Cancelling Survivors- the BBC must be mad

I think it's the right decision. It came to a natural end at the end of the second series, with only one loose thread left to provide an excuse for a third series if they had wanted one (Tom on the plane). Everything else had been resolved / found /dealt with.
 
Actually, everything felt wrapped up to me. If they hadn't ended it with Tom sneaking onto that plane (which felt like a pointless, silly and really tagged on at the last minute type of ending anyway - probably in hopes of having a thread to run with if the show was renewed) then there wouldn't be anything to work with in terms of another series.

I just don't think there were enough people who would have REALLY cared about anything after we got given the answers...I'd imagine a plot about the people on the safe island or wherever everyone went would have just been more goverment corruption and people rebelling against those in power, or something. Yawn.
 
It was a fine show.I'm one of those who thought the second series was just as good as the first.Some of the episodes moved along at a cracking pace and had me gripped.

A bit gutted we won't get to see a third series : I would have been really looking forward to it.
 
I'm not sure what people's problem is with Julie Graham, she's alright IMO.
Rather tidy too.
She was alright in that family thing with Martin Clunes, whatever happened to that btw?
She wasn't that bad in Survivors, then again nobody came out it too well, I choose to blame the script and direction though.
 
Series one was watchable enough - a bit rubbish but had enough that was interesting about it to keep me watching each week.

Series two ruined anything good about series one. The Beep were right to cancel it - though it's absolutely hilarious that meant the show ended literally up in the air! :D

And yeah, what is it about Julie Graham? She worked with the same writers on Bonekickers...is she their muse or something? (And if so, why? She's really not someone I've been able to warm to as an actress and that seems true for many people on here, so wonder what they see in her that we can't?)
 
I really would like this as well.
Also liked the show to.

British Sci fi never seems to do very well now and the channels only seem to be interested in US sci fi.

Apart from Dr Who.
 
Julie Graham- the kiss of death for hers shows-

Bonekickers/Bonkers- cancelled.


Survivors- cancelled.


Joins The Bill- cancelled.

I dont know how she keeps getting work.
 
It's criminal! There ought to be a law!

In enjoyed the second just as much as the first one.

The BBC shoud allow to wrap it up in a 6 hour long TV movie. Split in 6 parts.
 
Then people moan that the BBC is spending money on programs 'nobody' want's to watch and proceed to use the ratings as a stick to beat the BBC with.



You mean the third series, just like the previous 2 series of 6, hour long episodes, then.

I'm guessing something that was supposed to be a popular drama didn't prove to be as popular as expected with the viewers.
Bums on seats per pound spent, Cost/benefit analysis meant it got the chop.
 
Well Ben Stephenson from the BBC said they brought back the recent short run of that utter cack "Mistresses" to close the series off for the fans (all 10 of them) so there is no reason why they could not do the same with Survivors.
 
There's a perfectly obvious reason cost, cost and cost.
Canceling something like Survivors probably frees up enough money for 2 series of something like Mistresses (not that I ever watched it or heard of it until the last series) all that location stuff and the staff to run it costs money.
 
They managed to come up with the Coal mine nonsense, I couldn't see any corner that they'd painted themselves into, there was the whole Island thing to come.
Capture, runaway, peril, capture, fight, runaway, week in, week out for another 6 weeks.
 
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