It now appears that all the talk about “Moonlight” getting a second try by CBS has turned out to be just that….all talk!
The network has made its decision for the 2008-2009 television season and sadly “Moonlight” will not be apart of it as the Net is going for more laughs over drama this upcoming season. CBS did, however, give a last minute thumbs up for “The Unit,” deciding it liked its failing numbers over those of “Moonlight,” making “The Unit” one of the few dramas to get renewal. Of course “C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation” hangs on. Also biting the bullet is the James Woods drama “Shark.”
CBS waited until the very last minute to make its decision about whether or not to renew the vampire series because it was very aware of its passionate fan-base. However, execs simply couldn’t justify its numbers to advertisers and the show was finally axed.
Many critics, including yours truly, and fans alike saw this show starting to go somewhere unique with what was suppose to be its upcoming season finale. This final episode, now to be its last, was to start looking deeper into the unknown world of the 21st Century vampire community.
Networks really need to give these shows a chance. If they would have done with “Seinfeld” or “All in the Family” what they do with many niche’ fan favorites these days, then Carroll O’Connor would have remained a B-movie actor and Jerry Seinfeld would just be another struggling standup comedian no one ever heard of. Both show languished for a full season at the bottom of the ratings pit, but CBS and NBC gave them a second shot and, the rest, as they say, is history.
Advertisers need to grow a pair if they really want the television audience to sit up an take notice of their product and give networks allowance to give shows the time and space they need to grow wings.
Maybe writers and producers of shows should just write one good season and tell the networks where to go when they say they want a second season! Every TV season will just bring us new stuff to watch and be done with when the season is over.
First blood ties and now moonlight? This has been a bad week for vamp fans, but thank goodness there is still hope for both seasons!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
damn.
Moonlight was and still is a great show.They deserve a 2nd chance. If it weren’t for the writers strike, I think more would have tuned into Moonlight. Some other network should jump at the chance to have Moonlight on the fall schedule. Alex O’Loughlin, Sophia Myles and Jason Dohring have such great chemistry together, it would truly be a shame to just let it go. They deserve another chance, not to mention they won the Peoples choice awards, that should count for something, Listen to the people, we want “Moonlight””!
With the movie, Twilight, coming out later this year, vampires are certainly “in” so we need to find a new home for our show!!
moonlightline.com
moonlight-united.com
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PLEASE, write, call and email the CW, FX, Sci-Fi and the USA network!!
This fight ain’t over!!
If your not renewing Moonlight maybe another show will pick it up like The Sci – Fi Channel.
Please Bring Back
Moonlight!
Moonlight is my favorite show!! Alex O’Loughlin is the bomb!! Please listen to the fans and bring it back– somewhere.
So Nina Tassler at CBS says basically that all the emails about Moonlight being sent to her have died down, so she takes that to mean that CBS made the right decision in cancelling Moonlight? What an idiot! When CBS made it abundantly clear that they weren’t going to renew Moonlight no matter how much the fans pleaded, what was the point in us continuing the CBS avenue? We simply started pursuing other options. CBS made the WRONG decision! I banned CBS from my viewing schedule won’t be watching any CBS shows anymore!
Well, Nina has made herself the “special friend” of many a Moonlight fan at this point, with what she said the other day.
I hope she enjoys all her mail, as she’s about to get quite the pile of it.
She’s simply trying to demoralize the fans and make us go away.
Sorry, Nina…that’s just not going to happen.
Lees
I can’t believe they cancelled this show. I love this show and it’s the closest thing to Buffy that I’ve seen in a long time. Alex is definitely the bomb and I’m begging someone else to pick this show up please!!!
