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What has happened to The O.C.?
by Anna Johns, posted Dec 5th 2006 10:24AM
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article pondering the demise of The O.C. It lost 26% of its audience when season two started up. Then 15% more disappeared (myself included) for season three. And, now in season four, The O.C. lost a whopping 39% of its crucial, age 18-49 viewers from last season. It's in so much trouble that the network has even launched an online effort to save the show. (Or gauge viewer interest)Why?
The article includes a very frank interview with The O.C. creator, Josh Schwartz, who admits some mistakes. He says, opening up the series during season two to include storylines for the parents was too much to juggle. When it started to get stale, he killed off Caleb Nichol. Smart move, he says. But, he wonders whether it was such a hot idea to kill off Marissa Cooper's character at the end of last season.
Fox launches a campaign to 'Save The O.C.'
by Anna Johns, posted Dec 1st 2006 6:29PM
It's no secret that The O.C. is in trouble. It consistently ranks #4 up against tough competition on Thursday nights and it lost its star, Mischa Barton, at the end of last season. Now, Fox has taken the unusual step of launching its own campaign to save The O.C. from cancellation. There's a petition, or 'loyalty oath' on Fox's website. It doesn't directly say that The O.C. is in danger of cancelation, but it does say "not enough people out there have come back to Newport this season" and "good shows deserve to be watched." It asks visitors to sign a 'loyalty oath' that they will ignore all interruptions and watch The O.C. on Thursdays at nine. The whole thing is done a little tongue-in-cheek, but only a little. So far there are more than 71,000 'signatures' but that's probably not nearly enough to 'Save The O.C.', if it really does need saving.[Via PopCandy]
The O.C. will be online ahead of premiere date
by Anna Johns, posted Oct 24th 2006 1:39PM
The season premiere of The O.C. will debut online one week before its premiere date on Fox. The entire episode will be available for early viewing on MySpace and MyFoxLocal websites in 24 owned and operated television markets beginning this Thursday. It premieres on the network on Thursday, November 2nd. The second episode will also debut online before it airs on the Fox network.The O.C. is the latest in a long line of Fox shows that debuted online this season, including Prison Break, Justice, Vanished, 'Til Death, Bones, Happy Hour and The Loop. Of all those, The O.C. probably has the most to gain from early internet exposure. So far, Fox has only ordered half a season and, in its new 9 o'clock time slot, The O.C. is going up against heavy-hitters Grey's Anatomy and CSI. Even Howie Mandel looks like a threat at this point.
FOX won't commit to a full season of The O.C.
by Anna Johns, posted Jun 29th 2006 9:12AM
Facing some intimidating competition this fall, FOX has only ordered up 16 episodes of season four of The O.C. The network moved the teen soap opera to the 9 pm Thursday slot. After all the upfronts were announced, it turns out The O.C. is now scheduled against ratings juggernauts CSI and Grey's Anatomy. This is dicey news for The O.C., which has averaged 25 episodes for its first three seasons. But, the show may have died anyway since the writers killed off the extremely unlikable Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton). Plus, who knows whether it will have any legs as the kids head off to college (most likely in the same town)?You know, I think the show got really dull this year. How many times can we see Ryan and Marissa break up? And how many times can we see Seth and Summer fight? I think three seasons is all The O.C. had in it.
Mischa Barton happy about Marissa's death
by Anna Johns, posted May 23rd 2006 9:19AM
Mischa Barton and I are both happy about her character's death on The O.C. last week. We just have different reasons. I am just thrilled that she's no longer on the show. Mischa, however, says she's happy her character, Marissa Cooper, got killed in a car wreck rather than "one of those lame farewells." She told Newsweek, "Well, I was really excited that I got to die, to be honest. I've done pretty much everything else with that character." Like pout. And drink. And do drugs. And pout some more. She said that the decision to kill of her character was the producers', not hers. But, she says, she's ready to focus on movies now. She was only on The O.C. for three seasons.The O.C.: The Graduates (finale)
by Lacy Hall, posted May 19th 2006 1:16AM
(S03E25) The trailers promised us that someone MAY not survive the season finale and they were right. Someone MAY not have survived. But the MAY and the plot history of The O.C. is what puts it all in question. There was most definitely a jilted ex-lover. And definitely a serious car wreck. Definitely an explosion. And most definitely it looked like a main character said their final, unrecognizable words before they stopped breathing. But the MAY is still there. Why?Who should The O.C. kill off?
by Anna Johns, posted May 17th 2006 8:09AM
FOX has an interesting promo running in hopes that we'll all scurry to watch the season finale of The O.C. on Thursday night. It shows the main characters and tells us that one of them won't survive the night. The characters it shows are: Seth, Summer, Marissa, Ryan, Kirsten, Julie Cooper, and Sandy.I think I have a pretty good idea of who it's going to be, but my official vote is for the untimely demise of Marissa.
