"Eye on the Bay", KPIX/CBS5's mostly antiseptic magazine show begun in 2005, is being cancelled, according to a reliable station source.
The source tells me that the show will be out in about six months, maybe sooner.
"Ratings aren't terrible so I'm not quite sure of the reasoning and what its going to be replaced with, " said the source.
"EOTB" is hosted by Bay Area news veterans, Brian Hackney and Thuy Vu.
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I watched every now and then..when it went to High Def,I watched more.
ReplyDeleteIts like a cycle...they replace with cheaper syndicated stuff for 2-3 years,get worse ratings,then a light bulb goes off! "Lets do a evening eye of the bay area show!" ..ahhh BRILLIANT!.
Ask Jan and Richard,"Dirt Jobs" Mike Rowe. Include Mac..and Mutly.
I was really getting tired of Liam anyhow...he's so annoying!
ReplyDeleteThat's sad. I got to know so much about the Bay Area with this show and visited so many places because I saw them there.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Liam. But I too couldn't dig him. Bring back Jan and Richard!
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Malou?
ReplyDeleteI thought the headline meant that they were doing a show about the Sunset district.
ReplyDeleteDamn, no more Liam tasting a food dish then pressing his index finger to his lips and blubbering out some British superlative? What will I do??
ReplyDeleteWe really enjoyed the show and loved to visit featured sites - great weekend day trips.
ReplyDeleteWe won't get to see Liam "jump" anymore when he tastes food.
These type of shows always last only a few years, because they run out of topics. Remember "PM Magazine"? Same type of show. Gone. Same thing happened with "View From The Bay" in the afternoons on KGO. Now, it is called "7Live", but basically, they are almost doing the same things. They have even had that "Quinn" woman on from their "Live Well" network. She was what helped to bring down View From The Bay in the first place! My only concern with Eye On The Bay, is what will happen to Thuy Vu. She was an EXCELLENT journalist, and was great at anchoring. She NEVER flubbed a line, and she looks fantastic too!
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They should just re-brand it and call it Eye on Mexico since that is what California is striving to be.
ReplyDeleteThey could have segments on how Illegals are so much better than legal citizens.
What are the best places to get free heath care and how to work your way into getting free college education off tax payers.
I liked the show - you learn so much about our the great Bay Area...
ReplyDeleteInstead of having someone TELL you where to go and what to see, how about just getting into your car after looking at a map and figuring out some area you haven't seen yet and just GO... GO, dammit!
ReplyDeleteDo you think Columbus looked at his sundial and said, "would someone get me a homing pigeon and have Queen Isabella give me a hint of where we should go to explore the best place to put down roots in the New World?
Sometimes, "discovery" can have a brand-new meaning when it comes to places we haven't drilled into our photographic memories... heaven forbid we make a wrong turn and go somewhere we haven't been before.
I really like the show and followed every week.
ReplyDeleteIt had interesting places to visit around the Bay Area.
I never could understand having a Brit of all people hosting the show.
ReplyDeleteThey couldn't fill 30 minutes. Show ended at 7:23, commercials and then a 5 minute paid Pet Express segment.
ReplyDeleteThey will probably just replace it with some mind numbing reality show.
ReplyDeleteProduct placement has been going up.
ReplyDeleteThe Chevron show was straight out of corporate PR.
Don't care for Thuy's style, seems plastic to me.
That said, some good shows, some excellent, will miss that.
Glad to see it's going off the air. The show's hosts are the problems not the stories themselves. Liam is pompous. Thuy is a diva. Brian is a bore. Bring back Jan and Richard....they made it work and kept you interested...the new hosts including Malou can't cut it.
ReplyDeleteCan't agree with "Anonymous" more. Liam was so irritating. His behavior on Check Please did not help.
ReplyDelete1:49 pm is correct. Many people simply echo what they see on television or Facebook, etc. & take a trip that is totally planned & over scheduled. It's a photo opportunity.I don't have to do back to Columbus, just look at the change between the 70's & now. I would say people were a lot more spontaneous back in the day. You might roll a few for the road, but no need to take a million photos of every experience, you just did it. Of course people generally you were unreachable until you came back. Now as soon as some people get out of their driveway the Tweets, photos, posts, and video start.
