{"id":1150,"date":"2005-11-02T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2005-11-02T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T14:34:35","slug":"over-there-loses-the-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"“Over There” Loses the There"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now it’s just over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cable television’s FX channel has decided not to renew the critically praised Iraq war drama “Over There” for a second season due to weak ratings during the show’s initial 13-episode run, the network said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Over There,” a first-of-its-kind contemporary war drama about U.S. troops in combat and their families back home, was co-created by Steven Bochco, the veteran TV producer behind such landmark cop shows as “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue.”<\/p>\n

While “Over There” garnered mostly favorable reviews, the gritty, albeit fictionalized, depiction of a real war that has grown increasingly unpopular with the American public ultimately proved a turnoff to TV viewers.<\/p>\n

Although the series contained references to real-life events that have stirred debate over the war, including the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, the producers sought to avoid overt political messages about the conflict.<\/p>\n

The show got off to a promising start on July 27 with 4.1 million viewers tuning in, a fairly healthy launch by cable TV standards, but the audience steadily declined from there.<\/p>\n

Through the 13th and final episode on October 26, the program averaged a meager 2.1 million viewers overall. Only 1.35 million watched the series finale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good. Personally, I had not returned to the show since my generally disfavorable response<\/a> to the premier episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now it’s just over. Cable television’s FX channel has decided not to renew the critically praised Iraq war drama “Over There” for a second season due to weak ratings during the show’s initial 13-episode run, the network said on Tuesday. “Over There,” a first-of-its-kind contemporary war drama about U.S. troops in combat and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}