bill norris jr. wrote:

i cant believe NBC. The Black Donnellys is a great show. I actually tape other shows so i can sit back relax and watch this one. Darn you NBC. Third Watch and now this. How about putting some of your cool cancelled shows out on dvd already. At least that way i can sit and watch that while nbc puts other pap on the tube. If the networks keep killin their shows im just gonna stop watching and wait for them to just go directly to dvd so i can enjoy them without fear of cancelation.

posted at April 3, 2007 09:09 PM

Sue wrote:

PLEASE tell network execs to keep Men in Trees on the air!!! Contrary to popular belief, the American public is sick to death of ever increasingly stupid reality TV shows! We need good comedy/dramas, not more ridiculous reality junk.

posted at April 4, 2007 05:54 PM

Steph wrote:

I cannot believe the Black Donnellys has been cut and replaced by another stupid (staged) reality show. Hey, I have an idea, move it next to a show with a similar audiance, not behind a kid sci-fi......

posted at April 5, 2007 12:18 AM

Dan Steinmiller wrote:

I'm super pissed about Six Degrees - the show is great and all but the long break killed it. The show had so much momentum before it was pulled originally and by putting it on Fridays didn't help matters either. When will ABC learn: Friday is a dead zone. As for the Black Donnellys, I'm very surprised. It started out rough with the pilot episode but since then its gotten so much better and I've become a big fan of the show. Let's just hope NBC doesn't make the same mistake as ABC by bringing the show back after a long period of time passes by.

posted at April 5, 2007 01:44 AM

Ann wrote:

If you want to try to save the Black Donnellys sign the online petition

posted at April 5, 2007 02:22 PM

NATALIE wrote:

I am really beginging to hate NBC...it has hit a downfall since friends left. First it cancelled JOEY and many more in between...now The Black Donnellys!!! WTF! I am very mad and would like to have a sit down with the person who picks and chooses the shows on this channel because they have NO taste whatsoever!!!

posted at April 5, 2007 03:52 PM

Eric wrote:

The Black Donnellys is a great show that I'm going to really miss. I thought NBC was headed towards a killer Monday line-up with Heroes and TBD but sadly it won't happen. I just hope they spare Friday Night Lights!

posted at April 6, 2007 04:11 AM

Bryan wrote:

Where is the petition?

posted at April 6, 2007 11:17 AM

Nicole wrote:

The Black Donnellys should NOT be cancelled

posted at April 6, 2007 12:30 PM

Pam wrote:

I really loved the Black Donnelly's. It is a great show. Maybe they will rethink the position. I have not missed a show yet

posted at April 6, 2007 03:03 PM

Chris wrote:

I can't believe that NBC would cancel the Black Donnellys!!!! It is my favorite show. NBC keeps the crappy shows and gets rid of all the good ones. No wonder they are doing so bad in the ratings!! They don't give the shows a chance to build an audience. Shows are canceled before most people even hear about them - NBC doesn't advertise their shows and then can't understand why they are last all the time!! Wake up!! And keep The Black Donnellys!!!!

posted at April 6, 2007 04:00 PM

Ryan Ashby wrote:

Uhhhh NBC, maybe it's not the show you put on at 10/9 on monday night, maybe it's the time slot. Why in hell is Studio 60 not on? Jeffery Zucker puts it the wrong slot and wonders why it got those ratings? What is this, a government job where you can screw everything up, then get a promotion? Put STUDIO 60 back on tv.

posted at April 7, 2007 01:08 AM

jayne wrote:

I LOVE The Black donnellys!!! everyone i know watches it TOO where is NBC getting there Ratings from!!! Everytime a Hit comes out they axe It GIVE IT A CHANCE TO CATCH ON!!!!!!

posted at April 7, 2007 02:24 PM

Mike wrote:

I can't believe NBC is going to cut the Black Donnelly. It is one of the best new shows. NBC doesn't care about nobody except themselves. What about all the Black Donnelly Fans. I really thought NBC was making a comeback, but I guess I was wrong. NBC only took one step forward and 10 steps backward.

posted at April 8, 2007 10:44 AM

joann wrote:

Black Donnellys petition

http://petitionspot.com/petitions/Donnellys

posted at April 8, 2007 09:22 PM

Gavin Swick wrote:

