<p>Rockvillemom, ABC announced today that Lucky 7 has been cancelled due to low ratings.</p>
<p>My cousin works on the Blacklist. It was just picked up today for a full season. Please keep watching, people!</p>
<p>So I just watched the Lucky 7 pilot online. Wow, why wasn’t this show give much more promotion? I had never heard of it until its cancellation and it looked like a comedy from its poster. I did like it a lot.</p>
<p>Blacklist-good fun without being too gruesome or dark for now. James Spader seems to be enjoying himself with the role and that adds to the fun for me.
Sleepy Hollow-better than I expected, but I don’t know if I will still love it compared to Grimm.
The Crazy Ones-added to DVR mainly to support SMG
Back in the Game-DH likes it enough to watch.
Super Fun Night-I wanted to like it because of Rebel, but first episode was ‘meh’.
S.H.I.E.L.D-I trust Joss to make the show better.
The Originals-not the greatest pilot, but Vampire Diaries is my guilty pleasure so I will watch the spin-off.</p>
<p>I hated the first episode of American Horror Story, but I will try Coven.</p>
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And this is why I am reluctant to invest my time in any new drama! (I’m still in mourning over Awake, which completely captivated me a few years ago, but didn’t even make it to a full season.)</p>
<p>Lucky7 - that’s a shame. Networks need to give shows at least a few weeks to find an audience. Oh well.</p>
<p>I liked Lucky 7, too. I think they should try again with it in another time slot.</p>
<p>We liked Blacklist.</p>
<p>Recently we’d been enjoying Season 1 of Elementary, up to about episode 6, on Comcast On Demand. Then gasp, all of Season 1 was gone. Any other way to see it?</p>
<p>I liked Lucky 7 too, and I wanted to find out what happened with those two brothers. There are other shows that deserved to be cancelled over it.</p>
<p>Other than that:</p>
<p>I liked Brooklyn Nine-Nine more than I thought I would. Added to DVR queue.</p>
<p>I was disappointed by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but I’ll continue to watch it. A bit too campy for my liking.</p>
<p>I think that Trophy Wife has the potential to be pretty good. The pilot had some funny moments. </p>
<p>Hostages definitely caught my attention, although the premise is highly unbelievable.</p>
<p>The Blacklist was so-so. It never really caught my attention.</p>
<p>The Crazy Ones was too neat and tidy. I’ll give it one more episode before I make my decision, but I was not impressed at all.</p>
<p>I just caught up with Sean Saves the World, and I thought it was pretty funny–but the ridiculous laugh track completely ruined the experience. In the first scene, the “audience” erupts in raucous laughter when Sean–wait for it–can’t get the toast out of the toaster. Seriously. I’ve never understood the value of laugh tracks–if something isn’t funny to me, hearing others laugh isn’t going to change my mind.</p>
<p>I can’t watch most old tv shows because of the laugh tracks. Once I notice them it’s all over.</p>
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<p>It’s been years since I watched a network sitcom, although D2 has tried to get me into Community (the dear girl is almost cult-like with this show!). So I wouldn’t know the answer to this question… don’t they still use laugh tracks on new shows??? And yea, I don’t like them.</p>
<p>I just watched Welcome to the Family (NBC). Not sure it will keep me a whole season but the pilot gave me some laugh out loud moments…and it doesn’t have a laugh track :-)</p>
<p>Some shows have laugh tracks, some don’t. And I think the level of intrusiveness varies a lot among shows that have them–mild tittering vs. constant wild guffaws. One show that I’ll grudgingly tolerate sometimes despite the very intrusive laugh track is The Big Bang Theory, because it’s so clever and funny.</p>
<p>The only contemporary comedy I’ve watched regularly is How I met your Mother. If I recall correctly (I got tired of it a few years ago, but may watch this season to see the mother), it did have a laugh track, but wasn’t too awful.</p>
<p>Knowing that Big Bang is filmed in front of a live audience, I was curious about whether the do in fact have a laugh track, so I searched and found this article:</p>
<p>[The</a> Return of the Sitcom Laugh Track – New York Magazine](<a href=“http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/laughtracks-2011-12/]The”>The Return of the Sitcom Laugh Track -- New York Magazine - Nymag)</p>
<p>Contained within the article is this bit:</p>
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<p>I have no reason to doubt the guy…</p>
<p>Sleepy Hollow- love it. I’m always really interested in those types of shows dealing w/ fantasy and the supernatural. SH has an edge to it that draws me in. The cast is great, amazing chemistry between the leads.</p>
<p>Agents of SHEILD- it’s ok. Could be a whole lot better. The new girl brought into the group is annoying and I feel like the entire show will revolve around her(if you saw last weeks show, at the end you’ll know why) casting should have hired a stronger actress IMO </p>
<p>The Goldbergs- it’s pretty funny, so far so good.</p>
<p>About laugh tracks and live audiences: </p>
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<li><p>They don’t generally shoot the entire show live. Guest shots, odd sets (like a car, like some other place) are often shot the day before. They’ll show the tape to the live audience to get reactions.</p></li>
<li><p>They encourage applause and people tend to do as they’re told. They will also redo scenes if the reaction isn’t there. That I know is true of Lorre’s shows; some taping nights can go on and on and the audience can get restless as they rewrite bits.</p></li>
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<p>If it’s true Lorre doesn’t use a laugh track, then I have to wonder what they give the audience to drink (or smoke) on the way in, because they seem to laugh uproariously at nothing. And they must have mikes in various parts of the audience so they can mix the sound to ramp up the volume on the biggest laughers. It’s actually volume of the laughter overall that annoys me on some sitcoms, and that’s totally in the control of the producers.</p>
<p>SyFy’s Helix looks promising. Certainly kept me on the edge of my seat.</p>