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NBC Will Let Revolution Play Out For An Entire Season

Date: Oct 2, 2012 | Author: Brent McKnight | Category: Sci-Fi

Getting a pilot made is no guarantee that you show will get on television. And following that logic, getting your show on the fall schedule doesn’t guarantee that you’ll see a full season. Networks often take a wait-and-see approach with new shows, watching their early performances before placing an order for a full season. NBC’s Revolution no longer has to worry about this, as the network has quickly come the decision to let the post-apocalyptic drama play out for a full season.

“We’re impressed with the imagination and creative direction of the entire team on Revolution, not to mention the immediately strong response we got from the audience,” said Jennifer Salke, NBC’s entertainment president. That creative team includes creator Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and producers Jon Favreau (Iron Man) and J.J. Abrams (Star Trek).

The network used the ratings gold that is the Summer Olympics to hype the sci-fi program, which takes place 15 years after all the electricity on Earth mysteriously stopped working. Something they did must have worked, because Revolution was the highest rated premiere in the 18-49 demographic of any new drama in three years. And though the ratings have dropped since the first episode, it has continued to crush the competition in the 10pm time slot on Monday nights—up against Hawaii Five-O on CBS, and Castle with Nathan Fillion on ABC.

With numbers like this, the full-season order seemed like a given. Revolution is an interesting premise and has a great deal of potential. It feels like it should be better, though. At the moment there’s enough to keep me watching from week to week, but it isn’t something I’m terribly invested in. Are you guys watching Revolution? What do you think of the show?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/jaxonpricehenry Jackson Henry

    Call me crazy, but…

    I can’t get into it. The lead character’s kinda dumb, too dumb. Not clumsy hero dumb, but annoying-Nickelodeon-sidekick dumb. Also every environment looks as believable as that fake town they built in Blazing Saddles. It’s a great premise, but they are really falling short on the delivery.

  • Mark

    I can’t believe that’s a real question. Of course we’d like to see it go a full season…or six.

  • Darth Silliarse

    I’m as keen for some new sci-fi as the next guy but it’s barely a step above TerrableNova. The involvement of JJ Abrams is the only thing that has given me patience.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kyle.toth.16 Kyle Toth

    Good story line, but the show itself kind of sucks. I mean who kills one of the drones when the leader of the pack is right in front of you? Stupid kid with the crossbow should have killed the Monroe Republic group leader that came to take away his father. Not to mention who goes flying backwards when they get shot or hit by an arrow/bolt? They defy the laws of physics and common sense and for that, I kind of hate the show. However I would like the story line to play out so wrap it up in on season will you? Instead of killing me with a cliff hanger as Terra Nova did before cancellation.

  • stan

    I agree it’s watchable but not terrribly interesting,I missed the last episode and really didn’t care.It’s sufferes from many of the cliche’ ridden TV sci-fi shows they put on now-a-days.Chances are it will attract an audience and last a few seasons while better written ones rarely last a few weeks.

  • Sam

    I kind of wish they’d established the setting and the characters more before introducing all of the political faction drama and the woman with electricity. I barely care what the militia or the rebels’ motivations are, we barely saw Charlie and her brother together to care if they get reunited, and we barely saw the world without electricity to care that one or two people have working computers. That’s the kind of revelation that would’ve been great for a mid-season cliffhanger or a season finale or something. Ah well.

  • Rowjack

    Why why why why why do they not use steam power?

  • MJ

    I enjoy the show but Charlie tends to be most annoyingly stupid. Her actions make it difficult to truly enjoy the show.