Do not give up people. Write, call, e-mail NBC and tell them the mistake they are making. Did they think any brand new show could compete after 2 hours of "Deal or No Deal" and against March Madness? What would have happened had people not talked online and everywhere else about "The Office" or "Scrubs" even after less than stellar ratings during their first few seasons? This is a show that can't afford to be axed. Watch the episode online on Monday and do anything in your power to tell NBC what's up! Never underestimate the power of the people. If Tommy Donnelly can protect Jimmy from Huey and Sal, I think we can protect him from NBC's axe let him worry about Doakey's! Do your part and save a good show from being a complete series dvd in 3 months!

posted at April 9, 2007 05:09 AM

erin dennis wrote:

i could care less. all those shows suck!!!!!!!!!!!111

posted at April 9, 2007 12:34 PM

Pam wrote:

I hope they don't cancel The Black Donnellys - it's one of the best shows on tv!!! Who the heck decides these things?? They give us crap like Super Nanny or whatever it's called and take away quality shows like this, Joey, Third Watch?? And where the heck is Studio 60?? That's another show that has fabulous writers and actors - come on NBC - we are adults here! We LIKE gritty shows - not crap about out-of-control toddlers!

posted at April 9, 2007 01:54 PM

Stephenie wrote:

How long will we be subjected to these stupid reality shows. I loved the Black Donnellys, and can't believe it was replaced by Wedding Crashers????!!! I don't think this new show will do very well

posted at April 9, 2007 03:28 PM

Ivette wrote:

This season is the Worst-great new shows cancelled after 2, 3, 4 episodes. How can anyone expect every show to have Grey's or Survivor ratings immediately. Wake UP!! That's rare and replacing shows we just start to love with new shows will send us all to cable and DVD. The Class, Six Degrees, Black Donnelly's, Friday Lights, there are so many great shows cancelled/in danger it's disgusting. Nielsen means nothing - it doesn't truly measure what people are watching/taping/TiVO-ing/ LOVING !!!!!! WAKE UP NETWORKS

posted at April 9, 2007 05:52 PM

Aaron Johnson wrote:

Please tell the nbc executives to bring back studio 60

What really annoys me and a lot of other people
is why the hell that they suport a sopranos level drama such as "the black donnellys"
that should have been canceled after the third week
but since the black donnelly people who have degraded and mocked studio 50
to those people i say this: your show has fallen
you will NOT get away with your retarded excuses
any attempt to save "black donnellys" will fail
so those of you, so mocked "studio 60" , i suggest you write petition letters to the executives , before i get really pissed off at you people

posted at April 9, 2007 06:44 PM

Kyle wrote:

First off Sue, I totally agree about MEN IN TREES. That OCTOBER ROAD piece of crap better get pulled. MEN IN TREES was doing REALLY WELL following Grey's, if the network people forget that they are, not surprisingly, shooting themselves in the foot again.

As far as these shows, all of them pretty much suck. For all those wanting the DONNELLY'S show back, newsflash: the STUDIO 60 folks were saying the SAME EXACT THING. NBC should have just kept that show on; atleast it had somewhat of a developed audience when it got pulled. And let's face it, neither show fit following HEROES. What they should have done is aired either BATTLESTAR GALACTICA or PSYCH after HEROES on Monday's. The audience would have stuck around. And besides, that DONNELLY'S show I still will not renig on the similarities it has to that Showtime show "Brotherhood."

Also I can't believe this, and it's not due to Ratings, but HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER being on the bubble is absolutely pathetic. The exec's at CBS need to get their heads out of their asses.

posted at April 9, 2007 07:31 PM

Darcy wrote:

Sadly, Black Donnellys could not escape the curse of Oscar winning writers and actors getting axed on Mondays. Smith and Black Donnellys should both be picked up by F/X or HBO.

posted at April 9, 2007 08:22 PM

Cindy wrote:

I loved Six Degrees! And The Nine! Perhaps it is that people do not have the patience to get to know these characters week by week. They want stupid insipid stories about stupid insipid people with stupid insipid lives. There is PLENTY of those shows around.

posted at April 9, 2007 08:55 PM

Rolanda wrote:

I've finally found a Monday night line-up I enjoy Heores and the Black Donnellys. I've actually found myself clearing my schedule to be able to watch both shows. I really hope the show can survive.

posted at April 9, 2007 09:08 PM

A Mick wrote:

Can any show survive at 10pm Monday. Shame on you General Electric! This is the best show that you have had on in years. I guess Scrubbs is better written and acted. Give this show a real time slot and let it flurish!

posted at April 9, 2007 11:26 PM

Michael wrote:

