Who actually cancelled Firefly ? And theTRAIN JOB as the pilot.
POSTED BY: BrownBug
UPDATED: Friday, April 13, 2007 19:19
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So, you want to know WHO exactly cancelled Firefly. Frankly I'm surprised no has given you the correct answer yet, I thought it was more commonly known.
Well, here's a name you can remember, Sandy Grushow. He's was chairman of the Fox Television Entertainment Group from 1999 to 2004, he is the man responsible for Firefly's demise.
He didn't like the show from the very start, not understanding why there were 'horses', but no 'aliens' in a science fiction show.
It was he who made that great decision to NOT show the 2hr pilot Serenity, (even though it had cost $10 million to produce) and ordered a 45 minute reworking of it, ie, The Train Job.
He accepted the Train Job as a replacement but non of the following episodes where shown in their correct order, nor was it promoted in any real fashion, and it was moved about to various time slots so it was almost luck if you managed to catch it.
Gail Berman should also bare some responsibility for it's cancellation. She was the executive producer of Buffy and Angel, yet I believe she did little or nothing to sway any of Gushow's dumb decisions in Whedons favour. I don't think she and Whedon have spoken since.
I'm sure there are more detailed accounts of the show being cancelled, but they are the basics of it.
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