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McGillicuddy · 01-28-2011, 09:08 PM

Its Friday Night at 8pm, and I sat down to watch the first new episode of Smallville since November, and last nights episode of Vampire Diaries is on instead. What's going on???? Theres no explanation anywhere!!

tv star collector · 01-29-2011, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by markway895

Its Friday Night at 8pm, and I sat down to watch the first new episode of Smallville since November, and last nights episode of Vampire Diaries is on instead. What's going on???? Theres no explanation anywhere!!

I was wondering the same thing. And Supernatural was also pre-empted for a repeat of the previous night's episode of Nikita. What's up?

McGillicuddy · 01-29-2011, 05:42 PM

As it turns out, on the CW website it said the scheduled episodes of Smallville and Supernatural were pushed back to next Friday, Feb. 4., at the last minute with no explanation. That really sucked for fans of these shows.

I've heard of shows being preempted for a major news story, like the shuttle disaster, but not for a re-run of a show that aired the night before. I'm not very impressed with The CW!

Regulus · 02-16-2011, 11:44 AM

Smallville is in it's final season, that's been known since this seasom's first episodes air.

However, frequent pre-emptions have been the death of MANY a TV Series. When a show gets taken off for too long a period, people think the show has already been cancelled, and move on to watch something else. The, when that show returns, few notice it and the ratings fail to return, and the show gets cancelled. The original Hawaii Five-O is a prime example. Ib its last seasons it was often pre-empted for some kind of "Special" for four weeks at a time.

I wrote letters to CBS asking WHY they were "Ganging Up" on this show and pre-empting it for their specials, but they never replied. Needless to say, the show died as a result.

McGillicuddy · 02-16-2011, 05:59 PM

I think I know why the new episode of Smallville was pre-empted on 1-29.----
They may have wanted to delay the 2nd new episode, scheduled for 2/5, and had a scene where Senator Martha Kent was shot, by a disturbed young man, Alexander Luthor. It was so eeriely similar to the tragedy in Tuscon, I'm thinking they wanted to delay THAT episode so it was not so soon after. It was only delayed a week, but I'm really thinking thats what might have happened. They then just decided to post-pone Supernatural, also.

01-28-2011, 09:08 PM	#1
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	Where's Smallville Its Friday Night at 8pm, and I sat down to watch the first new episode of Smallville since November, and last nights episode of Vampire Diaries is on instead. What's going on???? Theres no explanation anywhere!!

02-16-2011, 11:44 AM	#4
Regulus Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 07, 2011 Location: Port Orange, Florida Avatar - Poiuyt Posts: 3,374	Smallville is in it's final season, that's been known since this seasom's first episodes air. However, frequent pre-emptions have been the death of MANY a TV Series. When a show gets taken off for too long a period, people think the show has already been cancelled, and move on to watch something else. The, when that show returns, few notice it and the ratings fail to return, and the show gets cancelled. The original Hawaii Five-O is a prime example. Ib its last seasons it was often pre-empted for some kind of "Special" for four weeks at a time. I wrote letters to CBS asking WHY they were "Ganging Up" on this show and pre-empting it for their specials, but they never replied. Needless to say, the show died as a result.
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01-29-2011, 05:42 PM	#3
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	As it turns out, on the CW website it said the scheduled episodes of Smallville and Supernatural were pushed back to next Friday, Feb. 4., at the last minute with no explanation. That really sucked for fans of these shows. I've heard of shows being preempted for a major news story, like the shuttle disaster, but not for a re-run of a show that aired the night before. I'm not very impressed with The CW!

02-16-2011, 05:59 PM	#5
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	I think I know why the new episode of Smallville was pre-empted on 1-29.---- They may have wanted to delay the 2nd new episode, scheduled for 2/5, and had a scene where Senator Martha Kent was shot, by a disturbed young man, Alexander Luthor. It was so eeriely similar to the tragedy in Tuscon, I'm thinking they wanted to delay THAT episode so it was not so soon after. It was only delayed a week, but I'm really thinking thats what might have happened. They then just decided to post-pone Supernatural, also.