goldenboy2191 t1_ja943lx wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:25 PM

Reply to comment by EphraimJenkins in ‘I Still Don’t Know What It Was’ An oral history of Kings, the ambitious, expensive, proudly weird drama on which NBC bet its prestige future and lost. by KalamsLongknife

And that’s why it died on network tv. Network is for safe bets (cop shows, lawyer shows, hospital shows) anything outside of those almost always die

alecsgz t1_ja9skyq wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:59 PM

There is an article on tvline regarding 2023 pilot season. You nailed 90% of the new shows.

https://tvline.com/lists/pilot-season-abc-cbs-cw-fox-nbc-2023-2024/abc-pilots-2023-2024/

I usually read them to see if there is a new sci fi show on the horizon.

Also lots of The Good xxxx or spin offs of The Good yyyy

dawn_chorus__ t1_jado08y wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:10 PM

But you have those rare examples like Lost or Heroes. Kings was a show along those same lines, with a mythology. I guess the ratings just weren’t there. The show wasn’t perfect but it was so different and I just wanted to learn more about the world they were building. Definitely a show where I wish I could visit some alternate timeline where they ended up making 5 seasons or so of it.