NBC recently gave a full season pick-up to its freshman drama, “The Event” and now the network is looking to bring in more viewers.
Ratings haven’t been spectacular for the new show and NBC wants to give the show a chance to build a new audience. In order to do that, they’ll relaunch the show in January. The series will wrap up its first 13 episodes in December and then look to relaunch things in January.
Part of that will be a one-hour recap to bring viewers up to speed. Then, the second half of the season will start, actor Bill Smitrovich tells EW.
We will finish up with our first 13 and then there be a break, and then we’ll come back with a one-hour compilation clip show of the first 13 so everybody can catch up with story,” says Smitrovich, who plays Vice President Raymond Jarvis. “I hope that will spark another increase in the audience.”
“Ratings are one of the variables that we don’t have control over,” said Blair Underwood (President Elias Martinez) at a recent SAG panel on the show. “There is the crossfire competition from Dancing With the Stars, football, and the No. 1 comedy Two and A Half Men. Then, this is the type of genre show like 24 and Lost where viewership always picks up in the second season because people go back and watch during the summer or get the DVD. That builds an audience. And this show was sold in 200 international markets before it premiered here so there is incentive to keep the show going. We are in a good place.”
Really?? Gotta admit..I’m surprised. Thought it was a pretty low-grade exercise in Yaaaaaawn inducing TV.
It’s being reported that “The Event” will come back after its break on February 28th, not January. Until “The Event” comes back, the new series “The Cape” will be airing in its time slot (starting in January).
I dvr Two and A half Men, and Lie to Me on Mondays, then watch Event live. Unfortunately the nelsons system is so broke, they never know what I’m actually watching live.