Boomtown comes back (briefly) according to Zap2it:
NBC Sets 'Boomtown' Blowout Bonanza
(Thursday, December 11 04:17 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The critically admired, but ratings starved drama "Boomtown" is set to make a fleeting return to NBC's schedule at the end of December. The network will air all four remaining new episodes of the drama in a two-night marathon on Saturday, Dec. 27 and Sunday, Dec. 28.
Saturday, Dec. 27 will find NBC showing three consecutive unaired episodes of "Boomtown." The night will begin with the episode titled "Wannabe" at 8 p.m. ET, followed by "Haystack" at 9 p.m.. The night concludes with "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang."
The next evening, NBC will present "The Big Picture" at 10 p.m. That episodes contains cameos by Virginia Madsen and the one and only Howard Hesseman.
All four unseen episodes feature guest star Vanessa Williams, who was recruited to try to turn Graham Yost's cop drama into a popular success in its sophomore season.
After averaging more than 10 million viewers per night on Sundays last season, "Boomtown" shifted to Fridays this year. Only two episodes aired this season, averaging only 7.2 million viewers between them. NBC put "Boomtown" on hiatus in early October and moved "Third Watch" into its place in the schedule, where the John Wells drama has noticeably aided Friday ratings.
The network officially pulled the plug on the show in early November
I liked Boomtown. Sadly, it had Jason Gedrick in the cast, so it was sort of a miracle that it got a whole season at all. His series always get cancelled.
Also, Friday night = kiss of death yet again. (Not that Firefly wouldn't have sold its eyeteeth to get those ratings.)
I liked it too. Sigh. I'll miss McNorris, the twisted little bastard.
(I found myself falling in love, to my shock and horror, with a former New Kid On The Block. It was a thing.)
(But Ray was my favorite. Okay, and the way that Ray and McNorris were the two smartest characters, and both knew it, and loathed each other cordially. I liked the interplay of their different definitions of what a right guy should be.)
(I found myself falling in love, to my shock and horror, with a former New Kid On The Block. It was a thing.)
I know! It was sort of horrifying to discover that he could act. And well. Husband just finished watching Band of Brothers, with which Graham Yost was involved, and both Wahlberg and...hell, what's his name, Neil something...the guy who plays McNorris are in it, and they're both really good in that too.
damn the costumers are lazy
Word, ita. The fact that they're supposed to be thousands and thousands of years separated from Earth humans makes their cultural similarity (down to the upholstered chairs in the doctor's office!) utterly implausible. Not just lazy costumers, then, but lazy production design overall. Pfeh.
I never saw any Boomtown. Maybe it'll come out on dvd?
One can only hope. The first season really had some great stuff.
Word, ita. The fact that they're supposed to be thousands and thousands of years separated from Earth humans makes their cultural similarity (down to the upholstered chairs in the doctor's office!) utterly implausible. Not just lazy costumers, then, but lazy production design overall. Pfeh.
(Grudginly acknowledges the point) My fandom remains intact though.
I hope it does too -- season 1 was great. What they did to it to make it "popular" messed it up -- so what little we saw of season 2 was less good.
