Person of Interest - Channel 5
Discussion
The last episode of S4 will be shown on Monday 9th at 11.45pm next week.
It has also been hinted at that due to "poor average viewing figures" for both seasons 3 & 4, C5 has yet to decide whether or not it will pay to pick up the 5th & final season for UK broadcast
What annoys me, if that is true, is what did they expect viewing figure wise when they most recently ran it from 11pm-1am and regularly pushed it / cancelled it in favour of various "celebrity" and "chav of the week", shows
Even NCIS & NCIS NO have suffered a similar fate since they were pushed from Friday nights and moved to the new early Saturday evening slot (where they now get cut down to avoid offending the pre 9pm watershed crowd
) before their awful Football League highlights show
The positive news is that C5 are to invest more ££££ into further celebrity based shows including extending the run of both Big Brother variants, Rylan's new chat show, Lip Sync US / UK, etc, as well as more investment in their "benefit based documentaries"
It has also been hinted at that due to "poor average viewing figures" for both seasons 3 & 4, C5 has yet to decide whether or not it will pay to pick up the 5th & final season for UK broadcast
What annoys me, if that is true, is what did they expect viewing figure wise when they most recently ran it from 11pm-1am and regularly pushed it / cancelled it in favour of various "celebrity" and "chav of the week", shows
Even NCIS & NCIS NO have suffered a similar fate since they were pushed from Friday nights and moved to the new early Saturday evening slot (where they now get cut down to avoid offending the pre 9pm watershed crowd
) before their awful Football League highlights show The positive news is that C5 are to invest more ££££ into further celebrity based shows including extending the run of both Big Brother variants, Rylan's new chat show, Lip Sync US / UK, etc, as well as more investment in their "benefit based documentaries"
It would be very annoying if they decide not to pick up S5, especially as it seems to be the last one. Having stuck with it this far I'd like to see it through to completion, but I don't have the bandwidth to download / watch online.
If anything influences the viewing figures, it's going to be the stupidly late and random moving around of the programme. I seem to recall earlier series were on around 9pm, I wonder if it got more viewers then.
If anything influences the viewing figures, it's going to be the stupidly late and random moving around of the programme. I seem to recall earlier series were on around 9pm, I wonder if it got more viewers then.
Yes, the scheduling is nuts, 2 in a row late at night, what do they expect? I keep falling asleep in the second one.
It's still enjoyable but there's so much referencing you really need to have seen the lot, you can't just dip in and out so it's not likely to attract many new viewers, they won't understand half of it/the character motivation etc.
It's still enjoyable but there's so much referencing you really need to have seen the lot, you can't just dip in and out so it's not likely to attract many new viewers, they won't understand half of it/the character motivation etc.
Mr GrimNasty said:
Yes, the scheduling is nuts, 2 in a row late at night, what do they expect? I keep falling asleep in the second one.
I tend to record most stuff that's on a commercial channel now, the advertising just annoys me too much. So the weird late night slots didn't bother me, but moving it around did unless someone mentioned it.Mr GrimNasty said:
It's still enjoyable but there's so much referencing you really need to have seen the lot, you can't just dip in and out so it's not likely to attract many new viewers, they won't understand half of it/the character motivation etc.
That's true to an extent, though some of the flashbacks can help, when it's a bit more obvious they're flashbacks. I recently put someone onto "Suits", but it struck me that someone starting to watch it now without any of the back-story might have a job getting into it as anything other than just a legal drama. Last series excepted, of course.There was no "... returns later this year / next year" message after the end credits on C5 so I guess now it's just a waiting game to see whether or not they, or someone else, picks up the rights to S5 and when they'll be broadcast
If they don't I guess I'll be importing the R1 DVD when it gets released in the US - like I've had to do with a few other US shows that seem to take an age to get broadcast / released on DVD over here.
If they don't I guess I'll be importing the R1 DVD when it gets released in the US - like I've had to do with a few other US shows that seem to take an age to get broadcast / released on DVD over here.
droopsnoot said:
That's true to an extent, though some of the flashbacks can help, when it's a bit more obvious they're flashbacks. I recently put someone onto "Suits", but it struck me that someone starting to watch it now without any of the back-story might have a job getting into it as anything other than just a legal drama. Last series excepted, of course.
The flashbacks and whole non-linear story telling are both amazing ! Nathan Ingram is a key character who has appeared in every season - yet he was dead before the series began.dxg said:
I personally loved Harold's back-story.
We'd all assumed he was this loner until we discovered that, for a while, he wasn't. Then he got up and walked away. Because he had to...
I liked the fact that based on our 'limited' knowledge we made the assumption that the whole notion of saving people was Harold's idea.We'd all assumed he was this loner until we discovered that, for a while, he wasn't. Then he got up and walked away. Because he had to...
I just luuuuuuuuv Root, sadistic, flirty, dangerous, insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAFTMMvux9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAFTMMvux9w
Roo said:
Quick, dumbo, question?
Can someone remind me of how Harold got his injuries.
Cheers.
Loved the fact that the machine was talking directly to Reese in the last episode. Certainly opens up a new line of stories.
Revealed in the end of season two - a bomb - Nathan involved and HershCan someone remind me of how Harold got his injuries.
Cheers.
Loved the fact that the machine was talking directly to Reese in the last episode. Certainly opens up a new line of stories.
Is it just me, or are there small similarities to some old Blakes Seven running themes? Missing group member (Shaw / Blake) that could be dead or alive, some near misses in retrieving that person; abandoning the library to regroup from a less great location is akin to losing the Liberator and ending up with Scorpio, or losing Zen and "gaining" Slave. All we're missing is the shaky sets and dodgy clothes. Maybe that's why I enjoy it.
droopsnoot said:
Is it just me, or are there small similarities to some old Blakes Seven running themes? Missing group member (Shaw / Blake) that could be dead or alive, some near misses in retrieving that person; abandoning the library to regroup from a less great location is akin to losing the Liberator and ending up with Scorpio, or losing Zen and "gaining" Slave. All we're missing is the shaky sets and dodgy clothes. Maybe that's why I enjoy it.
I think Servalan was a lot hotter than "Control" 
M.
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