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VINTERDRAKEN

Monday, April 24, 2006 3:56 AM

Very very good point.
To good in fact, I liked hating FOX for cancelling all my favourite shows

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

SIGMANUNKI

Monday, April 24, 2006 4:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JuTin:

Arrested Development

and they are all still on the air and are shown on FOX.

They got cancelled.

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JUTIN

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:06 AM

yep... another truly sad day for the television landscape... and such a hilarious show too

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WASHME

Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:57 PM

they generally cancel all their best shows.

I mean come one, who's idea was it originally to cancel Family Guy and Futurama???????

And Dark Angel, and Titus, and The Tick....the list goes on with those guys

Ah, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

TRAVELER

Saturday, July 1, 2006 10:26 PM

I am just happy someone mentioned Wonderfalls. I thought I was alone in discovering this masterpiece. I actually laughed out load while watching Wonderfalls, I haven't done that since the early Simsons. But this just another example of a network not supporting its own programing. I do not remember seeing any promotion for Firefly. Did I just miss it or did they just throw it on the air without any support. I don't remember seeing any promotion for Wonderfalls as well. But is FOX alone. Are the other networks as bad. I enjoyed the Guardian and it just disolved into network archives. Remember the first Star Trek was cancelled in the middle of its third season and soon after they had Trekies. Did I spell that right? Now we have more legions watching Firefly then rebels had fighting the Alliance. So the wheel turns. Fifteen episodes are better than none. Do you here about people watching Star Trek the Next Generation on DVD for the tenth time? Well maybe you have, but you discovered a small gem that FOX threw away and you picked it up. That is good. Who knows what other gems are out there or where they may be found. So you can continue hating FOX or start enjoying the gem you found.

NAFLM

Sunday, July 2, 2006 4:44 AM

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
And even though they're axing ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, they at least gave it 2 1/2 years for it to flourish, as opposed to a few weeks.

Well, I think that depends on how you look at it. I remember looking at the Fox website for Arrested Development sometime during the second season and it had not been updated since the first season. (No mention of the second season, mentions of award nominations but none for actual awards won.) As for the third season, I can't speak for every area but at least in this area I don't recall seeing any advertising for it. (I do recall seeing commercials for reruns of King of the Hill airing at midnight, but that may be a local affiliate thing.) And you can't expect to gain an audience when you air two episodes and then bump it for three - four weeks. That's not what I call allowing it to flourish. (David Cross has a great diatribe about Fox's handling of the show on one of the DVD's blooper reels.) The only commercial I remember seeing for Firefly was when they aired the original pilot, and that was the last one that they showed. (Cleared up some confursion for me though. I had read a favourable review of the Serenity pilot in a local paper before the show started, then saw "The Train Job" and didn't see any of the references that the author had made.)

Fox has a habit of setting up a show to fail and then saying "we gave it a shot". As soon as I found out that episodes of Arrested Development would be bumped for football I was sure it would be cancelled. When they reduced the number of episodes I knew that it had been "unofficially" cancelled.

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Originally posted by STILLFREE:
Why oh why doesn't another network like USA or Sci-fi Channel pick up more episodes.

Has Fox been showing any interest in giving up the rights? Once before I've heard that they didn't start "serious" bargaining with other networks until very late, when the other networks had already allocated most of their budget for the season, and then insisted on amounts that the other networks couldn't afford. This way they can again say that they "tried", rather than just refusing to sell the rights. I don't think any exec would want to let it go and see it be successful on another network. How do you then go to your boss and justify having cancelled the show in the first place?

Gah, sorry, that's a lot longer than I had intended. Rant off, I'm going to bed.

JUTIN77

Sunday, July 2, 2006 8:58 PM

Absolutely, they really screwed around with such a great show. It was killing me. The season started and then nothing for a month and then two episodes and nothing for two more weeks and then two more episodes and then nothing until February when they showed four brand new extremely well written episodes... the greatest thing in my opinon was those two hours.

KAYNA

Sunday, July 2, 2006 10:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by V:
Fox Executive: We want a show from you, you did Buffy, and people loved it.

Joss: Ok, lemme get back to you on that...

Six months later

Joss: Here's a pilot for my new show, it's called "Firefly"

Fox Executive: *Brief pause* Uh...we have no idea how to sell this...

Joss: What are you saying? You wanted a show!

Fox Executive: Yeah...but this is hard to sell to people, not enough action happening, uh...do another pilot, we'll air this one later.

Joss: But that's the pilot to the whole series!

Fox Executive: Listen, do you wear the suit? Do you decide what shows go on the air? Let us do our job.

Annnnnd Scene.

That pretty much what happened. FOX didn't pick up Firefly because they wanted to give a shot to sometyhing new and different. They wanted something else from Joss. They were probably hoping for a Buffy clone. It was not what they were expecting or what they wanted so even though they took it, they also f***ed it over.

And since we're metioning other good shows cancelled by FOX I have to mention Titus. I thought that was a hilarious show. While three seasons is more than most of the other canceled shows folks have mentioned had, it's still not very long.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

ODDSBODSKINS

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 8:38 PM

i can never remember, is Fox that odious wee shite rupert murdoch's american enterprise, or are they odious entirely of their own accord?

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Saturday, July 8, 2006 11:05 PM

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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
Yes, let the hate flow through you. Your anger toward fox will give you strength. Give in to your rage and you shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. Strike fox down and your journey shall be complete. Although before you wage your mad crusade against the fox empire you should make sure you have medical insurance and update your will so that you’ll be prepared when the fox security guards tackle you and break your spine.

"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam

*fox execs enter the room*

exec 1: what are you guys talking about, no one hates FOX

exec 2: yeah we gave your lousy firefly a chance so what are you griping about?

me: you cancelled an excellent show after running it out of order

me: *sends tendrils of Force lightening at the execs*

execs: *screams, and then they fall down, dead, their Firefly killing bodies still steaming*

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