ABC issued a statement yesterday noting that it had already canceled the series before the April 7 episode appeared because of weak audience ratings.
The poor reviews and weak audience reactions didn't help, and it was the first time the series suffered a decline from one film to the next.
Second, there is constant interaction between the orator and his discourse; thus, the speaker's prestige intensifies the effect of his discourse, but, inversely, if his arguments are weak, the audience's opinion of his intelligence, competence, or sincerity is influenced.
However, CBS still labors under some entrenched handicaps, like the weak performance of many of its stations, which leaves its evening news with the weakest lead-in audiences of the three networks.
You're supposed to leave a gig on your strongest laugh, by ending on such weak wordplay most audiences would be left unsure of what they'd just seen.
Often starting as ensemble players at London's fringe and state-financed theaters, they would emerge out of that egalitarian climate, with its deliberately alphabetical billing, and go on to leave movie audiences weak at the knees -- and asking one question.
He explains why violence typically comes in the form of atrocities against the weak, ritualized exhibitions before audiences, or clandestine acts of terrorism and murder--and why a small number of individuals are competent at violence.
Its two-hour premiere last week drew a mere 9.18 million viewers, according to Nielsen's overnight ratings, and Monday's second episode was even weaker: it attracted an audience of 8.45 million.
Or even more difficult not to blame their kings for failing to care for the weak and vulnerable when audiences were transfixed by those sublimely moving scenes on the heath as King Lear, amidst the raging storm, was shocked to discover what appalling conditions his people had endured for centuries.
Here's what I think is going on: cinephiles who are devoted to the great works of classic Hollywood, and who have an ongoing auteurist fascination with the films of today's Hollywood, have developed a fealty to Hollywood's styles — its gloss, precision, and dramatic concentration — that is hardly weaker than that of mass audiences.