I'll tell you why The Black Donnellys and Studio 60 can't find an audience... Because the execs at NBC have their collective heads up their asses! These are the same guys that kept bouncing Scrubs around the lineup and not advertising what night it was on. That and the majority of this country has a deep love for Reality Crap shows.

posted at April 10, 2007 12:51 AM

Jack wrote:

Black Donnelly's was unbelievable from the start. I love how an Irish boy finds his way in to an Italian Mob Boss and blows him away. Yeah, that's believable. NOT!
As for Studio 60, no one ever got what that show was about. I never watched it, because the commercials for it never explained the show well enough to interest me. So I never watched it.

posted at April 10, 2007 01:14 AM

Sean wrote:

I actually was getting into Six Degrees, until they decided to take it off the air for a few months....

posted at April 10, 2007 06:41 AM

Bill wrote:

But Eric, NBC does have a killer line-up on Monday night. Heros and TBD(To Be Determined)where they kill any show at 10 Eastern before it has time to grow an audience.

posted at April 10, 2007 09:22 AM

MonkeyCox wrote:

The Black Donnelly's was a good show. I agree that it shouldn't have been cancelled. However, seeing as it is a blantant rip-off of Showtime's Brotherhood, you can always just watch that instead. I know I will.

posted at April 10, 2007 10:56 AM

Jan K wrote:

I watch The Black Donnellys and The Wedding Bells, both quality programs with good writing and acting...just the recipe I guess for cancellation.

posted at April 11, 2007 09:25 AM

bananas wrote:

i cant believe they are going to replace the donnellys with a crappy ass reality show.. back to csi miami for me...

posted at April 11, 2007 05:59 PM

A wrote:

It's not so simple for shows to be picked up by the likes of HBO, F/X, or BRAVO. Shows like "BD" and "Smith" are expensive to make, and a lot of the costs are production, not people, so they cannot be trimmed all that much; even famous actors don't get paid a lot at first on these shows -- they have to wait for "hit" status to cash in. Heck, I'd love to see Smith, S60, and even Love Monkey make it on one of the cable networks, but money is a huge factor, at least when it comes to ordering new episodes. But why not burn off the unaired episodes this way? Or sell them as cheap downloads per episode? I have a feeling we are in the middle of a seachange in regards to how people watch TV, and it is going to really hurt the ability of new shows to gain traction/audiences. These days, the entire TV industry is like a B-movie backlot from the 1930s and '40s, when movies were made cheaply in a couple of days to pair with expensive main features. This isn't necessarily a bad thing and may actually help the networks when they start to realize that with DVRs and downloads, the viewers have gained a lot of control over what they watch and when they watch it. The very core of TV (making mass appeal product that appeals to the masses and therefore gets mass dollars from mass advertisers) is in danger. I think we'll see more new shows that are actually like mini-series -- say 6 to 12 episodes per show -- that begin and end in a fixed time period. Another reason why dramas fail to gain enough viewers early is that we are all tired of getting sucked into a storyline and have it yanked away so early that we're left without closure. An earlier blog entry bashed NBC for "only caring about itself." That's a laughable statement; of course NBC shares the same sentiment as all networks, since they are all major corporations: make us lots of money as cheaply and quickly as possible. How can viewers really expect anything else?

posted at April 12, 2007 05:48 PM

donchais wrote:

Damn, wish Zucker would share whatever drugs he has. You take the best show on your network and replace it with mindless drivel?

posted at April 18, 2007 04:33 PM

Stephen wrote:

I don't know why any of this is a surprise. They cancelled Boomtown. The best cop drama on primetime tv since H:Lots, which incidentally they also meddled with, and then cancelled, which was the best cop show in the history of television. NBC is notorious for eating it's young. The days of giving Seinfeld room to breath (basically 2 and a half years to grow) ended a long time ago. They also appear to have no noticed that reality tv is imploding, that nearly all the shows, while cheap, are crashing and burning because they're tired. C'est La Vie.

posted at April 21, 2007 02:07 AM

Brandon wrote:

Excuse me, but The Black Donnellys was really bad. I tried to watch the first episode, but it was so utterly boring and rediculously hard to follow that I turned it off about halfway through. Good riddance; but it is replaced by something that could be funny, but will probably grow old just as fast as Donnellys.

posted at April 21, 2007 07:14 PM

Chip wrote:

I think that NBC is trying to go under. The " Must see T.V. lineup" has hit rock bottom. The Black Donnelly's could have been the saving grace for a sinking network. They just gave me more reason to watch F/X.

posted at May 31, 2007 10:28 AM