Blog Spotlight: "Trust me" or trusting the audience criteria on television

Another great TV show has been cancelled after just one season. TNT decided last week that "Trust me" wasn't getting enough audience (about 1.4 million viewers each episode) and shut it down after only just one season.

Michael Wright, the guy in charge on TNT programming said something like that the "drama was just a little too inaccessible for viewers. And that was the issue; not enough Nielsen numbers".

That's sad and makes me feel angry: after the cancelling of great TV series such "Studio 60″, "Love Monkey" with this poor guy Tom Cavanagh who seems to be cursed by some evil anti-good TV ghost, another original show where there are no psychopaths, dead bodies and fire arms has been shut down. And that makes me think about the audience criteria: why on earth should this show be cancelled while the last season of once great but now moribund CSI is still running? Read more