The busiest week of the year is the week before Upfronts, where there are tons of cancellations, renewals, and pilot pickups. CW got things rolling on Monday afternoon with the formality of cancelling No Tomorrow and Frequency. The two dramas were the new CW shows in the fall and both got off to low starts and settled around a 0.2 demo with occasional 0.3s. CW almost always picks up new shows for full seasons but that didn't happen for either of these two shows, which was a bad sign. With these cancellations, the only CW shows that don't know their fate are iZombie and The Originals.
On Thursdays, I go through classic series with a critical look at each season. Today I am looking at Season Five (the final season) of Rhoda ! RHODA: SEASON FIVE 1978 13 episodes Rhoda' s final season was a truncated one as the show was cancelled in December 1978 after only 13 episodes had been produced (and only nine had aired). This feels like a continuation from season four in many ways except with the ill-advised split between Ida and Martin (more on that below). While Rhoda has an occasional good moment and even a couple decent episodes, it is a show that seems so wildly different from season one and not in a good way. Rhoda could never figure out what it fully wanted to be and only made it four and a half seasons as a result. Starring Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern (13 episodes) Julie Kavner as Brenda Morgenstern (13 episodes) Ray Buktenica as Benny Goodwin (11 episodes) Kenneth McMillan as Jack Doyle (9 episodes) Nancy Wa...
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