Wonderfalls canceled
POSTED BY: trekkerj
UPDATED: Friday, February 25, 2005 22:27
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Originally posted by Hardware:
Actually I am going to watch Fox again. I will be watching their most popular shows to compile a list of all the advertisers so I can write to them deploring the fact that they are advertising on Fox. I will inform them that since they choose to advertise on Fox I will choose to not purchase their products and I will encourage my friends and acquaintances to also not purchase their products.
Hit 'em in the wallet. TV executives have a very rudimentary nervous system. You have to hit them where it hurts to get their attention.
The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.
Don't forget to post that list for us here!
See, not to say I told you so...then again I just did.
This is why I could not bring myself to watch it. I could not stand this pain again. To all of you who were better people than me and still had hope for this ‘verse: my truly deepest condolences.
F*X will NEVER again grace my TV screen. I am training all I come across with electro shock therapy that F*X=BAD
fuck you f*x Just keep diggin' your self an even bigger hole in that special hell+++++++++++++EDIT+++++++++++++++++++++
WOW!!! Tash your right! There was a person who answered the phone!! *Gets creeped out by the lack of automated voice answering service*
I called for you brave Wonderfalls souls. Hope it helped.
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'Hahaha! Mine is an evil laugh!'
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*Manually having to hold jaw off floor*
Wow. An actual person, who picked up on like the 2nd ring. Who was friendly and helpful. At a toll free number.
This was about to break my entire world view, until I realized that I was calling 20th Century Fox, not FoxTV. Now it just needs a severe realignment.
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I can't believe this. Why must every show I love get cancelled? It's weird, I watched two of the episodes I missed on Friday night (#2 and #4) and was thinking about how much I loved Wonderfalls and how maybe I could begin to forgive Fox. Apparently not.
Stupid, mind-reading morons.
Now how am I going to nurture the massive crush I have on the hot bartender?
Bring on the DVDs!!!!!!
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What a kick to the gorramn balls. Finally, another good show came along, and it's fucking gone after four fucking episodes. MOTHERFUCKER!!!
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It's sickening how comforting the privacy of the mind can be.
"Bible's broken; contradictions, false logistics. Doesn't make sense." - River
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1)3.4
2)2.6
3)2.3
4)2.1
fuck the tv viewing public.
tru calling 3.5
wonderfalls 2.1
fuck tru calling fans for not sticking around to watch.
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Once again, I suggest the actors & crew sue Fox TV for failing to present a show properly. Does anyone know if there's a clause in the typical contract that prevents this? Could not a class-action lawsuit, possibly involving the viewers as well, override any such clauses?
Also, how come all you folks who promised to never watch Fox after they screwed up Firefly are STILL watching it? Didn't you learn the first time? Yes, I was tempted to sign up for Wonderfalls from the comments here, but...it was on Fox.
Someone noted on this thread that actions like this by Fox will cause a major change in the way TV shows are produced and presented in the future. Nielson ratings seem to be worthless. There IS a market for quality TV. Does anyone really prefer "The Help" to "Firefly"?
Only by revolt (class-action lawsuit) will any changes be made. Anyone else angry?
......Ruxton
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I was expecting Wonderfall's to be cancelled from the start but I'd really hoped that they would have showed more than 4 episodes. I'm hoping they'll show the remaining 9 episodes on FX or some other cable network because at this point while I enjoyed the show I didn't enjoy it enough to buy the DVD's. I won't be boycotting Fox as I don't have a nielsen ratings box so it won't make any difference but the only show I watch on Fox is 24 anyway.
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bummer. any chance that Bravo (or someplace like it) might pick it up and air all the episodes like they did for Keen Eddie? at least somebody would get the chance to see them
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So, once again, we see that the FOX execs are incapable of seeing the ACTUAL reality out there. They pile "reality TV" on us by the pitchforkful, but haven't the slightest clue what people want to see happen. They take a brilliant show like Firefly and doom it to death in the same approximate conditions that killed Star Trek 30 some-odd years ago. I never watched Wonderfall, but I've heard nothing but HIGH praise for it. And so, naturally, FOX dooms it to death in the proven kill zone on Friday nights.
In the words of Jayne, "It don't make no sense..."
Folks, I think I'm done with them. I know I'm not alone.
Here's my idea.
Never mind writing to save a show, never mind writing to get a show onto DVD.
Let's all buy a post card, and each of us get 10 other people (or more if you can!), and we all simply write "I solemnly vow never to watch the FOX network or any FOX affiliates again."
No ultimatums, so begging, no suggestions, no asking to bring something back, no conditions, no cojoling to make changes.
We're done. End of it all. Never to watch their network again, nothing they can do will change it (unless they pretty much fire EVERYBODy and bring in a whole new team of execs and writers and producers and designers and who the F
K am I kidding?)
This is a call to arms.
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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne
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I have a theory about Fox TV Network. As many people know, they tend to be very... politically conservative. Right Wing. Bordering on Facists. They make Ronald Reagan look like the Women's Lib President. OK, so I've showed my hand here. I'm sorry if I offend anyone who isn't as obviously bleeding-heart as I am. I have no bone to pick with most conservative individuals-- just the ones who make me look like a centrist by comparison. (Believe me, I'm no centrist!)
Tim-and-Joss tend to make very creative, out-there (dare I characterize it as left-wing?) kind of stuff. I have thought all along, first with Firefly and now with Wonderfalls (this really cements it for me) that the feeling among Fox TV Execs is that good TV with any kind of a liberal bias is dangerous to the Fox TV Machine, which is dedicated to taking us back to a simpler time when men were men and women couldn't wear pants in public.
I think this was completely political. I think the good reviews garnered by Wonderfalls only *increased the speed* with which Fox pulled the plug, because they increased the chances it might get watched by somebody. Fox doesn't want any show to air, anywhere, that might make liberals or lesbians or companions or independent people look good or feel good about themselves. So they buy up first-rate, cutting edge ideas, gain legal control over the material, and sabotage it so it can never hope to be successful, so it can never be aired by anybody else, so it can never compete with their cheap programming crap or cause the world to open up and be a little less fearful of People Who Are Different.
Or, as I put it when I sent the bad news to my mom, FOX SUCKS!!!!!
There is no such thing as a weed.
Unless it's a good show trying to grow on Fox, that is.
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