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
This show does not stink, i personally don’t see what doesn’t make the show interesting. I love it. Every episode has made me waiting for more. I think it’s a lot better than lost.
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.