Fux pimping Joe Millionaire on Food Network

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SUINEGAGPF

Thursday, January 9, 2003 2:50 AM

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Originally posted by bobknaptor:
Let's HOPE they can't duplicate it. There's enough crap out there without Joe Millionaire 2.

Apparently you missed one of FOX's self-promotional advertisements during that show.

It starts out: "Over 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce. Can FOX do any worse? Coming this March..." and then it goes on to say that we the audience will have the opportunity to phone in and vote on which people on the show should pair up and get married.

Woohoo!... The ability to mess up other people's lives while the FOX executives get rich off of it. You got to hand it to FOX, they do know how to make money. I bet they're the envy of every other network.

(Short of detonating a tactical nuke at FOX's Television Headquarters, I wouldn't hold out much hope that they would ever care about anything other than money.)

Oh, and I have no doubt that what FOX has planned for next year will make Joe Millionaire look completely ethical by comparison.

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GIRLIE

Thursday, January 9, 2003 5:41 AM

Well you know with the government preaching the virtues of marriage FOX is just trying to do it's part. After all if they can encourage it as a course at school why not promote it in the world of tele?
I know maybe we could vote on who would be the wackiest couple on "Firefly". Sort of "Who Wants to Marry a Space Cowboy?" Then they could go on some spaced out version of "The Springer Show" Wackiness insues. Betcha didn't know you could do worse things to a show then cancel it!(pretty much about the only way I wouldn't watch it)
I vote Mal and Simon. Come on we've all seen the smouldering glances.

Objects in the mirror may be dumber then they appear.

GIRLIE

Thursday, January 9, 2003 6:40 AM

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I mean, I believe I belong to the general public, unfortunately, what I tend to watch in addition to what the general public watches says otherwise. Does that make me somehow peculiar from, say, my wife, who enjoys watching "Friends" and "ER" (which I also enjoy watching, at least ER anyway), but will have nothing to do with "Farscape" or "Firefly?"

I think the mainstream general public is often over shadowed by the more resplendent "cousin marrying" public. Who I believe get to vote twice even though they share a brain.(Please no Florida ballot jokes. That wasn't what I meant.)

I am not a Scifi fan. I am not a fan of any particular genre. I just like good stories. I think I'm reasonably intelligent most of the time(spelling doesn't count right?) so I like any show that isn't predictable or cut from the same formulaic mold.(If it works once basterdize it in as many ways and on as many stations as poss. until no one can even remember what they enjoyed about the original.If it ever was original to begin with.)
My husband enjoyed watching Star Trek Next Generation. Since I had been to young to find any saving grace in Star Trek, I poo-pooed the show. Until I began watching it. I was intrigued by it's thoughtful, subtle morals and it spurred many conversations in our home. Similarly, he watched several seasons of X- files, which in my defense I worked those nights. I would come home see the final five min. and then he would fill me in. Eventually I got to see my first full ep.---"Home". Wow! Needless to say I became a viewer. But I like "West Wing and "CSI" too. I even stop to watch reruns of "I Love Lucy" any chance I can, even if I can name any ep within the first five secs. of finding it. I think "Firefly" has many self proclaimed SciFI fans, But I believe it has many fans like me too. Your wife has missed a good thing and will probably never get the chance to know it. I kind of envy her!
OFF SUBJECT:Does anyone remember how "Wild Wild West" was promoted. That show has been mentioned periodically and I know it defied the laws of mainstream TV westerns. How did they do it?

Objects in the mirror may be dumber then they appear.

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, January 9, 2003 3:39 PM

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Originally posted by Girlie: Ultimatly no network survives without viewers. I think a stronger statement then random rants and even pleasent postcards is turning off your tv. Until networks understand that the public would rather watch nothing then crap they will continue to give us crap.

I agree. And I have. I encourage those of a like mind to do so as well. I am not sure how many here watched Space Above and Beyond years ago on Fox, but they cancelled it at the end of season 1 on a cliff hanger. I called, sent emails, letters, etc, all to no avail. In the end, after the flippant attitude I received from Fox representatives I spoke to on the phone, I quit watching Fox altogether. I did not so much as turn it on until Firefly came on. Now I have quit watching again.

Why doesn't Fox just change their name to the Reality Show Channel? That seems to be where they are heading anyway.

CYBERHICK

Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:38 PM

Hey guys, I got a great idea. If you really want to support the show, why don't you send money to the guy who was making the show. Everyone is sitting around talking about sabotaging Joe Millionaire or doing bad things to Fox or whatever. But if you really want to get the show back on you send the guy who is making it money...

We as the viewers would send out a very powerful statement to FOX or any other network that we are very dedicated to the show.

Frankly, I'm tired of not being able to get any good Sci-Fi shows on TV. Here was Firefly, a great show, and the idiots cancelled it. Hell, Fox has a hard enough time filling their time slots now, which is why you have "Joe Millionaire" on Monday then the same show on Thursday.

Cyber-Hick

Wine and women both have the same problem...
They keep you amused for a little while, then your head hurts.

SERGEANTX

Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:46 PM

Hate to disagree with you, since we're obviously on the same side, but I think the reason you have Joe Millionaire repeated on Monday nights is because the small souled sheep comprising the mass of television viewers show up in droves to gulp done the slop offered.

To my mind, what we need to do, is somehow convince television execs, that a network that fosters a reputation for quality programming will draw a large and loyal audience.... and while it may never be as large as the pulsating hordes drawn to the current crap, it will be an audience comprised of observant intelligent people, people more likely to be well educated and therefore more likely to have the disposable income advertisers lust after.

SergeantX

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

CYBERHICK

Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:12 PM

My refrence to Monday night was that the idiots have put the reruns of Monday night's Joe Millionaire on Thursday too. If they had enough programming wouldn't they just put some other show on Thursday? Well then again they are the idiots that took Firefly of the air.

Cyber-Hick

Smile, it's the second best thing your lips can do...

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:23 PM

I wonder what the ratings were like for last nights "conclusion" to Joe Millionaire? I know after the fans over at the JM FOX site went nuts that the previous week's episode was nothing but a recap show after FOX advertised it was supposed to be the conclusion. FOX even shut down the board there for awhile after people started threatening to boycott the show and FOX. Somehow I think the ratings for last nights show may have been a bit lower than previous weeks. LOL

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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