UPN has passed on Firefly

POSTED BY: spav
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SPAV

Thursday, January 9, 2003 10:46 PM

from timminear.net:

[Jan 09, 03] We have received confirmation from a source at 20th Century Fox that UPN has passed on Firefly. Thank you, everyone, for your tremendous support.

HAKEN

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:20 PM

Bummers.

SERGEANTX

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:21 PM

Sorry for that first post (this is the edit). Very unhappy news on returning home from work. I'm so tired of living in a world full of semi-conscious cattle.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

BITTY

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:24 PM

And thus, I mourn.

I need a "crying" emoticon.

MOOSE

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:30 PM

Okay. So where do I send my next batch of postcards to?

RIV

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:39 PM

How could they pass on this great show?! UPN is being if you ask me. With Buffy ending this season, they'll need a new show, and what better show then Firefly? After all, their newest show (Abby, I think) hasn't got wonderful reviews, but they'd rather have that then a show that was praised by many and loved by over 4 million people? Put, Firefly on after Buffy and call it "Joss Tuesday."

Okay, where can we send postcards now?

Something's going down tonight! Something with the man!

Two by two. Hand of blue.

BOBKNAPTOR

Thursday, January 9, 2003 11:54 PM

Geez.... I'm so depressed. damn. so... what's next? FX? USA? the dreaded SciFi?

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Don't feel bad. He makes everybody cry. He's like a monster.

BROWNCOAT

Friday, January 10, 2003 12:08 AM

Wow.....

I can't believe it's all over like that. You'd think the news would have spread very quick, and very fast, yet the only thing we have to show for it is a one liner on Tim's site.

Oh well..if it's for real, it won't stay a one liner on that site for very long....

geezus h....

I really had hope, you know? I really thought it was going to work....

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Friday, January 10, 2003 12:15 AM

Here's a thought.

It's common knowledge that while the finial decision has yet to be made, it is almost certainly the end of Buffy. Or is it? Perhaps UPN declined Firefly at first so it can use the series pickup as a bargaining chip for Buffy. Basically, now UPN is in a position to go to Joss Whedon and say, "How much do you love Firefly? Enough to make another season of Buffy?"

I know, it's a stupid conspiracy theory. I know it's out there. But it is also remotely possible.

Flame away.

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Your logic is insane and happenstance, like that of a troll.

BROWNCOAT

Friday, January 10, 2003 12:26 AM

It's a nice thought, but no.

UPN wouldn't play their hand that quickly. No corporate suit would. If they turn down Firefly now, they burn bridges that they don't want to or have to cross. Which probably means that they've given up hope of getting Season 8 out of Buffy. No...they've made their decision, and they aren't going to reneg on it. It's just that simple.

If I was Joss, I sure the hell wouldn't be amicable to helping UPN get Buffy 8 if they wanted it, but Joss is probably a better man than me, in that regard.

God damnit...I really really really had hope for this one thing in life. I know it's just a TV show, and it sounds silly, but it really turned into more than that..this struggle turned into an us vs. them fight..a metaphor for what little decency is left in popular culture vs. the mind-numbing crap that the networks continue to vomit upon us. I figured that fortune would favor the bold...so much for that....

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