As expected, ABC has picked up FlashForward for a full season.
The Lost wannabe (and could be) has been a solid performer on Thursday night, boosting ABC’s 8 pm time period 32 percent over last year (when Ugly Betty aired there). Even more impressive, its premiere episode was the first regular program since Friends to beat Survivor in the 18-49 demo.
ABC ordered an additional (and above-average) 12 episodes of the show, bringing its season 1 total to 25.
The FlashForward pick-up comes just days after ABC granted full seasons to freshman comedies The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougar Town.
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Hey at least they will air their April 29th, 2010 or whatever the date of the supposed FlashForward occurs. It’ll also be interesting where they go from there… if they get renewed.
EPIC FAIL – this show stinks – characters have to be the most intelligent people on Earth to piece together clues and make jumps in logic on the first episode – I will stick with LOST and Fringe to get my mystery fix
Re-DON-kulus – if ABC can pick up this crap why couldn’t NBC pick up the great SouthLand – inexcusable -only tv worth watching:
LOST
FRINGE
Big Bang Theory
30 Rock
It does not stink. It is good!! What do you want a reality show? If I can’t have Southland I can at least have flash forward
Fantastic. Now what about CASTLE?
We won’t have to worry about Castle for a few months! It has a second season underway and is doing pretty good!
you mean “LOSTwannaBe” not “wannane” =]
One show I’m hoping ABC cancels – Brothers & Sisters. The show is getting stale. I mean how many times can a family meet every week for dinner? It happened twice last episode!
Its a great show! How dare you!
And it’s not exactly doing horribly in the ratings….It’s roughly 50% up on Castle…
actually I have to agree, The great Sally Field is wasted in this show!..I gave up midway through the 2nd season, the show became very redundant! ABC should have cancelled this and kept Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who?, The Unusuals, and Life On Mars! but go figure they keep this and kept According To Jim on the air for like 8 seasons instead!
Yay! So excited
I loved the premire and I love the premise. Plus it seems easier to understand (in a different way) than Lost.
…if you’ve been following Lost since Season 1, it IS NOT hard to understand.
It’s easier to understand because they spoon feed you ignorant americans everything of any importance 20 times during a 45 minute show.
This show is no where near the quality of LOST. Why don’t we stop calling Flashfoward the new LOST until it manages to have characters that are more than flat ciphers.
I think the only reason they call it the wannabe is because there are so many (at least 4 so far) characters that were/are on LOST.
4??? Where are you getting that? Who else besides Dominic Monaghan and Sonya Walger? Elizabeth Mitchell is on V.
First comment. Woohoo.
VERY excited about this.
okay not the first comment. Looks like I should have refreshed my page.
Still excited about this pickup though.
Guess ABC is winning …
Excellent. I really like this show thus far. And, do my eyes deceive me or is it possible there might *actually* be a second (that’s right, there’s only 1 right now) lesbian character on primetime television? Whatta concept.
Gosh I can’t even think of the other. Who is it?
Someone on Grey’s, right? (I don’t watch Grey’sAnat.)
Indeed, it’s the character of Arizona on “Grey’s”, the only lesbian character on all 4 networks’ scripted series, drama and comedy. (A bisexual woman is not a lesbian, just to be clear.)
What character is this? Hawk?
In theory (if the preview and all the hints they’ve been dropping are anything to go by).
Now that’s The L Word is over, are there any lesbians on other channel at all?
Ming-Na on Stargate Universe is.
I hope it becomes more appointment TV soon, because, like, it’s good and all, but its just shouts out every episode that all we’re seeing is the beginning of some complex mythology. LOST slowly brought that in, via a high concept idea. This just went in bang-zoom and tries to keep us there.
Somebody told me this show was kind of like Jericho. I slapped that person as hard as I could, stabbed them with a dinner fork, and now they’re buried in my back yard.
Jericho, indeed.
It’s a hell of a lot better than Lost, that’s for sure.
Not sure why you did that. People keep comparing it to Lost for some reason, but it’s much closer in style to Jericho. For better or, mostly, for worse.
I agree with chiefc. This show had some certain similarities as far as storytelling is concerned to my beloved Jericho (a major world event but only one group of people bcomes the center of the whole ordeal). But there’s some Lost-like stuff in it too.
Personally I would rather have Jericho back over Flashforward. At least Jericho was richly original in its concept and didnt push “Lost wannabe” in your faces like this show does.
So… how many episodes? 22?
Does this show have any real “buzz”? Sure it has ratings, but I don’t hear any watercooler conversations about it the next day at work like other new shows – Modern Family, Cougartown, Glee or the new NCIS.
If the show has ratings, that’s really the primary goal. Lots of shows have “buzz” — Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, Buffy — but their ratings aren’t never got close to what Flashforward has generated to this point and that’s what the networks really want: viewers not just talkers.
really NCIS and Cougartown have buzz.. where the heck is your watercooler?.. 7 Eleven?
Modern Family is horrible.