I am so very disappointed that Moonlight has been canceled, how could the cbs executives do this, don”t they realize what a large fan base this show has, please reconsider and give it another chance. I am very annoyed with cbs fx for having any part of thid, just when the show was starting to get better and better, don”t they want to please their fans. BRING MOONLIGHT BACK PLEASE
bring moonlight back for the sake of all us vampire lovers, it was just starting to get better and better Please for our sakes
i am very disappointed that moonlight will not be on. It made a very good night of television even better.!!!!!!!!!!! Please bring it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CBS signed Alex O’loughlin to a contract because they now realize that they blew it by cancelling Moonlight. They knew some other network was likely to pick up Moonlight as a mid-season replacement, so they signed him so that they could put a final “nail in the coffin” of Moonlight. They were scared that if someone else picked up Moonlight it would be a big success, and that would validate that they blew it! Nina Tessler was scared she would be shown to have a tin ear and bad judgement. CBS and Tessler now realize that cancelling Moonlight was worse than a crime, it was a blunder! Showing there ignorance and arrogance yet again. If they cared about their fans more than their ego, they would admit their mistake and bring back Moonlight.
CBS should at least “finish†the story. At least they did that when they brought back Jericho; we got some sort of closure with the second season. CBS is not so nice with Moonlight. Too many unanswered questions. I need to know: Where will Mick and Beth’s relationship go? Will she ever decide to be turned? Will he start drinking her blood? What about Sarah? Will she ever wake up? Will Josef have to deal with his “Love†returning to him? Will Sarah be pissed off? I want to see flashbacks to Josef’s younger days. What was he like when he was first turned? We only got introduced to these characters and still know so little about them. CBS needs to be nice and give us back Moonlight. I watch very little TV. So much of it is the same. I don’t watch any of the CSI show’s anymore, nor Law and Order, nor most sitcoms. They are all so much the same. I am not into vampire shows either, as a rule. I just happened to like Moonlight. I like that Mick and Josef are vampires and I like that Beth is okay with that. CBS lost me as a viewer, be CBS took away my show. Sure I like Alex and might watch him in something else, but I loved Moonlight because the characters where interesting, and it made for an interesting show.
Nina Tassler is a fool, and a big one. Her comments have repeatedly shown that she did not grasp the magnitude of the Moonlight cancellation. All she does is attempt to minimize the importance of its cancellation, which just makes us more disgusted with her. And signing Alex O’Loughlin and no one else from Moonlight, and still not renewing Moonlight? Yup, I’m even more disgusted.
She will soon see the problems with her machinations when the 8 million Moonlight fans cease watching CBS completely, as I have. It, of course, wouldn’t and didn’t make much impact during the summer because of all of the reruns, but it will this fall.
I think CBS will realize their folly when Twilight gets huge box office this September, and True Blood on HBO has already been renewed for a second season, after only four episodes, so you know it has to be doing well. Vampire mania is about to hit big in the TV/film medium. It’s been big for a while in print. Vampire serials (romance and non-romance) have been doing well for a number of years now. But once Twilight hits and the buzz around True Blood continues, I think CBS is going to be mourning their vampire that got away. That were too dumb to know what they had. And the press surrounding the show they plan to put in Moonlight’s old time slot (9 p.m. Friday EST) is already horrible. No wonder viewers are abandoning broadcast networks in droves.
Maybe if we all watched the above-mentioned Sanctuary on Sci Fi on Fridays at 9 pm (Moonlight’s time slot),CBS will get the message and Sci Fi will be happy to have us on board and consider our need for Mick and crew…
everybody should boycott CBS and then write letters in by saying if you want us to watch your network you know what to do cbs because your right that was the best show ever created everything fit together like jigsaw puzzle plus i guess the era of tv when shows where good show actually were made for the viewers not for the ratings are gone now
I am so upset that you have taken off Moonlight. I generally watch only CBS stations but i am so upset over this that i might change to movies only. take some of thoes stupid sitcoms off or some of the reality shows and give us some entertainment with feeling. Bad choice CBS. Very BAD.
like i said cbs being sooo unfair, stop thinking ABOUT YOURSELVES!! DUHH! bring back moonlight by the way!! 🙂
I am from Australia and I really enjoyed Moonlight. I had never watched any type of vampire show before, but quickly fell for the show and stars. They all worked so well together and made it all seem possible.
Unfortunately Moonlight was shown late at night here and did not attract the audience it should have if shown at a reasonable time.
I too think they left the show up in the air. I have started watching BBC programs. I am sick of cops and court shows. They are just the same stories over and over again.
I would love to see another network pick Moonlight up.