Ooooo New interview by Joss the Boss
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Fastlane is now being aired on, of all places, G4 now (repeats only). You know, the station prodominently about video games? That seems like a good place to put a hip-hop car/cop show, right? Right? RIGHT?
FOX has a huge problem of not look at the whole picture. For example, take Futurama. Funny show. Great show. For sure good enough to still be running. They blindly switched time slots for it over and over until it got placed in a location where it got bumped for football over and over. The ratings started to REALLY drop and FOX must think the show is slipping in popularity. No you dingles!!! It's because when you only air the show once a month and give it ZERO commerical time, people can't find it and watch it. So they can it. But wait, what's this? On channels like TBS and Cartoon Network, it is pulling in the highest ratings of any show on the network? DVD sales are incredible? Folks are in the streets BEGGING for the show to be put back on the air? Nah, can't be. FOX is never wrong...
It just kills me...
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Originally posted by seryn:
not going for the 'ravening obsessives' angle as so many others have done.
We are in fact raving obsessives, that's what beeing a supporter is all about
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"You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice." 
Yup, that's the problem, not enough sex on Firefly, and too much intelligent and quality TV between the sex.
I wonder if Fox is slightly embarrassed about all this. You know, let's can all these quality shows that people love (after we've screwed with them) because they're not making money. Couple years later, they're pulling in millions of dollars in DVD sales and huge ratings through syndication, and one of them's even spawned a movie. Huh, I wonder if we did something wrong? Maybe we should bring some of them back.
DO YA THINK???
Oops, sorry. I'm a little angered at the Fox people.
"Sir, you actually said 'wink, wink'. I don't think that -"
"Oh, you'd be surprised."
"Yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates."
"YAY!"
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Originally posted by Causal:
Hold the line, Browncoats!
Aye aye!
Great interview, by the way. Wheton is the kind of guy I could really get to like; he seems like the type that I'd like to just buy a beer and sit and talk to him.
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Speaking of badmouthing fox and how they cancel all kinda good shows...Refer to the first ep of season 4 of Family Guy in the very begining Peter lists all of the shows Fox has cancelled (firefly is in there) and each one has some story about how Fox pretty much neglected it (well some of them were just bad...that 80's show...? ouch.). Anyway yeah I thought I'd throw that out there so that you could see Fox's track record...
-Dan
Ain't that just shiny?
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Originally posted by DanielFyre:
Speaking of badmouthing fox and how they cancel all kinda good shows...Refer to the first ep of season 4 of Family Guy in the very begining Peter lists all of the shows Fox has cancelled (firefly is in there) and each one has some story about how Fox pretty much neglected it (well some of them were just bad...that 80's show...? ouch.). Anyway yeah I thought I'd throw that out there so that you could see Fox's track record...
-Dan
Ain't that just shiny?
Hehe, yeah, I saw that ep too. "Well, if they cancel ALL these shows . . ." and then the list starts. I kept expecting it to end any second, but it just went on and on . . . I mean, I knew they cancelled a bunch of shows, but I didn't think it was that many. And in the space of what, 2-3 years? Sheesh. Well, that's Fox for ya.
"Sir, you actually said 'wink, wink'. I don't think that -"
"Oh, you'd be surprised."
"Yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates."
"YAY!"
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Originally posted by violetrix:
i think it had some chick from 90210 in it.
Now THERE'S some quality programming!
Let's take a chick from that tripe that's 90210 and put her on a show that is Fast and Furious for tv. Fast cars and hot women sell...right? Well obviously, since that "golden boy" show lasted soooooooo incredibly, uh...short!!!!
And I ask, where are the fans for that show? What would you call them? Grease Monkeys? Speedsters? Speed Monkeys? I know that G4 has a forum space, but I haven't seen proof of a site that is dedicated to that as we are to Firefly. They don't even have the series on DVD. There are some selling on ebay, but those are pirated. Not much information out there other than IMDB and G4 when it comes to that show.
Golden boy indeed
Psolaris
"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"
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Refer to the first ep of season 4 of Family Guy in the very begining Peter lists all of the shows Fox has cancelled (firefly is in there) and each one has some story about how Fox pretty much neglected it
Can anyone come up with this list? I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see it.
Unfortunately I never watched the Family guy, nor did I buy their DVDs.
Gelassenheit means Serenity
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Took me a little while, but I found it!!
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Peter: Everybody I've got bad news. We've been cancelled.
Lois: Oh no Peter! How could they do that?
Peter: Well unfortuantely Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just gotta accept the fact that FOX has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonder Falls, Fast Lane, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Skin, Girl's Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda At Large, Costello, The Lone Gunman, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddy, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, And Greg The Bunny....
Lois: Is there no hope?
Peter: Well I suppose if ALL those shows go down the tubes we might have a shot.
Psolaris
"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"
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Grrr...
FOX cancelled The Tick. Had to go and remind me, didn't you? 
Look on the bright side. Firefly got even more episodes filmed than The Tick did... Another DVD set I love.
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