(11-24-2015, 06:32 PM)grimmfan14 Wrote: 3 more seasons?!? No WAY. The ratings aren't good enough. They're on the fence as it is, and it's not going to go up dramatically now that it's on Friday night. The fans are the fans, you're not going to get a huge new fan base in Season 5 to carry it through for 3 more seasons.
Normally when I comment, I do so from a vantage of a level of expertise. The following comments are not that way, they are based rather on some knowledge and some practical experience but hardly what I would call expertise. I had a couple of radio shows for about 8 years in total and there appears to be some correlation.
When a show gets 80-100 shows it gains potential for off network syndication. The practical aspect of this is a show can actually be produced at an initial loss and make money (i.e. turn a profit) via syndication. Ratings then, become less important, because a marginal show can still make you money, which may be safer in the overall mix for a network than taking a flyer on a replacement show that may not catch on at all. Lineups also matter, you can often piggyback two shows that get a greater share when run back to back then they can separately. So a marginal show may hang in there as part o fan overall network strategy. With Grimm the syndication play may be relevant.
Then again I am not stating this from a position of authority, more like just something I have happenstance knowledge of.
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