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[Mr. Sobell]

With HBO reportedly getting ready to pull the plug, feel free to share your cancellation-related thoughts here.

[drabauer]

Who is tvblogger, and why should we listen to him/her?

[MyDogHasFleas]

With HBO reportedly getting ready to pull the plug, feel free to share your cancellation-related thoughts here.

• That sucks. There is no way this will be wrapped up satisfactorily in two more shows. We'll be left hanging.
• Well at least we got to see one season of this. I was enthralled by it.
• "The audience is listening..." ?? bullshit. The audience is stupid and impatient.
• Is there anything we can do to change their minds? Any websites organizing a protest?

[Cathode Tube]

I guess Shaun will soon be gone.

Seriously, this show drives me buggy, yet I can't stop watching, so I thank HBO for putting me and the show out of our misery.

Edited by Cathode Tube, Aug 1, 2007 @ 4:39 PM.

[AuntiePam]

I feel bad for viewers who were getting something out of the show. I didn't, and it's probably my fault (small brain and all). I hope this doesn't make HBO leery about future projects that are sort of experimental, but they did give us Carnivale, Oz, and The Wire, so canceling JFC isn't a bad sign. I hope.

I wonder what this means for the Deadwood movies.

[Sir Donald]

It's a tragedy if it's true.

[Lila82]

Any chance Brian Van Holt has a development deal with HBO like Austin Nichols does? Cause I liked the guy before this show, but now I think I'd watch anything he touches because I am so enthralled with Butchie Yost.

I also don't think that cancelling JFC will bring back "Deadwood." That show had a whole slew of its own problems, including a third season that made no freaking sense. With or without the movies, the third season will never have the coherence it was intended to have. If the rumor's true, I'm not all that surprised -- the DW mess created a situation where JFC never had a fighting chance.

[sallyrover]

Seems like the biggest ghost that JFC had to contend with wasn't the one in Room 24 but the ones in the Gem Saloon. I'm holdng out for further confirmation on if JFC is truly cancelled, but sooner or later, Milch will have something up his sleeve.

Edited by sallyrover, Aug 1, 2007 @ 7:03 PM.

[TeresaDee]

Seems like the biggest ghost that JFC had to contend with wasn't the one in Room 24 but the ones in the Gem Saloon.

...or, dare I say, at the Bada-Bing. I would guess that the last thing most Sopranos fans (myself included) were planning to do immediately after the finale was to try out a new series. I taped (yes, I'm a dinosaur) the first 2 JFC episodes, and watched them right before the airing of the 3rd--it took me that long to be ready. Though I'm pleased as punch to see familiar "names" on this forum, I know that many others who might have appreciated this quirky show moved on in other directions.

The timing was not the best. :(

[TWoP Mars]

I can't find any news stories confirming this, and I removed TV Blogger's unattributed content as possible copyright violation. Until we have an official news story about this, it's unconfirmed, as far as I can tell.

So ... feel free to talk in this thread about the possibility of cancellation, and an announcement when/if there is one. But I don't think it's certain.

Edited by TWoP Mars, Aug 1, 2007 @ 7:44 PM.

[kq338]

I really hope the end is not near. I have watched this show almost every day, once a day, since ep1. It's like a puzzle you can't put down.

[walnutqueen]

I can't find any news stories confirming this

Thanks for checking it out, TWoP Mars. If this show is cancelled, it may be the last nail in my HBO coffin. I'm with kq338 - I just can't get enough of JFC.

[homerofthesea]

With or without the movies, the third season will never have the coherence it was intended to have.

I loved the third season of "Deadwood", and I don't think I'm alone. The only season I had a problem with was the first, when the show was still finding its voice.


Anyways, I really like JFC, and if those HBO cocksuckers cancel it before giving it a fair shake, I'll be pissed. It's just getting good!

[Sir Donald]

I see no reason to keep HBO if they cancel JFC. First Deadwood, then The Sopranos, now JFC? There isn't anything that is worth the price anymore. Entourage, Big Love, Flight?? Get serious!!

[thatguy01]

HBO's coming off my system anyway, because I'm not interested in anything else they have. I'll be watching in case there's a JFC repeat marathon, because there's an ep I don't have recorded.

There was a Deadwood S3 repeat marathon a few weeks after the finale, but there's nothing on HBO's schedule in August or Sept after the week of the JFC finale.

[Jimmie Mook]

I really hope the end is not near. I have watched this show almost every day, once a day, since ep1. It's like a puzzle you can't put down.

