Thursday, November 16, 2023

Entertainment News #36: Cancelled Shows, 9-1-1 and Goodreads Choice Awards


- The list for cancelled shows keeps growing. You can now add these five Netflix series to the list: Shadow and Bone, Glamorous, Agent Elvis, Farzar and Captain Fall. I really don't know why these networks and streaming services won't give shows time to find an audience. Because with so many shows airing on numerous channels and streaming services, not everyone watches everything at the same time. Which is why these executives shouldn't be so quick to cancel shows.

Edit to add: Bounce recently cancelled the TV series Act Your Age after one season. It starred Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell and Yvette Nicole Brown. The creator of show is hoping the show will be picked up on another network or streaming service. Also the first season will be on Netflix sometime next year.





- The seventh season of 9-1-1 will premiere Thursday, March 14, 2024 on ABC at 8:00 PM EST. I'm really hoping the writing for the seventh season will be better than the sixth because the last season overall was disappointing.





- The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards was recently announced and there are several categories that have been removed: Childrens' and Middle Grade, Poetry and Comics and Graphic Novels. This decision has sparked backlash from readers and authors especially since Goodreads has added a new category Romantasy to the awards list. To me, it makes no sense to get rid of those categories while adding a new one. Especially since these three categories don't always get the attention they deserve.

According to Goodreads' statement, “Our goal is to have the Goodreads Choice Awards reflect the books that are most popular with our members, based on the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads each year. As part of this, we have made adjustments to our categories over time, and, this year, we will not include Children’s & Middle Grade, Poetry, and Graphic Novels as separate categories.

Separately, reflecting the amount of reader interest we’re seeing in Romantasy on Goodreads this year, we are including this as a new category in 2023. We will continue to have separate Romance and Fantasy categories. Overall, our community is incredibly diverse in the breadth of their reading, with fans across hundreds of genres and sub-genres.”

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