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Anyone heard whether or not The Astronaut Wives is coming back next fall? I Googled a little but couldn't find anything definite.
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No. It is officially a mini series. Anyways the ratings are not good enough to support a second season.
shareWhere have you seen that this is officially a mini-series? I have been looking but did not find anything definate. Thanks.
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They've already rushed through 3/4ths of the timeline in the source book, so unless they want to show the wives going through Skylab and Apollo/Soyuz they're pretty much out of material for a second season. Besides which during the late Apollo phase is when a lot of the divorces start happening.
shareThey've already rushed through 3/4ths of the timeline in the source book, so unless they want to show the wives going through Skylab and Apollo/Soyuz they're pretty much out of material for a second season. Besides which during the late Apollo phase is when a lot of the divorces start happening.
None of that makes it "OFFICIALLY" a mini-series.
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Again, what would a future season consist of? It's a docudrama, so while they take liberties with some facts, they can't create a whole new bunch of stuff or the Mercury 7 wives to do.
If they had wanted to set this up as a multi-season show, they could have. They can't go back and do it now.
Your logic is flawless and you have spelled out the reasons why there will probably not be a season 2. My only point is that ABC has never officially said in any of it's advertising that this is a mini-series. Normally mini-series' are labeled as such from the beginning.
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So your bitch posts are about semantics and nothing else? That you agree there won't be a second season, but no one should say so because ABC hasn't said so, even though it's obvious?
Do you have Asperger's or something?
It keeps rejecting the link here but if you go to ABC you can see for yourself that they officially announced a 10-episode limited series event. I do not know how much plainer it needs to be spelled out for you. This was the official press release from the official ABC site. If you are confused on "limited series" and "mini-series" then you should educate yourself on the meaning of both terms.
shareWhile I agree that this particular series is ending because there is not much more story to tell, you really don't need to take this condescending attitude. Networks OFTEN announce that something is a limited series, then bring it back if it's super-successful. For example Under the Dome was supposed to be a miniseries. Downton Abbey was only supposed to be one season, which is why they didn't get their actors on the hook with longer contracts. But then, they were hugely successful, so they brought them back. The reboots of both Twin Peaks and The X-Files are supposed to be "limited," but I'm willing to bet that, if everyone loves them, they'll be back.
So maybe you should educate yourself about networks hedging their bets by calling something a limited series in case it tanks.
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I don't think the prior poster was being condescending, so much as responding to a another poster who repeatedly asked for evidence that ABC had OFFICIALLY called it a limited series.
I (like, I'm guessing, others) don't think what they "officially" called it is of much relevance anyway: (a) as you mention, if they officially called it a limited series or miniseries, that wouldn't stop them from continuing it if they felt like it, but (b) the way they structured the narrative made it virtually impossible to continue it, no matter what they officially called it.
Yeah. I'm going to guess if the show had Empire-level ratings, they'd have figured out a way to continue it, like filling in the stuff they raced through. However, I believe it was also filmed quite a long time ago, so likely a lot of the actors have moved on. And it had so-so ratings, okay for a summer show, but nothing spectacular.
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A limited series has a limited number of episodes per season but can still have multiple seasons. The Walking Dead is a limited series because it only has 10 episodes per season.
A mini series does not have seasons it has a set number of episodes.
This is where the confusion came in. Because ABC called it a limited series and not a mini-series and they used the words "season finale" they were either hedging their bets or they were using the wrong terminology.
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verrucasalt, My reply was directed toward taylorfirst who keeps on even farther down on this thread just kicking this subject to death. Many of us are questioning if he is severely autistic at this point.
To taylorfirst, A limited-series event has a set number of eps that tell a very specific story. THIS particular limited-event series of 10 eps was the story of the Mercury Wives. There is no more story to tell that would be worthy of spending millions to produce about their lives. IF ABC brings back this show, it will have to be about the next "Wives Club" and tell the story of the Gemini and Apollo wives. Of course they would still have the Mercury wives and astronauts sporadically in the eps because they were still a part of the family, but it would be an entirely different story of a different set of people. So please get a grip on reality and realize that this particular story of the Mercury Wives Club has been told by ABC and there is 99% chance of them NOT telling anything else about them. Will there be the Gemini Wives Club by ABC? Hopefully! Those of us who enjoyed the show would also enjoy the next wives stories as well. But please stop being a pendantic jerk.
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The source for this was a novel, and the novel only covered a certain time period.
"Based on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race."
So if this is where the novel ended it's also where the series should end. Should they decide to continue it next summer, they will have to base it on continuing historical data or someone else's book.
This has all been previously discussed. The book--which is not a novel--covers the wives through to the end of the Apollo program and then has a chapter on their lives after Apollo. So they're cutting it a bit short and oddly focused a lot on the Apollo 13 mission (which already has an award-winning movie about it) in the last episode.
There was enough material in the book and in the actual history to do 20 or 30 episodes, but they needed to squeeze it all into ten so they ended up cutting out a lot about the Gemini and Apollo programs and ignoring a lot of what happened with the wives from the later groups of astronauts.
The only reason that I can think of for why they spent so much of that episode on Apollo 13 was so they could show Trudy using her knowledge of all the technical things the people at NASA were talking about to explain to Marilyn and the other wives what was going on. It allowed the viewer to maybe better understand how hard it was for her to give up that business opportunity when Gordo told her he didn't think it was the right time and how/why she ultimately decided to leave him so she could pursue her dreams.
I think the original, original idea when the show was pitched was to spread it out over 2-3 summers. Very early on that idea was changed so they condensed it all into one "season" with 10 episodes. I don't know that I would have liked it spread out to 30 episodes but it would have been nice if we could have had 2-3 more episodes so they could have slowed a few things down or shown a little more of some stories. The last episode in particular felt really rushed to me because they had to cover so many stories.