Traveler journey ends here
By fred | July 9, 2007
Another show bites the dust. Kind of. It is more than likely that ABC’s new show Traveler will not be returning for a second season, as hinted by Creator/Executive Producer David Digilio, calling the two remaining episodes of the season the final two of the show, and revealing ABC let contracts of the actors lapse.
I honestly only heard of this show as a one-season deal, but I guess some always have hopes to stretch out something for more than it was originally intended, or should be.
Don’t matter this, such news won’t come as a shock to, I think, anyone would followed the life of that show. Despite having one of the most exciting pilot of all the new shows this season, which I saw (long) before the show started airing and got me excited all this time, it wasn’t apparently how execs felt over at ABC.
Makes sense, those people have but no idea whatsoever what a good TV show is, or even looks like.
Anyways, despite this exciting pilot, and, as we’ve learned after, great episodes to follow it, in the middle of its production ABC decided to change their mind, and cut it off by 5 episodes, from the 13 originally ordered they went down to only 8.
By then the five first ones were already done, and the sixth was being shot. Writers were polishing the script of the original episode 8 when the news came down. Therefore much work had to go into rewriting what would be the last two episodes in a way that would concluded a story thought as much longer.
But at least writers were told before hand, and could wrap things up and conclude the story, so fans wouldn’t be left hanging without any answers like in so many shows lately. And I guess we have to thank ABC for not insulting us, since they did not took it off the air before the end.
Well, there are still two episodes to come, so keep your fingers crossed.
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