08.21.04 USA's 'Evil' Won't Last to Second Season By Brian Ford Sullivan
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- USA is pulling the plug on its freshman drama "Touching Evil," as a network spokesman confirmed earlier this week the cable channel will not renew the series for a second season.
The news comes as USA is experiencing record series numbers from its summer entry "The 4.400" as well as strong showings by regulars "The Dead Zone" and "Monk."
"Evil" debuted in March on Friday nights to the tune of 3.37 million viewers, falling to 2.3 million on average by the following month. A last ditch effort to relaunch the series on Mondays at 10:00/9:00c didn't ignite any ratings sparks either.
Bruce Willis, Arnold Rifkin, Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Robert Palm and Antony Root were the executive producers of "Evil."
As for USA's other originals, "The 4.400" closed its five-week run on Sunday with 6.1 million viewers tuning in, including a 2.3 rating/6 share among adults 18-49, while lead-out "The Dead Zone" continued to fare well, earning 4.6 million viewers and a 2.0 rating/6 share in adults 18-49.
Friday mainstay "Monk" also remained a powerhouse this past weekend, earning 5.8 million viewers and a 1.7 rating/6 share among adults 18-49, both season highs for the series.
06.09.04 Touching Evil's Season One Finale
Touching Evil's season one finale will air on Monday June 14, 2004. This episode is 75 minutes long so set up your VCR's for a long epsidoe.
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04.17.04 Ratings: Touching Evil - Good and Bad
After opening to a less-than-spectacular 3.37 million total viewers on March 12, the midseason drama has averaged an even worse 2.3 million viewers in the three weeks since. Nevertheless, the series is up 122% in year-to-year time slot comparisons and has seen its audience grow from 776,000 to 1.21 million among adults 18-49 and 1.078 million to 1.311 million among adults 25-54 between its third and fourth episodes. Less encouraging however is the fact those year-to-year comparisons are against repeats of "Monk."
04.02.04 Touching Evil Season Finale
The midseason drama is currently set to wrap its first season on Friday, June 11 at 10:00/9:00c according to published schedules.
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03.17.04 Touching Evil's Ratings
3.4 million viewers tuned into the two-hour opener to USA's latest original series, including a 1.5 rating/4 share in adults 25-54 and a 1.1/3 in adults 18-49. Those scores represent a more-than-100% increase over the previous year's time period average. "Evil" also built on lead-in "Law & Order: S.V.U." (1.1/3 in 25-54, 0.9/3 in 18-49, 3.1 million overall) in all categories. Nevertheless, "Evil's" audience was well behind the premieres of such recent originals as "The Dead Zone" (6.4 million on 6/16/02), "Peacemakers" (5.2 million on 7/30/03) and "Monk" (4.8 million on 7/12/02) however said debuts came during the broadcast networks' off-season. Overall, "Evil" was the most-watched program in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 among all cable networks in its second hour, but fell short of TNT's broadcast premiere of "Men in Black" for its opening hour. In terms of overall audience, the two-hour premiere was the second most-watched program on cable on Friday, behind only the network premiere of "Toy Story 2" on the Disney Channel (4.1 million).
02.06.04 Touching Evil spin off of Touching Evil? - UPDATED
FYI: Apparently, Jeffrey Donovan's Touching Evil is a spin off of an old British 'hit series'. The original Touching Evil had three seasons consisting of six episodes. Robson Green protrayed Dave Creegan in the British series. The show premise seems a bit different in the regard that Jeffrey's Creegan has survived a near death experience after being shot in the head, leaving him a bit different than he was before.
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01.26.04 Touching Evil kick off
USA is hoping to add a third tent pole to its original series lineup as the cable channel has scheduled the premiere of "Touching Evil" for Friday, March 12th.The drama will kick off with a two-hour premiere beginning at 9/8c that night before settling into the 10/9c hour the following week. USA has committed to 11 episodes of the series in addition to its two-hour pilot. "Evil" takes the place of "Monk," which wraps its second season on March 5.Here's how USA describes "Touching Evil" (via press release):Allen and Albery Hughes (Menace II Society, From Hell) make their television debut as executive producers of Touching Evil, a USA Network original series based on the hit series by British Granada Television. Cheyenne Enterprise principals Arnold Rifkin (Tears of the Sun. Crocodile Hunter) and Bruce Willis (Armageddon, Die Hard) also executive produce the series. The series pilot is directed by Allen Hughes and penned by Bruno Heller (The Expendables, The Huntress).Jeffrey Donovan (Storyteller, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Pretender) stars as Detective David Creegan, who after surviving a near fatal gunshot wound to the head, takes a 12-month psychological leave of absence. He returns to work for the FBI's new Organization and Serial Crime Unit, a rapid-response, elite crime squad. His brush with death renders him fearless in his relentless pursuit of justice as he and his partner Vera Farminga (UC: Undercover) specialize in solving shocking, high profile crimes.PHQ: Apparently Det. Creegan also has no shame and was dead for 10-minutes. Can't wait to see the pilot.
01.21.04 Bruce Willis Executive Producer
Touching Evil will be produced by actor Bruce Willis. There was a mention that Bruce might make a guest appearance on the series, which is set to air on March 12th.
01.20.04 Jeffrey Donovan (Kyle) Touching Evil
Jeffrey Donovan comes to the USA Network on Friday March 12th at 9pm for his new series Touching Evil. Touching Evil has been credited as a mini-series when really it is going to be a show. Jeffrey plays Detective Creegan, a man who died for 10 minutes but then is brought back to life. Vera Farmiga from UC: Undercover will also star. Updates about this show will be posted as they become available.
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