I'm with you. I've been as entertained by JFC as much as anything I've seen on TV. To me it's been a triumph of execution over concept. I remember reading the synopsis for the show before it began, and I sneered and thought, "utterly lame." But then I read a review of it by one of my favorite entertainment writers and he said that it was a must see. (He also loves Flight of the Conchords. I do too.) So I tuned in. The very first scene had me hooked. The casting, the acting, the dialogue and the location have been more than enough to make the basic concept work for me. It's been said before, but JFC reminds me of something that a slightly less insane David Lynch might come up with, and I have always loved some of Lynch''s work. JFC has the same mysterious, dreamy quality of a self-contained universe that is a lot of fun to be immersed in. It reminds me of Blue Velvet in that respect and like Blue Velvet, it mixes humor into a serious and sometimes frightening story. I like thinking about JFC when I'm not watching it and at work there are a couple of other people who watch it and we are constantly cracking each other up by using JFC dialogue.

It depends on how they wrap it up, but I'll buy the DVD and it will be one of my favorite movies.

[Morticuy]

Enough of the Deadwood prophets declaring the end of JFC...you don't know anything, nor does your imaginary friend, aunt, uncle, brother-in-law, or parrot at HBO, and it is painfully obvious to all. I have never seen such a bunch of whiners in my life as the lot of Deadwood junkies who bemoan the series cancellation and anything else HBO produces except for the "never gonna happen" Deadwood movie. It had a nice run, and now it is time for something different...that is it, now take it like a man (or woman) and move on...geesh!

[Lucille]

Enough of the Deadwood prophets declaring the end of JFC...you don't know anything, nor does your imaginary friend, aunt, uncle, brother-in-law, or parrot at HBO, and it is painfully obvious to all.

Wordy McWord Word WORD, Morticuy! Motives are blinkered in invisible messages from invisible sources.

I don't know Butchie instead.

Edited by Lucille, Aug 2, 2007 @ 3:18 PM.

[thatguy01]

you don't know anything, nor does your imaginary friend, aunt, uncle, brother-in-law, or parrot at HBO, and it is painfully obvious to all.

So, you're saying I should deny myself telepathic information from my imaginary parrot to spare you irritation?

[Morticuy]

Two stop bus ride, thatguy01, from citing yourself as a source to fuckin’ turning into a full-blown megalomaniac

Edited by Morticuy, Aug 2, 2007 @ 3:25 PM.

[sallyrover]

And I grind my teeth at night...

According to Yahoo TV, JFC is averaging "4.5 million viewer cumulatively," which ain't bad at all. Though I did wonder if that was 4.5 distinct viewers or 1.2 million watching every episode 4 times (which also wouldn't surprise me!).

As regards me pertaining to any alledged cancellation, I'm keeping a levitating thought until I hear otherwise from forces greater than some "mytube or whatever" character--portal capacity not withstanding. This show might be a tricky sell, but it is in HBO's interest to hold on as long as it's making some dough in relationship to production costs. I'd be curious to know what the reaction has been around the globe, or for pre-sales to other countries. I bet JFC would do great in Australia and Ireland and countries where the TV is more challenging and where they are used to giving proven talents money and keeping the interference level down. Like Linc says--"better the Devil you know." Developing, scripting, filming and promoting a FRESH series is more tricky than nurturing a show with a strong (if still growing) fan base, which JFC does have.

[Lucille]

sallyrover is a treasure trove of information and hope!

[SuzN]

I also don't think that cancelling JFC will bring back "Deadwood." That show had a whole slew of its own problems, including a third season that made no freaking sense. With or without the movies, the third season will never have the coherence it was intended to have. If the rumor's true, I'm not all that surprised -- the DW mess created a situation where JFC never had a fighting chance.

Thank you! I thought I was the lone voice in the wilderness who was dissatisfied with season three of DW and decidedly not mourning it.

I would hate for JFC to not have a chance at another season. I have mixed feelings about it, but I think it deserves more time.

[Puds38]

No cancelation notice yet, just a brief mention in Hollywood Reporter that is hasn't been renewed yet.
In talking about the possibility of the Deadwood movies ever happening the response was;

........Another factor that will play a part in resuming production in "Deadwood" will be the fate of Milch's new series, "John From Cincinnati," which Plepler spoke supportively of but stopped short of a renewal announcement.

ETA: I linked to this from a blurb on AICN that was talking about JFC being canceled.

Edited by Puds38, Aug 2, 2007 @ 4:48 PM.

[puck101]

I spoke to Ellen Gray at the Philly Daily News. She said that the show is performing poorly (worse than Big Love) -- you know that 4.5M has got to be fancy-math. BUT she hasn't heard about cancellation and said she thought it was possibly they might renew if only to delay the DW rumpus (doubt the movies will happen myself). She did say the new guys at HBO are kind of "at sea" since Albecht's deparure.

[Fisher King]

Cancellation does not ring a bell.

[sallyrover]

"Without the zeroes and ones, Big and Huge won't mean dick."

[Fisher King]

See God, HBO.

[Lucille]

"Getting dusted won't be an issue."

[Fisher King]

To TPTB at HBO:

♪ If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all the bees ♪