Friday, July 28, 2006
We hardly knew ye (again)
GONE! Sex, Love and Secrets, ITV2, 9.10pm
Has Friday become some kind of dumping ground for all of the shows that networks bought from America without realising they were going to tank? We only ask because when we wrote about Out Of Practice last week, the whole it's-already-been-cancelled thing was just a hook for us to hang our writeup around, but now we notice ITV's scheduling this on Fridays too. We're beginning to wonder if We Hardly Knew Ye should become a regular slot or something.
So, Sex, Love and Secrets: it doesn't come with the best of recommendations. It got terrible reviews in America. The ratings were an embarrassment (apparently it ranked 155th out of 156 programmes for the entire year, and UPN were forced to move Veronica Mars back into the slot that this show occupied). It became the only show in Television Without Pity history to be sent to Permanent Hiatus before a single recap got posted, due to virtually complete disinterest from the site's users. Hell, they've pretty much wiped all evidence that they were ever planning to recap it; it doesn't show up in their index list. UPN gave it four episodes before yanking it off the air entirely, leaving four episodes unaired in the States.
On the offchance that you WERE planning to watch this, it stars Denise Richards (no, wait, come back, etc) and is set in a hip young community focusing around a group of friends learning what they want out of life. Hmm. Nope, we've never heard that premise before! We're in! As before, if you do decide to tune in, be prepared for it to end in a somewhat up-in-the-air fashion once ITV get to the end of the episodes that were made before the show got cancelled, because we don't exactly think the production team were given a lot of time to wrap things up...
By Steve :: Post link
:: 
::
0 pop-up comments
:: Discuss on messageboard
