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UPDATED: Saturday, January 4, 2003 17:41
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ATOMICBLONDE

Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:18 AM

Well you have to remmeber Fox the network and Fox the production company are 2 different entities...
Fox the network only has Firefly currently on Hiatus... They still havent said cancelled, on all their sites its still listed as airing at 8pm... The yare undecided.. and say they will air the last 3 episodes...

FOx the production company is willing to work with any network that does buy the show if it is going to be for sale...
So Fox in general doesnt suck....

AS written here from the Joss yahoo group today

From Kiba:

> The show is officially on hiatus.
> FOX (the network) paid for 3 episodes which have not yet aired.
> FOX (the network) is currently holding on to the rights to air those
> episodes and has told Mutant Enemy that they intend to do so, but when
they
> do is quite uncertain.
> FOX (the network) has ordered no new episodes, but 20th Century Fox
> Television (the production company) is willing to go back to work on the
> show with new episodes if another network wants to license the show.
>
> That is all.

JOHNNYREB

Sunday, December 29, 2002 4:21 AM

Don't get me wrong. FOX has put out a lot of good stuff. But I still won't watch the FOX network ever again, unless it's to catch whatever Firefly I can.

Viva Firefly

RIANNA5

Saturday, January 4, 2003 6:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JOHNNYREB:
Don't get me wrong. FOX has put out a lot of good stuff. But I still won't watch the FOX network ever again, unless it's to catch whatever Firefly I can.

Viva Firefly

I'm with you here. The only thing on FOX *is* Firefly. From what I saw tonight, they're putting Fastlane on in place of Firefly! Has anyone at FOX even seen Fastlane?! What a waste of flim that show is! Nothing but flashy guns, cars, eyecandy and no real storylines.

Like I said, I'm with you on not watching FOX except for what (if any) Firefly I can find on it!

RAGNAROKGS

Saturday, January 4, 2003 7:13 AM

Unfortunately, the people who really matter, the nielson families, are going to watch FOX again. Some good news, though, FOX seems to be killing John Doe the same way that they killed FireFly... instead of actually airing the show they're airing movies or a special... deja vu.

I take some comfort in the fact that another show I thought had potential (not as much as FF, but hey) may be slowly but surely heading towards the same fate as FireFly. Then again, I actually kind of hope it stays on the air... its way better than most of the other trash on the air, especially on FOX.

And if I am ever hit by a truck and given brain damage, causing me to actually want to watch Fastlane, I'll just pop in my Fast and the Furious DVD... its the same damn thing!

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RagNaRoK *gs*
"Ich kodiere, folglich bin ich."

CARDIE

Saturday, January 4, 2003 5:41 PM

With the internet, every show that is cancelled generates a fan campaign. A lousy show, derided by critics and cancelled after three episodes, will have some fans who sincerely believe it to be unique and special. Very few fan campaigns have ever brought back a show from cancellation. Campaigns that get started early enough can sometimes sway undecided execs who haven't made up their minds. UPN was looking for a reason to keep Roswell, and they hoped that the publicity about the tabasco bottles would boost ratings. Cagney and Lacey was brought back because the publicity about its campaign, plus personal appearances in local markets by Gless and Daly, caused the ratings for the reruns of its supposedly last season to sky-rocket.

Because fan campaigns are now expected, fans keep raising the stakes, such as sending tabasco bottles--we sent plastic eggs in the unsuccesful "Save Now and Again" campaign--or buying ads. But every other campaign soon picks up these tricks and they become ho-hum as well. The only reason to have a fan campaign in my opinion is that they are so common that a show would certainly seem unloved if it couldn't generate one. However, fan outcry alone does nothing. It's at best one card that the show creators and producers have to play in their negotiations with networks, and in those negotiations, the bottom line is a lot more persuasive than your postcard or mine.

Cardie

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