Why does any TV show I actually like get canceled?

POSTED BY: Geni
UPDATED: Monday, July 31, 2006 16:11
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STICK

Friday, June 9, 2006 4:28 PM

TV exec shows are always quick to cancel any shows deemed 'original' and 'Sci-fi' because they don't fit into a "formula for success". I guess Firefly was doomed before the first episode was ever made. If you really think about it you can classify 90% of all shows on tv into roughly 3 categories; sitcom, drama, or game show. I don't count 'reality' since imho reality tv is just drama with a generally lower budget and the actors are 'real' people :rollseyes:

Anything that doesn't fit into these categories usually gets shoved into crappy time slots where no one will watch it, and later cancelled.

"Once you've been to serenity you never leave... you just learn to live there"

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 9, 2006 7:29 PM

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Has nobody mentioned The Others?

I only ever caught on episode, hard to judge from that. It caught my interest but I couldn't find out when it was on.

GENI

Friday, June 9, 2006 10:06 PM

Thanks to all for the Very Shiny Welcomes! Much appreciated.

You know, I swear I think the problem was Fox. All I ever hear from TV execs is whining about how they just don't hear any good ideas for shows - but what they really want is CHEAP SH*T. Reality shows are perfect, because the people on them are willing to whore themselves for FREE - you don't have to pay them like actors. They'll make up their own tawdry sordid little stories, you don't have to pay writers. They'll perform the most appalling acts on camera, and you don't have to pay directors.

Well, screw 'em, I say. Let's keep up the pressure and get more movies made. Look what it did for Star Trek - it may not have brought back the original series (in retrospect, I have to say thank the gods for that, but at the time, I was pretty pissed about that one too - and yes, I am that old). But it did bring about what, four offshoot series, seven movies, 8 billion crappy books and a few good ones, and tens of millions of conventions?

I watch very little TV, because 99% of TV is utter undiluted CRAP - and then when you do find a quality show with decent acting, an original premise, good writing - they kill it.

We already made our first two converts - we converted both of my stepsons wholesale, just by quoting a couple of Jayne's lines to them! (They're both very much Jayne types.)

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 9, 2006 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by Geni:
I watch very little TV, because 99% of TV is utter undiluted CRAP - and then when you do find a quality show with decent acting, an original premise, good writing - they kill it.

Just remember not to be so afraid of losing something you don't have it in the first place. If you see something good enjoy it while you can.

RCAT

Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:01 AM

Yea, seems no one's quite gotten over loosing the show (both those who watched on f*x and newcomers). The fact the BDM (Big Damn Movie) got made gives some hope for the future, though.

I agree w/ most of the lost shows mentioned above...John Doe, was another I wanted to see more of. W/ tv being the modern opiate, shows that make people think or have to pay too much attention to don't seem to last (hard to forget the world if you have to process the information you receive). Shows like Lost and the X-files seem to be the exception. I think timing is the key to a lot of it, only a couple of clever, quality shows seem to be able to exist at the same time.

Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel 'verse. But you took that end, and you - well, you took it. And that's - Well, I guess that's somethin'.
-Jayne

MONKSDAD

Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:11 AM

I will apologize in advance to any fans of the shows house, and numbers. I now like these shows and because of this they will be promptly canceled. Other shows i have ruined for the masses were firefly, Arrested development, Deadwood, titus, married with children, two guys and a girl, TV 101, clerks cartoon, hockey. again i apologize to everyone for what i have done, just never cross a voodoo woman is all i am saying.

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

SCRUFFYHANSOLO

Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by Geni:
Thanks for the welcome! I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who became immediately near-obsessive about this Firefly universe.

...and I can't be the only person who did a full-on slapstick spit-take when Jayne said, "That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth" in Our Mrs. Reynolds.

...and that perfect little pause with everyone staring at Jayne and not saying what everyone was obviously thinking..."then where...never mind!"

first of all you say near obsessive and i have to correct ya most of us are far beyond obsessive and moved to compulsive. also i have to agree with the posts that say you must have good taste since i find myself in the same boat. i think about 2 shows i start watching per year get cancelled. so i have decided this year in order to save show from being cancelled not to start watching any new shows. ok that's not true i just don't have the time to watch any new stuff.

i am wondering if there is anyone out there with the same twisted sense of humor as me is is sad that Starved got cancelled?

))<>((

SCRUFFYHANSOLO

Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:31 AM

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Has nobody mentioned The Others?

And we've already established that I was the only person on Earth who watched Veritas: The Quest

na i watched Veritas and the show after Miracles it which ran one episode longer. it was right around the sept 11 and iraq war stuff started and i thought oh they may be back when tv returns to normal. alas i was wrong.

you know i miight as well give my list of tears:
Firefly
Sledgehammer
The Flash
Titus
Lucky
Starved
Veritas
Miracles
Invisible Man
Wonderfalls
Dead Like Me
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
Carnivale
Jack of All Trades
Cleopatra 2525
The Tick

i am sure there are others that have been forgotten over the years as tears and anguish but these are the remembered. let them rest in peace.

))<>((

CALHOUN

Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:16 PM

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monksdad wrote:
Saturday, June 10, 2006 00:11
I will apologize in advance to any fans of the shows house, and numbers. I now like these shows and because of this they will be promptly canceled. Other shows i have ruined for the masses were firefly, Arrested development, Deadwood,

So you're responsible! !! I loved Deadwood.

I was reading somewhere that Deadwood was costing around 5 million dollars an episode... and it got 3 seasons why the hell couldnt Firefly have found another network after Fox screwed us....

CALHOUN

Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:22 PM

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ScruffyHanSolo wrote:
Saturday, June 10, 2006 01:31

you know i miight as well give my list of tears:
Firefly
Sledgehammer

I used to love that Sledgehammer when I was younger... "Trust me, I know what i'm doing" muahaha he was a classic. It was silly but it made me laugh. like the episode where Hammer hires a video called target practice or something like that and gets home puts it on his Tv and its a picture of a target and a voice saying shoot me shoot me, so he pulls out his magnum and blows the Tv apart... hahah.. u probably had to be there.. I was smoking drugs back in those days too so quite possibly it wasnt as good as I thought.

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