New Year’s Resolutions: Deputy needs to do something unique
Deputy is one of the newest TV crime dramas on our TV screens, but it’s not doing well in the ratings. Here’s the New Year’s Resolution it needs to make.
Deputy is the TV crime drama that needs to make a New Year’s Resolution today. If it wants to survive, something needs to change quickly, although arguably, that isn’t possible now. If it does manage to get a second season, then these are changes it needs to consider.
Right now, Deputy is struggling in the ratings, losing viewers every single week. The show already started on the low side, but the audience and demo are both falling. And not just a little. By this point, a new show would need to start stabilizing in the views, but with the constant falls, Deputy is now the third lowest-rated show on FOX.
But what change can it make? With the episodes filmed, there’s nothing it can do now. If FOX does decide to take a risk and renew it for a second season, it can make changes moving forward.
The show: Deputy
The resolution: Do something unique
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Why it needs to be made: If you’ve watched plenty of TV crime dramas like me, you’ll be able to guess every single storyline Deputy has done. There’s nothing different that makes this series stand out. It’s just another straight white male in the lead role, having to deal with a job that he never really wanted.
Most of the characters are predictable. The storylines are most definitely standard, and the writing hasn’t been all that great. And this is a show I wanted to last as a Stephen Dorff fan. Sadly, I just don’t see that happening.
About 10 or 20 years ago, this show would have survived. It would have gained an audience that was excited to see where things are going. But we’ve changed a lot in that time. We’ve had so many TV crime dramas that have made us think differently or left us on the edges of our seats, that we’re craving something constantly different from any new show on the market.
While the writers may be happy to deliver an old-fashioned western cop drama, that isn’t going to cut it now for viewers. There are going to be the odd one or two people out there that want to see the classics on TV again, but more people crave something unique. With so much TV available, especially with the streaming services, audiences aren’t going to stick around if they’re bored.
Losing 34% of the demo and 33% of the audience over four episodes is a bad sign for the series. It doesn’t help that this show is on a competitive night, up against ABC’s TGIT. This should have been a sign that Deputy needed to do something unique long before it was made.
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Deputy airs Thursdays at 9/8c on FOX.