Entertainment Insider Travis Yanan is reporting that Babylon Fields has been picked up by CBS and will premiere this fall on Fridays at 9:00 PM.
Of course, take this lightly as nothing is official until upfronts are released.
Entertainment Insider Travis Yanan is reporting that Babylon Fields has been picked up by CBS and will premiere this fall on Fridays at 9:00 PM.
Of course, take this lightly as nothing is official until upfronts are released.
http://www.nku.edu/~manningj1/CBS2007.htm
Thats the latest rumor. The concept sounds rather lame but who knows... Zombie Comedy-Drama? I dunno... its just reminds me of an awful sitcom "Whoops!" that aired back in the 80s based on the premise of the series that Ive read about.
Ive also heard that the 9PM Friday time slot may be shared with Jericho, each getting 1/2 of the Season. Or if Babylon Fields ratings are too low, it will be axed and replaced with Jerichos Season 2.
The official CBS schedule is supposed to be released Wednesday May 16th.
www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070516cbs02
CBS new line up and Babylon Fields isn't on it, looks like they've gone with the Angel rip-off instead. Shame. This coupled with them nuking Jericho means i won't be watching CBS next season. I have very little interest in any of their other lame shows.
I hope the new trend isn't just to copy old shows with one or two minute twists, NBC's "Journeyman" seems almost like a carbon copy of Quantum Leap
| angrodpallanen wrote: |
| A pick-up is likely since CBS is running out of shows with new episodes. |
EDIT: slight Spoilers Warning
This show absolutely blew me away, the first episode anyway. It's so brilliantly dark, I don't know why it was labelled as a comedic drama as someone went to watch it as one and so gave it a 5.5 instead of just viewing it with an open mind. But it did have the odd moment of jet-black humor that made me chuckle abit, but definitely not a comedy.
SOO much better than that show they gave the other soldier from Rome to, the yawnfest Journeyman. Little things like the symbolism in the names and whatnot and mentions of false flag attacks and when the bad zombie penetrated his skull with his finger and smiled in a weirdly perverse way. What an ending too!
Deep, amazing show which tackles how different belief systems would react to an event like this, and death in general.
It's probably dead in the water though, maybe they could turn it into a movie or something. This one episode is enough though and I'll no doubt watch it many times.
Bens123
Journeyman wasn't it's opposition so why in the hell would you bring that into question? You should've watched more than one episode then it wouldn't be "lame". It you wactched any other episode besides the pilot then of course you wouldn't get it every minutes of every episode was continuation not really new just continuing but not as continuing as say, Damages.
MistaC87
I agree with you they should put it on tv.Everyone should be able to see it.
samosfromhalo
I don't know where you got from that it was Swingtown vs Babylon Fields since CBS outright said it was Babylon Fields that would occupy the Friday at 9/8c timeslot then sneak attacked us at upfronts withthe Vampire PI, Angel ripoff, Blood Ties like-Moonlight.
It actually pisses me off that Moonlight was chosen since Blood Ties is currently on tv and has a very similar format, Blood Ties = AVampire help a PIfight vampires and supernatural things! It's just 2 characters rolled into one on Moonlight with the help of his friend Vampires!
| Hulkamaniac14 wrote: |
Bens123 |
I brought up Journeyman because I'm a Rome fan (I clearly mentioned that I was talking in reference to that) and I was talking about the British double act soldiers from Rome, one of them got their own new show picked up (Journeyman) and the other one didn't (Babylon Fields). I wasn't aware I was bringing Journeyman "into question", just offering my opinion on what I thought of it and that other far better shows like Babylon Fields do not get picked up by the networks, I have no idea which show was competing for what slot or whatever.
Why do you assume I only watched the pilot and then dismissed it as "lame" (isn't that "" implying I said lame? slander!). I gave the show a chance, I watched the first 3 episodes hoping the show would pick up pace or have some interesting stories (I usually love time travelling type stuff but this was quite boring for me) or at least one likeable character or anything at all. I have no idea what you are trying to say in the last sentence I've quoted... obviously each episode continues from the last (there's a "previously on Journeyman" bit every episode so yeah...), I get it, his ex-girlfriend (who everyone thought died in a plane crash, but she didn't... oooohhhh how'd she do that!:roll
is stuck in some time warp thing or whatever with him that he (and us) don't yet understand and it's going to clash with his current partner, that kind of relationship romance sh** does not keep me interested for very long.
Babylon Fields does however, for the reasons stated in my previous post. And I was posting in a Babylon Fields forum, not a Journeyman forum so I don't see why you feel the need to defend it's honour... It's not like I came on the Journeyman forum and started being a troll. I guess you like the show and alot of people do, that's cool, each to his own.
You're so right about the Moonlight/Blood Ties thing though, I was very confused when I was reading about them, they're almost literally the same show, the networks are damn insane and downright cowardly! Do we really need more F-in P.I. shows, or even worse more F-in vampire shows?! No. We need apocalyptic original takes on the zombie genre... I do anyway.
