WB's 'Hill' put on hold
11 episodes searching for new timeslot
"Hill," from Castle Rock Entertainment, scored a meager 1.1 rating/2 share in its timeslot bow last Friday at 8 p.m., falling 33% below the WB's previous week tally with "The Jamie Foxx Show." A sneak preview earlier in the season also scored subpar numbers.
The poor ratings, combined with audience awareness tracking studies showing few viewers even knew "Hill" had debuted, prompted the WB's decision.
"This is a series that we have high hopes for," said WB Entertainment prexy Susanne Daniels. "In talking with (Castle Rock Television topper) Glenn Padnick, we mutually felt that the best plan for the show would be to hold on to the remaining 11 original episodes until we could find a compatible program to pair it with and the right timeslot."
Padnick said the hiatus "was at our suggestion. ... The first airing on Friday demonstrated to us that the program would be better served by relaunching it midseason."
"Hill," from exec producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, focuses on an ensemble of characters living in a big city downtown neighborhood.