Coyote visits The O.C. set
by Adam Finley, posted May 10th 2006 1:03PM
According to reports, a coyote sneaked onto the set of The OC recently and found its way into Mischa Barton's trailer, where it ate her food and was later discovered by Barton and her co-star, Rachel Bilson. The crew were able to chase the coyote out of the trailer and off the set. That's all that's being reported, but I figured their had to be more to the story, so I tracked down the coyote for a brief interview:
The O.C.: The Man of the Year
by Lacy Hall, posted May 5th 2006 3:48PM
(S03E24) Prom is over and enter the aftermath. But surprise, surprise...Volchok? Not dead. Thank God. Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly care if the guy lives or dies, but it would have just been bizarro times infinity if another one of Marissa's love interests ended up in the morgue. She does seem to like them on the brink of death.
But nope, Ryan rushes (not really, more like leisurely drives) Volchok to the hospital during a trippy, light-filled montage, and Volchok awakes without even seeing a doctor. Volchok (ever the good guy) doesn't sell Ryan out and claims he was jumped by a group of thugs. But it turns out that Volchok is not "ever the good guy."
The O.C.: The Party Favor
by Anna Johns, posted Apr 28th 2006 1:33AM
(S03E23) What has
happened to our wonderful little group of four? Remember back in the day when everybody got along? Yeah, I think there
was one episode where that happened way back in Season One. They were on a beach or something.This week it's all about Senior Prom and, quite frankly, I have given up trying to suspend my disbelief that any of these characters remotely looks like they're in high school. The characters seemed really subdued to me this week. I guess that's because they're all bummed out about their respective situations. Ryan isn't with Marissa but he does know that Kevin is cheating on her. Seth can't find a way to explain to Summer that there's nothing between him and Anna. And, Kirsten and Sandy are moping about because he's turning into her father and she's turning back to the bottle.
The O.C.: The College Try
by Lacy Hall, posted Apr 21st 2006 6:02PM
(S03E22) This was one of those
weird episodes where suspension of disbelief is absolutely necessary. Somehow (only with the magic of television),
Berkeley and Brown are both having their incoming freshman weekends the same weekend. Weird. Especially
weird that they would have an incoming freshman weekend months and months and months before the school
semester even starts. But whatever. It's The O.C. and I forgive.Mischa Barton vacant in new photo shoot
by Anna Johns, posted Apr 19th 2006 8:49AM
The O.C. star Mischa Barton
is the new spokesmodel for BeBe clothing line and the photos of her are downright
mannequin-like. Dead, even. Her eyes look completely vacant in every photo and it's totally freaking me out.[Via Pop Candy]
The O.C.: The Dawn Patrol
by Lacy Hall, posted Apr 14th 2006 12:36PM
(S03E21) So much happened on last night's episode, I just don't know where to start. I'll just jump
to the part that shocked me most -- the attempted rape of that poor girl at Volchok's party. Marissa sees one of
Volchok's slimy friends slip a questionable liquid into the beer of an already wasted girl. Him and some of his buddies
then take the passed-out girl outside to a van to tag team her. For a few minutes, I actually didn't think that Marissa
was going to do anything other than remain her passive aggressive self. Luckily(!), Marissa follows them outside and
claims that she needed to get into the van because she left her sweatshirt in there (passive aggressive!). If I saw
some guys doing that to a girl at a party, it'd be hard to tell me apart from the Incredible Hulk because I'd rip the
doors off that van. In fact, it wouldn't even get that far because I would have ninja-kicked that beer out of the
dude's hand before he could even think about giving it to her. Marissa didn't do any of those things, but she did
(thankfully) stop the rape, so I won't criticize.Get Seth Cohen's comic on your phone
by Anna Johns, posted Apr 10th 2006 11:19AM
Seth Cohen's graphic novel is
jumping off the small screen and onto an even smaller one. Seth's character on The O.C. created a graphic
novel based on his family and friends, called Atomic County. That comic has been turned into a cartoon and will be
available to Verizon wireless customers. The premise of the 14-episode series is that someone stole Seth's drawings and
then the drawings come to life. The animated shorts will last three minutes. In addition, subscribers will get
behind-the-scenes video and bloopers of The O.C.Mischa Barton leaving The O.C.?
by Jonathan Toomey, posted Apr 8th 2006 10:03AM
America's favorite troubled teenager might be walking away from her job. Rumors are
flying that Mischa Barton has had enough of her role as Marissa Cooper on The O.C.
Supposedly, Barton is worried about being type-cast as well as the show's mediocre ratings. I suppose I can't blame her for being ticked off about the ratings. Stacking this show (any show for that matter) against CSI is going to hurt eventually. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this season ends. It'll be weird if Marissa is involved with any sort of cliffhanger only to be absent when the next season rolls around. If she does leave, the show just won't be the same. Anyone think it would work without her?
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