ReplyDeleteLiam was a disgrace on check please, totally dissed asian food.
ReplyDeleteSorry to see Eye On The Bay go. I disagree that they're running out of stories when you think that another show, "Bay Area Backroads," ran on KRON-TV for about 20 years. They never seemed to run out of stories as they would revisit places they had go years before. Gosh, I miss that show and will miss EOTB.
ReplyDeleteSay what you will about the hosts (and yeah, I've got my own praises and gripes), but the show was rarely just about them. It really was about the area we live in, and an extended invitation to get to know it even better.
ReplyDeleteThe history was fun, the food was inviting, and the beautiful videography in HD was simply stunning.
I'm very sad to see yet another local show disappear. Now we are left with the local news and whatever NY wants us to see on our network affiliates.
It sounds silly to write this, but it's true that we are losing the reflection of ourselves on our local television channels (unless you're a really big fan of Henry's Garden).
Sorry, I stopped watching the show because they were doing nothing but auctions. Eye on the Bay is supposedly about local people and local stories. With 7+ million of us living in the area, you would think there is more than enough interesting material to fill a 30-min time slot?
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching because of 2 things:
ReplyDelete1. It was really only 20 minutes long.
2. It had a "format". They never mixed it up and did "nothing" when they visited a place. I got squirmy watching Liam telling people to say something (anything!) about themselves or their spot/business/whatever. Many people just like being left alone. And many of our places don't need a running narrative. Just be there.
People! You dumb asses. This is f--king mini Hollywood. They get paid to deceived the masses. Most of these f--king shows are infomericals.
ReplyDeleteI thought people from Bay Area are freaking smart. I forgot! You watched TV news and listen to KNBR and KGO radio too much. Some of you believed in the stuff that they sell.
Liam is a fat dork. He is not qualified to do anything else.
In real life, Thuy Vu is more hotter and much more authentic than Malou The Blue. She can sell the bull better than Malou.
In real life, Ms. Vu is a good poker player.
Fucking KPIX is run by morons!! This a good show, whoever is the dickhead running KPIX is clueless, firing John Kessler, Sydney Kohara and not Eye on the Bay. Boycott this station.
ReplyDeleteYou won't see a Yank doing "London Walks", so why the hell did we have a Brit trying to introduce US, of all people, to the place WE live? Brainless.
ReplyDeleteWhat we need is Captain Carrot to return to the airwaves.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, I wish Brian Hack-ney would drive that MG off a cliff.
ReplyDeleteThat is just plain nasty!
DeleteI don't watch much EonTB but I do like Thuy Vu as an local reporter/anchor and while he's no Anthony Moor as a local science editor,Brian Hackney's earthquake specials (mainly from his KRON days)are some of the most informative local stories around
ReplyDeleteThat liam is not brit, he is australian.
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ReplyDeleteHackney's wife is hot.
I see a "Keep the Eye on the Bay" protest.And a Facebook where thousands can sign. You go first,I'll follow.
ReplyDeleteEye on the Bay ceased being anything but sales department-driven infomercials years ago. There is no significance in its passing. The anchors and producers could have repeated previous segments ad infinitum and no one would have noticed or cared. The show's cancellation may delay layoffs in the newsroom, but that's about the best that can be said about it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Ms. Vu plays in those celebrity poker tournaments with Jennifer Tilly
ReplyDeleteHackney is smart. Thuy is smart and hot. But that fat little insult to England, Scotland, and Australia ,needs to be strapped in that MG and towed somewhere like Texas, or anywhere deep deep in the south. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteLiam is so annoying and i think he killed the show
ReplyDeleteIf ratings are fair and the show is well produced with a little more edge, then all is left is substantial sponsorship from clients who fit the format that are willing to step to the table for a long committment. It then appears that there would be a chance for success. However, management may have other ideas for that time slot, we don't really know.
ReplyDeleteI love the show because it has so many "unknown" spots and I think all the hosts are charming. Please keep the show on.
ReplyDeleteWatch an episode, last night. It was about Malibu Beach area, NOT San Francisco Bay Area. Just for that, it should be cancelled!!
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