I watched every episode of Flashforward and it seemed to get worse as the season went on. I still think it has potential though. I just hope they don't cancel V, which is a much more interesting show. Plus it has hot chicks and Juliet from lost.

Everyone is quick to rag on NBC and I don't mind that. I only watch one show there, but ABC has been killing shows for years. Murder One,Life On Mars,Eli Stone, Karen Sisco, The great "Vengeance Unlimited" with Michael Madsen, and remember they tried hard to kill Alias. That show had 4 different regular nights and 6 different start times. Now I'm going to lose Flash Forward and the Forgotten. With the prevalence of movies on the net for free I really don't have to risk "investing" my time on any of it. Oh yeah, I'm in the VERY IMPORTANT advertiser demographic too.

"It would be lovely if the author explained what a SHOWRUNNER IS."

Well, it's a compound word made up of smaller words. Try looking at those smaller words very closely, and I bet you'll get a clue as to what "showrunner" means.

It is too bad because the premise of this show and the possibilities were quite good. Much thought seems to have gone in to what would happen to people-- their minds, their futures, their relationships...based on a mere glimpse of the future...but too much time was devoted to rehashing one plot point and not enough to developing the others. I do hope they get the train back on track and save this one.

A "Show Runner" is the person that well... runs the show. The do everything from writing, budgeting, casting, etc. They are the brains and well it the brain is dead, so is the body (cast). makes or breaks a show.

A showrunner means you're not actually showing the whole program,series or event,whatever it may be,but you're only testing it out to see how many people will follow your lead

To bad ABC botched the show so bad. They must have hired some of the NBC folks that got fired..........

IMO, the way in which stations run televison seasons is weird. Television seasons used to run from September to May (or around there), re-runs in the summer, and usually a short 1 or 2 week break during the Christmas holiday. Now, it seems, that they run a few months, take a long hiatus during the winter months, and come back in the spring for a few episodes. I lose interest waiting for the show to come back on. Especially when the hiatus is MONTHS, not just a few weeks.

It would be lovely if the author explained what a SHOWRUNNER IS.

What the heck is a showrunner?