What is the show going to do when it passes the six-month mark in the current storyline (when presumably they will solve the mystery of the worldwide blackout)? I fear this is yet another show that will have a very engaging first season storyline, and then fall flat after that. It’s trying to be the next Lost, but it could end up being the next Heroes.
apparently the blackout happened before.. so the cause behind the blackout does not necessarily have to be explained before april 10th. so therefore the main storyline, the blackout/flashfoward, can still continue even after everyones current vision is fulfilled, just a thought
I’m with you on this show being the next “Heroes”. Great concept, but poor dialogue and i don’t know how they managed to get cheesy performances from terrific actors (Courtney B. Vance: you’re better than that! I love Sonya Walger and Joseph Fiennes, but have you noticed they go in and out of their American accent. What? Was their a shortage of American actors?!? This show better shape up before it starts losing the “Lost” targeted audience.
Yes! I was worried because I’m in love with this show and have been burned so many times. I’m also really excited about the lesbian character – anything’s better than the neutered couple on Grey’s!
FlashFoward was a great concept, but it just didn’t click. By the way the ratings are for it, most people aren’t sticking around with it either. ABC better hope its audience stops droppings, because its what is happening to their comedies too. They gave full season pickups way to early, especially to the comedies, they are still bleeding viewers.
“They gave full season pickups way to early” — I disagree completely. I think networks need to commit to shows… otherwise, why should the audience? Why watch a show if you’re not sure if it’s going to last more than a few weeks? Networks should give shows more time to build their audiences.
I’m loving the show so far and am glad to see it got picked up! Now we’ll at least make it to the April 29 flashforwards so if it doesn’t get picked up for season 2, it’ll have a complete story arc. I wonder where they’ll go from there.
Yay! Now ABC just needs to give Castle its back nine and I’ll be happy! Woot!
If ABC were to commit to “Castle” I’d probably watch but I don’t want to get into yet another show that winds up getting canceled just as I fall in love with it. I’ve had my heart broken too many times, I need commitment!
I thought they already did?
So glad they’ve extended Lost for another season! Yay! Oh… wait… haha, no I love this show. Fantastic.
Awesome! I love this show.
I’m very happy to hear this news.. I have been burned by ABC a few times in the last few years and am happy to hear that all of the shows I am watching on their network will at least last the season. I really liked Dirty Sexy Money last year and I loved The Nine the season before that..
Yeah, I’m still bitter about The Nine. Good show, shabby execution, but I would have liked it to last at least one season, so we could see the outcome of the bank robbery.
Awesome! I really enjoy FlashForward, but after ABC cancelled Life on Mars last year I’ve been hesitant about getting too involved in one of their new shows.
Great news! Just very hopeful that Castle will get picked up for a full season, too!
I’m going to give it a couple more episodes before I decide if I want to keep on watching it.It just seems so boring to me.The characters aren’t that great and some of the acting is way overdone.They need to make some big discoveries to keep my attention instead of some old guy talking about a bunch of dead crows.
I completely agree. Good think Dominic Monaghan is starting this week. I like the concept, but it’s nowhere near the genius that LOST is.
I’m very happy about this! I’m so tired of having shows I like pulled off the air prematurely (“The Nine”… “Defying Gravity”… the list goes on and on). It’s gotten to the point where I TiVo the first several week’s worth of a show, and don’t watch until I’ve heard if that the show is going to last a while!
I LOVED the Nine! I was so heartbroken when it was yanked. Chi McBride was awesome (as always) and I enjoyed the storyline too. I guess you and I are the only ones who tuned in, though. I hope FF has stamina because I’m getting hooked again.
No – I watched The Nine too. So that makes three of us.
Correction…four of us:)
*eyes bugging out” WHAT Defying Gravity is really gone for good? I loved that show. (Nine too.) If they have un-aired shows, I hope ABC is smart enough to show those on Saturdays like they did with Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, and Dirty, Sexy, Money.
What lesbian character? Why can’t people just be concerned with seeing a good show than trying to county how many Gay or minority characters are in a show. So annoying to read comments where that’s people’s #1 concern. I care if the show is actually good. Crazy, I know.
And FF is actually very good. “Lost”? No…but really good and better than “Jericho”. (though “Jericho” was solid). And the entire writing staff would have to commit mass suicide on set to be as bad as “Heroes”, arguably, the worst written show on Television, and that’s saying a lot considering what airs on CBS.
Oh, David. If there was exactly 1 straight male character on scripted television I’m betting you, too, would notice when another straight, male character appeared on your television.
Exactly, Leigh.
We care because we want to see “ourselves” represented in what’s supposed to be the real world. And let’s be frank, it’s no one’s #1 concern – it’s more of a “wow that’s aweesome” moment when you see they’ve taken steps to make you feel included in their persistent world.
Yay awesome! Totally loved the first episodes, really like the story. I was kinda worried ABC wouldn’t pick it up for a full season because it wasn’t included with the other shows, but thankfully, ABC has some brains left.
That’s nice to hear. It’s not a great show but it’s an enjoyable watch.
YAYYY SO EXCITED