TV GUIDE: Ask Matt: Cancellations (Last Resort, Ben and Kate), Smash, Switched at Birth
Jan 28, 2013
by Matt Roush
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... Question: I will forgive you for not giving a shout-out on last Tuesday's playlist to the thrilling two-part series finale for Flashpoint that Ion buried in an 11/10c timeslot with absolutely no advertising. Are there any other Canadian TV imports worth checking out? I caught the pilot for Continuum, which didn't blow me away but seemed promising. Secondly, I heard that Nikita did horribly in the Friday-at-9/8c time slot ratings-wise (not sure if the show is doing better in the 8/7c slot). Do you know if this will be the last season of Nikita, or are expectations low enough for Fridays that it could be renewed for another season? — Brian
Matt Roush: My apologies on not calling attention to the end of Flashpoint (though it would have been helpful if the PTB at Ion or the production company had ever flagged it to our attention). That really was peculiar scheduling for an acquired first-run series that you'd think Ion might have used to bolster the brand. Regarding Canadian series: If you're a Syfy fan, you might check out the kinky Lost Girl on the same night as Continuum My own two all-time Canadian favorites, which coincidentally both star Paul Gross but otherwise couldn't be more different, are Due South (the crime dramedy about the transplanted Mountie) and the brilliant theatrical comedy Slings & Arrows (of which there are the most fragile of rumors that it could someday return for a fourth season). ABC's summer entry Rookie Blue is probably the most successful current import.
Regarding Nikita: It's always going to live on the bubble season to season. But this weekend's episode was its highest-rated in more than a year, so that's a good sign. And this is a case where ratings aren't as much of an issue — on The CW, are they ever? — as it is the studio building an inventory of episodes for syndication, where action series like this can do well here and abroad. So I'm cautiously (and hopefully) optimistic we'll see a fourth season, though I wouldn't be shocked either way...
Continuum airs Monday at 8/7C on Syfy. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR 'WASTING TIME' AIRS JANUARY 28, 2013.
Lost Girl airs Monday at 10/9C on Syfy. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR 'CONFAEGION' AIRING JANUARY 28, 2013.
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