ABC’s ‘Revenge’ season 4: Network boss on Emily VanCamp series’ future
Unlike another show in “Castle” mentioned at ABC’s TCA Winter Press Tour panel on Wednesday, “Revenge” is not dealing with a problem when it comes to contracts. The show is only in its fourth season, so in theory, there is still plenty of time left for it to continue telling some of its stories.
Instead, the issue that this particular show is facing is one as simple as getting people to watch. The show fell to a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic Sunday, and there were not even excuses like “NFL Football was on” or “Talking Dead competition” to really justify it. The show has just lost steam, which we blame on a number of different factors, from the confusing David Clarke story to really just the show getting a little too campy over time. There’s also not a whole lot of direction or an endgame for a show at this point in the run. We still enjoy it, but we understand why others are tuning out.
ABC head Paul Lee did not offer up any reassurances during his presentation, save for saying that he “really loves the show” and that “they have some great storylines coming up this year.” Elena Satine was recently made a series regular, which presumably is not the sort of thing you do to a show that thinks that it is in its final season.
We still contend that creatively, what we would love to see take place here is for “Revenge” to get a renewal for a fifth and final season, even if it is shortened to around 13 episodes or so. Closure is important for any show, and fans would probably give some props to ABC for allowing it to go out on its own terms.
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Ylopez
January 16, 2015 @ 2:20 am
The ratings were so low because, the Golden globe awards were on. They also had a new series start out Sunday’s line up. ABC has killed this show little by little. Moving it from Wednesday, then changing time to 10. Not sticking to the Mike Kelly storyline. There are so many new things going on. This show is all over the place. There are like four stories lines going on. Having nothing to do with Emily’s story. Get back to that. Have come out ahead again. She is the heroine not the bad guy. Now she is abducted by this Malcom. Stop the Madness already. Get the Jack and Emily find they are meant for each other. Jack can be the good guy but give him some Aiden qualities too. Wrighters can do it. They just are not good Wrighters anymore. Go back to season two and start from there.
Guest
January 15, 2015 @ 7:19 pm
“We still contend that creatively, what we would love to see take place here is for “Revenge” to get a renewal for a fifth and final season, even if it is shortened to around 13 episodes or so.”
Creatively, not much is happening, quit dragging out the revenge and end the series. The fact that it even got a 0.8 says as much.
It was actually tree
January 28, 2015 @ 7:40 am
It was actually quite a good episode