Thursday, 3 May 2012

ABC's fails: Reboot of Charlie's Angels


Charlie’s Angels is and American reboot television series by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for ABC, based upon the 1976 series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. The series ran on ABC from September 22 to November 10, 2011. Although there were going to be 13 episodes to be aired, production of Charlie's Angels ended on October 14, 2011 after airing only four episodes due to extremely poor ratings and critical reviews. It burned off three of the remaining four episodes and concluded its run on ABC on November 10, 2011.

Although there were going to be 13 episodes to be aired, production of Charlie's Angels ended on October 14, 2011 after airing only four episodes due to extremely poor ratings and critical reviews.[3] It burned off three of the remaining four episodes and concluded its run on ABC on November 10, 2011. He later stated, "The characters are real and emotionally grounded, but they still like to have fun, wear great clothes, solve crime, and kick some serious ass...we hope to surprise people and bring a whole new generation to Charlie's Angels." Filming began in Miami on March 8, 2011. On May 13, 2011, ABC picked the project up to series. ABC later announced that the show would air Thursdays at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central, starting at the beginning of the 2011–12 United States network television season.

Rachael, Minka, and Annie
The casts are Annie Ilonzeh as Kate Prince, a former Miami Cop. Minka Kelly as Eve French, a street racer, Rachael Taylor as Abby Sampson, a thief, Ramon Rodriguez as John Bosley, a hacker, and Victor Garber as the voice of Charles Townsend. The show received mostly negative reviews, they say confusing plot, useless action scenes. But I don’t think it bad. Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe gave the show a "C" grade commenting "The underwhelming cast brings nothing to the boilerplate action. Kelly is miscast as a biker chick, and making Bosley a hunk with computer skills fails to add life."

The pilot episode drew only a 2.1/6 among the 18–49 demos with 8.76 million viewers in Thursday slot on ABC. Thirteen episodes of the series were originally supposed to be aired. However, after the fourth episode aired, ABC announced on October 14, 2011 that it had decided to cancel the series because of the low ratings. The final episode of the show was never aired on ABC, but was aired by AXN in Poland in late December 2011 and aired by Cinemax Latinoamerica in January 2012. Shorty before the show ended, Minka Kelly made a post of her thoughts on Twitter about the cancellation of the show with her fans. "I've had a wonderful time working w this incredible crew n amazing cast. I've made friends 4 life! A beautiful experience.. #CharliesAngels." ABC president Paul Lee stated also after the cancellation of the show “I don’t think we breathed life into that franchise but I think it was a strong attempt.”










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