boring at the same time. Like every single word was written by Shakespeare himself. The new show runner, whoever it is, is not impressing me.
We were about to give up on it but after seeing the Thursday night episode we are going to try hanging on a while longer pretty much for the reasons GazerBeam mentioned.
And given the complexity of the show we were very happy to see the Tuesday night “catch-up” episode.
I am already so close to giicing up the show. I am going to see this episode tomorrow or Monday. If it does not grab me, I might be done with this show, for good. Or, just untill everyone says its amazing
ABC has invested so much in this show that I expect they will air the full season, but it won’t be back for another one. And I’m fine with that.
Could it be that while the premise is interesting, the characters are STUPID??? You have one character who defies his flash forward and commits suicide thereby showing the world that you do have control of your own life, and yet the characters allow themselves to become slaves to their own flash forwards and then just whine about it!
Bad storytelling!!! I’ll be black to see it cancelled…