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5.4/10 TV Created by Ivan Goff
Ben Roberts First episode date 22 September 2011 Number of seasons 1 | 4.4/10 IMDb Genre Action
Crime
Drama Composer(s) Louis Febre Final episode date 10 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developed by Alfred Gough
Miles Millar Starring Annie Ilonzeh
Minka Kelly
Rachael Taylor
Ramón Rodríguez
Victor Garber
John Terry Theme music composer Jack Elliott
Allyn Ferguson Network American Broadcasting Company Executive producers Drew Barry, Leonard Goldberg, Nancy Juvonen Cast Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor, Annie Ilonzeh, Ramón Rodríguez, Robert Wagner Similar Burn Notice, CSI: Miami, Asian Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five‑0, Dark Blue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charlie s angels 2011 tv series official trailer
Charlie's Angels is a remake developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for ABC, based upon the 1976 series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. The series premiered on ABC on September 22, 2011.
Contents
- Charlie s angels 2011 tv series official trailer
- Cast and characters
- Development
- Critical response
- Ratings and cancellation
- International broadcasts
- DVD releases
- References
On October 14, 2011, ABC had canceled the series after only four episodes; it burned-off three of the remaining four episodes and concluded on November 10, 2011.
Cast and characters
Development
A remake of the original series had been announced since late 2009, when screenwriter Josh Friedman was hired to write a pilot script. Friedman's script was ultimately rejected, and ABC hired Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to pen a new version. In an interview, Alfred Gough expressed his desire to avoid doing anything "campy or retro." He later stated, "The characters are real and emotionally grounded, but they still like to have fun, wear great clothes, solve crime, and kick some serious ass...we hope to surprise people and bring a whole new generation to Charlie's Angels."
Robert Wagner was set to star as Charlie, but due to scheduling conflicts, had to exit the project. After an exhaustive search, Victor Garber was finally cast as the new voice of Charlie.
Veteran television director Marcos Siega directed the pilot. Filming began in Miami on March 8, 2011. On May 13, 2011, ABC picked the project up to series. ABC later announced that the show would air Thursdays at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central, starting at the beginning of the 2011–12 United States network television season.
Critical response
The show received mostly negative reviews. Many reviewers criticized the acting, confusing plot, and useless action scenes. Metacritic gives the show a score of 30% based on reviews from 22 critics.
Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe gave the show a "C" grade commenting "The underwhelming cast brings nothing to the boilerplate action. Kelly is miscast as a biker chick, and making Bosley a hunk with computer skills fails to add life." IGN's Matt Fowler named the pilot the worst pilot of the fall, pointing out the bad acting and writing, saying that he didn't "believe that these ladies could change a flat tire, much less take down a notorious human trafficker" and that the series should have gone dark like Nikita or copied the tone of Burn Notice.
On December 26, 2011 Hitfix.com's Alan Sepinwall listed the reboot on his "Lumps of coal: The worst TV I watched in 2011", stating "it just chose horribly wrong, with a grim, ultra-serious take that robbed whatever campy/cheesey fun you might have expected from the brand name, and with a collection of terrible performances and bad writing that undercut any attempt to give the Angels some dramatic heft."
Ratings and cancellation
The pilot episode drew only a 2.1/6 among the 18–49 demos with 8.76 million viewers in Thursday slot on ABC.
Thirteen episodes of the series were ordered. However, after the fourth episode aired, ABC announced on October 14, 2011 that it had decided to cancel the series because of the low ratings. The eighth and final episode of the show was never aired on ABC, but was aired by AXN in Poland in late December 2011 and aired by Cinemax Latinoamerica & E4 in the UK in January 2012.
Shortly before the show ended, Minka Kelly made a post of her thoughts on Twitter about the cancellation of the show with her fans. "I've had a wonderful time working with this incredible crew and amazing cast. I've made friends 4 life! A beautiful experience. #CharliesAngels." ABC president Paul Lee stated also after the cancellation of the show, “I don’t think we breathed life into that franchise but I think it was a strong attempt.”
International broadcasts
DVD releases
Charlie's Angels is available on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.