'Tru Calling' finale cancelled: Fox sucks big time AGAIN!

POSTED BY: GWEK
UPDATED: Monday, May 16, 2005 16:41
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HONORBOUND

Monday, April 25, 2005 2:26 AM

Yet again, it leaves me nervous and saddened for Tim and Adam to have to work with F*X again this fall on "The Insider". Lots of potential for that show to take off... which means it will be off the air by Christmas.

A kind word turneth away wrath, but not as well as superior firepower

NITEFALLS

Monday, April 25, 2005 3:40 PM

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Never watching another show on Fox, they had more than one chance to redeem themselves.

I agree. I won't watch FOX anymore. At least not until they make some good progress with keeping good shows and--here's a radical idea--canning the crappy ones.

As always and in general, nitefalls

WHOISRIVER

Monday, April 25, 2005 4:35 PM

The problem is, of course, the shows we consider crappy are the ones the mass population are watching. Which tells you something about your average TV viewer.

Junk food TV is far more appealing than TV which makes you think.

BIKISDAD

Monday, May 16, 2005 1:49 PM

Unfortunately, I think you may be right. The average television viewer, based solely on which shows "rate" highly, seems to be a complete idiot with a very short attention span. I think part of the problem might be that many of the more intelligent potential viewers long ago gave up on tv as an entertainment medium. So the networks, for the most part, don't even attempt to cater to them (us).

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

MYSWORD

Monday, May 16, 2005 2:40 PM

Looks like Fox is the new WB, lousy shows in place of good shows and cancellations of old favorites. UPN in th eonly station I trust soley because of ONE count it ONE reality show( screw that britany whatever her last name is now, show). V. Mars is all I have left. Too angry and disappointed in the lineups for the fall of other networks cause if I watch them and likke them, they will be yanked.

Later Days

PATSRULE

Monday, May 16, 2005 4:41 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
This from the people who cancelled John Doe and left off at one hell of a cliff hanger for the season ( read also SERIES ) finale.

According to ZAPTOIT.com:

FOX Entertainment President Gail Berman offered up the story Thursday (July 17) following her Q-and-A session at the TV Critics Association press tour. The series, which starred Dominic Purcell as a man who knew everything about the world but not his own identity, built a fairly complex mythology over last season but not a big enough audience to be renewed.

Central to the story was a question of who or what Doe was. Popular assumptions included that the was some kind of cyborg or alien or a man who had been subjected to some sort of government experiment.

None of those are true, according to Berman, who discussed "Doe's" underlying premise with creators Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson. She says Doe was just a regular guy. Now, here comes the big revelation:

"[According to the show], when you're very close to death, when you're seeing the white light, God or a higher being gives you all the information of life to carry on to the next life," Berman says. Doe was about to die, but for whatever reason -- Berman didn't say why Thursday -- he lived after being imparted with that knowledge.

The shadowy people who were after Doe knew what happened to him and were trying to keep him from discovering it himself, Berman says.

Berman's after-the-fact revelation came in response to questions from a couple of critics about how FOX has handled on-the-bubble series that have significant story arcs. In the case of "John Doe," the network couldn't give the producers a definite answer on a second season when production wrapped because it wasn't sure how its pilot development for the coming season would end up.

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