tv Fox renews 'Touch,' cancels 'Alcatraz'

[Rappy Veteran]

Keifer Sutherland?s Fox drama Touch has been renewed for a second season, but has cancelled freshman drama Alcatraz.

Touch is getting another round at the network, despite relatively modest ratings for the show?s debut season. The drama is produced by Fox?s sister studio 20th Century Fox and the network has a long and strong relationship with star Sutherland from his days on 24.

Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams? mystery thriller Alcatraz got the boot after 13 episodes. Both the Touch renewal and the Alcatraz cancellation were largely expected. Fox declined to comment on either move.

Still no word clear yet on Fox?s other freshman drama on the bubble, The Finder. Obviously the bubbliest bubble show, Fringe, received a fifth-and-final season order already.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/09/fox-touch-renewed/

[mudslag]

Lame

[ensiform]

Really... fox always pulls the plug with shows early that didn't end well.

Alcatraz was good :(

[moloko]

fox canceled so many great shows that I liked.

[Sranshaft]

This is just another example of Fox pulling sci-fi shows that need time to ramp up the fanbase. There just simply isn't any room on Fox anymore for shows like The X-Files or Fringe where the mythology of the show takes a couple of seasons to really pull people in. I wonder how Lost would have done had it not have been on ABC.

This is exactly why I stopped watching any show weekly and wait for the season to be over and renewed before investing so much time on a show.

[TheLegendOfMart]

HULK SMASH

I really enjoyed Alcatraz.

[notuptome2004]

This is just BS why do the Networks do this to us.

http://tviv.org/Cancelled_2007-2008_Season_(USA)

some of the shows i enjoyed such as

Journeyman Writers strike caused this and the network pulled the plug early leaving allot to be told and plat and mythology to be siad

Bionic Woman i really enjoyed this but agian the Strike

Moonlight Part Strike left allot to be told and the whole love story line was rushed because it got Axed

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Left us with a big cliffhanger like the others

those are just a few i can list i enjoyed and now Fox has axed the Finer ( loved it ) Alcatraz ( different but good )

[MindTrickz]

Alcatraz was terrible so I am not too disappointed. The lead actress could not act for sh*t and the writing was questionable. I remember that there were two particular instances at the start of the season in which she was involved in shoot-outs... both times she threw away her gun and came out of hiding and left her self and the hostage at the mercy of the bad guy.

Pretty happy that Fringe got renewed though.

[Dan~]

This is the thing with so many American series' you need to start to watch the first series when you know the 2nd is about to be released as it's always a let down.

I also bring up my favourite of "Invasion" loved it to peices then it got cancelled, had I of known there wasn't going to be a 2nd I wouldn't of ever watched the first as it just angers me!

Didn't watch Touch or Alcatraz though..

[Sranshaft]

I also bring up my favourite of "Invasion" loved it to peices then it got cancelled, had I of known there wasn't going to be a 2nd I wouldn't of ever watched the first as it just angers me!

Definitely this! I'm still ****ed HBO cancel Carnivale. I have the first two seasons and every time I look at them I get angry knowing that such a spectacular show got the ax because of the 'ratings'. Oh and Firefox. Damn it, now I need to punch a bear.

[DigitalE]

So disappointing. I loved Alcatraz.

[NPGMBR]

I stopped watching Alcatraz months ago but only recently gave up on Touch.

[Rappy Veteran]

add the Finder to that list...

http://tvline.com/2012/05/09/alcatraz-cancelled-the-finder/

[+primortal Subscriber²]

add the Finder to that list...

http://tvline.com/20...led-the-finder/

I actually enjoyed The Finder but when it was moved to Friday nights where all good shows go to die I knew it was done.

[ahhell]

**** you Fox.

[Salty Wagyu]

Lost interest in Alcatraz after 3 episodes, they were right to cancel it.

Really enjoying Touch on the other hand!

[TheLegendOfMart]

Lost interest in Alcatraz after 3 episodes, they were right to cancel it.

Really enjoying Touch on the other hand!

Yeah they should cancel it just because you don't like it. They should cancel everything you don't like just to make you happy.

[oceanmotion]

They were both pretty rubbish. Lets not kid outselves, there is a reason most of these shows get canned, they are just not very good. Say what you what about Lost or other successes but they have good characters that you enjoy watching regardless of ropey stories. These other shows don't get close to something as important as that and you don't need two seasons to make it work.

Glad they gave Fringe one last hurrah. Now they get to do their ending.

[+chorpeac MVC]

Rediculous... For all these tv shows that are supposed to span more than one season and only make it one, they should offer a story synopsis when they get cancelled. Where is the professional courtesy... Makes you want to stop watching these new shows.

[TheLegendOfMart]

They were both pretty rubbish. Lets not kid outselves, there is a reason most of these shows get canned, they are just not very good. Say what you what about Lost or other successes but they have good characters that you enjoy watching regardless of ropey stories. These other shows don't get close to something as important as that and you don't need two seasons to make it work.

Glad they gave Fringe one last hurrah. Now they get to do their ending.

The reason they get canned is because Fox expects instant ratings success, not every show is a big hit, they don't give the shows time to establish themselves.

TV Ratings aren't calculated properly either, they don't take into account out of the home viewing, and I'm pretty sure they don't count DVR and Online Viewing.

[Rappy Veteran]

Rediculous... For all these tv shows that are supposed to span more than one season and only make it one, they should offer a story synopsis when they get cancelled. Where is the professional courtesy... Makes you want to stop watching these new shows.

yeah took me a while to watch Once Upon a Time because I wasn't sure if it would get cancelled

[protocol7]

This is why I just stopped watching new shows. Waste of time.

[GameOverRob]

Is Alcatraz worth watching bearing in mind that it has been canceled, is there some sort of acceptable ending at the end of season 1?

[paxa]

i said it once, i'll say it again....f*** you fox, thanks for another cancellation, keep it up with the same crappy shows like i hate my teenage daughter and such....and cancel something that was starting to get real good.

[burnsflipper]

I'll miss seing Sarah Jones run (with all the jiggling in between) :shiftyninja: