Author Archives: Rachel Lieberman

Will & Grace #1

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Its back! On Thursday, September 28th at 9 PM, everyone’s favorite 4 best friends are returning to New York City, our heart, and NBC. Will & Grace, a once- and soon to be again- hit comedy has nothing but hype as it heads back to television. Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes, and the director of every Will & Grace, James Burrow, are joining us again. It’s a recipe for success.

Will & Grace focuses on Grace, a straight interior designer and Will, her gay friend, who live together. As well as Jack, Will’s gay friend and Karen, Grace’s assistant. The show follows the lives of this wacky crew.

Our only problem is that Will & Grace is a female driven show and is up against “Scandal”, another female driven show. The saving “grace” for this competition is the Will & Grace’s team has been doing marketing to bring people right back and remind everyone how much they love this group. Every episode of Will & Grace is being put on hulu and they have been putting up fun clips of the cast on their YouTube channel like crazy. This show has a lot of promise!

Vixen #2

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Vixen: The Movie had such promise and was a highly anticipated event with a huge following, but unfortunately it let us down; Almost as down as its numbers were. It only got 690,000 viewers, which was less than half the viewers than other shows that aired that night got. To see a comparison The Goldberg’s got 3 million viewers, Master Chef got 3.6 million viewers, Big Brother had 6 million viewers, and America’s Got Talent got 11 million viewers. As stated in the last post Vixen showed promise because of the shows it shared the same world with, such as The Flash. Vixen also showed promised because it appealed to both males and females viewers. Males tend to be the popular audience for super hero content, but since Vixen has a strong female lead character it had the potential to interests and bring in female viewers. Unfortunately it only got a 1.2/5 on the 18-49 demographic. Now the only question is why? The reason is marketing. The CW had next to no marketing or advertising for this franchise. Here are some quotes from fans who would have raised the ratings- if only they had known.

 

‘Vixen’ Animated Series Premieres To Dismal Ratings On The CW

 

 

VIxen #1

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The Vixen is an animated action adventure series that started as a weekly 30 minute long web-series in August 2015 on CW Seed. After two season CW decided to compile the content and air it on Wednesday, August 30th at 8 PM as a 74 minute long movie. It’s based on the DC Character, Mari McCabe, a superhero crime-fighter who has the power to mimic any animal. Her parents were killed by local greed, corruption, and violence; so she fights to protect the world from threats like those.

It’s a spin off of The Flash and is set in the same world as The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of the Tomorrow. These shows have a huge following and by Vixen having that connection, plus having some of the stars of The Flash (Grant Gustin and Carlos Valdes) and Arrow (Stephen Amell and Katie Cassidy), they really grab in super fans to come watch. Not only does the star studded and loved cast bring in fans to watch but the directors of the show help on that front too. Curt Geda and James Tucker have done a lot of work with Batman bringing in more superhero fans.