The Firefly Effect

POSTED BY: FlyinFree
UPDATED: Saturday, January 10, 2004 03:26
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HERO

Friday, January 9, 2004 5:31 PM

I was reading the article about FOX's top TV guy "quiting" his job. It raised the following point:

"While insiders speculate on the "real" reasons for the move (after all, why would a 20-year veteran of executive suites quit a high-profile gig overseeing both the programming of the Fox network and the company's TV production unit to hang his own shingle as one of many producers trying to come up with a hit show?), Fox has not yet named a successor."

The answer is Firefly. DVD comes out, suddenly it is clear to FOX executives just what their man is doing. And he's gone.

My only hope is that his new venture fails and a couple years from now he winds up cold, starving and alone on the streets of LA starring longingly through a store window at a TV playing the new Firefly series, number one in the ratings for the second season in a row.

And he's wearing a ragged, brown coat.

H

CAPTAINCDC

Friday, January 9, 2004 5:59 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Gail Berman was the one responsible for giving the ax to firefly. Regardless, they all need to lose their jobs. All networks cancel good shows from time to time and keep horrible shows all the time, but Fox has the worst track record.

FOX

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:04 PM

Hero wrote:

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My only hope is that his new venture fails and a couple years from now he winds up cold, starving and alone on the streets of LA starring longingly through a store window at a TV playing the new Firefly series, number one in the ratings for the second season in a row.

And he's wearing a ragged, brown coat.

LOL!!!

Not so sure this guy is one of the hatchetmen, but if he was, I could think of no more fitting punishment.

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

GEEZER

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:29 PM

My wife and I bought the DVD for each other for Christmas. When I took the spare back to Borders to exchange, the clerk grabbed it for herself. Said she'd been trying for weeks to get a copy.

FIREFLY68MTL

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:41 PM

FOX as always been terrible with with the programming of their shows. It's hard to image that they never cancel The Simpsons afterall these years.

About 7 years ago they put the kill the tv series Earth Above & Beyond. That show was different and much better than many other scifi shows of that time.

WHOODAHN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:11 AM

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And he's wearing a ragged, brown coat.

I love your ironic sense of humor.

TEELABROWN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:24 AM

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Just lend 'em the first DVD...then when they come around beggin' for the rest of the DVDs, tell 'em to go buy a set of their own!

Yeah, great idea!

. Mwahaha.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

TEELABROWN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:26 AM

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And he's wearing a ragged, brown coat.

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I love your ironic sense of humor.

Ironic humor is the best type of humor. Supposedly. It certainly is cruelest.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

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