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Gone: American Horror Story

It's bad news if you have been watching the American Horror Story replay on ELEVEN.

AMERICAN-HORROR-STORY-FX-It’s bad news if you have been watching the American Horror Story replay on ELEVEN.

It’s been pulled from schedules.

I thought it might have just been off air for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, both being Monday nights, but ELEVEN amendments indicate it has been pulled in early January too.

Meanwhile no sign yet of Season Two.

I see AMH as an uber-cool show that could have generated some genuine buzz on TEN (and not ELEVEN) but I seem to be in the minority there…

21 Responses

  1. @ Secret Squirrel – I agree.
    At my work we’re wondering why when atrocities happen in other countries, like Syria for instance, why no one in TV land seems to feel the need to alter their programming then? But when it’s America, it’s imperative because the rest of the media will pounce….
    My point was more.. you can’t criticise TEN on one hand for not pulling The Simpsons featuring martial arts..? and then criticise them for pulling AHS which has a High School massacre…

    1. Syria is a good observation. In response to your point, my original note about timing still stands. It was about programming at the time of the massacre, not about programming in mid January.

      On what basis have you confirmed AHS was pulled due to massacre anyway? Frankly if TEN did pull it due to the shooting, why did they let Simpsons stand?

  2. @ditto – in answer to your question, I’m over it now. It happened in another country and, as Pertinax says, is not exactly an infrequent occurrence. It would be different if the tragedy had happened here.

    I don’t see unconnected people getting as upset over the number of innocent civilians that the US kills every day by remote-controlled drones so this apparent grief is a little hypocritical.

  3. Boo-urns Channel 10. Sit on the rights to something that could be big, and when you do eventually show it, no-one is going to care because its “old news” by then… or you’ll throw it on Eleven at some stupid time, and no-one will notice it.

    Series 1 is great, and although it might be a touchy subject … c’mon, its rated M / MA, and we can’t ban anything slightly related to what happened forever.

    Series 2 is even better, although it takes an episode or two to kick in … something great about seeing the same actors return as different characters (very excited to see one who was stated as “not returning” appear towards the end).

  4. Would be nice if 10 could say when it would return for the many people who are watching. Have seen it already and am waiting for 2nd season. Trying to avoid any plot spoilers. There will be plenty of shows with guns like NCIS and Hawaii 5 ohh which is on at 8.30 as The New Normal has disappeared, again. Was fun summer trash. I did tune into a movie on 11 the other day and was not what was advertised.

  5. David.. when will people be over it and feel comfortable watching kids getting massacred in a school again. Mid-January is in four weeks??!!
    Is that enough time for the public to grieve and get back to watching the gun-toting violence on TV they so adored only last week?

    1. Clearly those close to it will never have enough time to get over it. Nor should we expect them to. I agree it would have been in dubious taste to play explicit scenes this week. And I even get it’s not ideal programming for Xmas Eve. I would have thought by January it could resume, yes. I would hazard a guess there will be plenty of guns in TV drama by then, including TEN shows.

  6. There are hundreds of shootings every day in the US. And mass shootings nearly every week. Should they pull shows every week?

    Violence on TV has nothing to do with it. It is purely down to US culture that regards ownership of high powered weapons as important.

    Just because it is the silly season and the media has no better way to try and make money than to obesses about this shooting doesn’t make it health to do so.

  7. @ mitch… yeah I didn’t think of that! Can you imagine if they aired the massacre!!! That would be dreadful Programming. Looks like someone does care after all.
    I don’t think we should complain about them not pulling one thing, and then complain when they do pull another… consistency is key…

  8. Typical. There was too much on first time around and I gambled on it being a likely repeat. I’ve been watching it this time despite the late finishes. I hope that it is just off for the Xmas-NY period and back on first or second week of Jan.

    I must say that I agree that Ten should have put this on 10. I don’t think it would have made much diff ratings-wise with what they’ve been showing, and they could have tried to generate some social -media buzz thru Zeebox and then launch S2 off the back of it.

  9. maybe it’s just for now, Xmas and New Years. they could always wait till Feb for season 2 so if they bring back double ep repeats after new years they can continue on with Season 2 afterwards, paired with Supernatural when ever that returns.

  10. Season 1 plot line revolves around a high-school massacre. The story was powerful & relevant because it dealt with an actual problem of mental health & violence in schools. Keeping it running on 11 would have caused unwanted attention i.e ratings.

    1. One wouldn’t want explicit scenes playing this week, and I thought it may have been a choice not to run it on Xmas Eve, so I didn’t blog on the first amendment. Not sure it needs to stay off well into January….

  11. David I think you’ll find there’s a high school massacre in AHS. Ten can’t win if it’s in, can’t win if it’s out. I think there’s also a scene in ep 6 of kids doing mixed martial arts, and that would be way too inappropriate to air right now, right?

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