Wonderfalls canceled
POSTED BY: trekkerj
UPDATED: Friday, February 25, 2005 22:27
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Quote:The only TV viewers we should be fucking have Nielsen boxes. Where are they?
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I've never said Fuck Fox in any post on this board or any other, but you are the one who said fuck the tv viewers, so I was just giving you a little bit of your own medicine.
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Well, I never saw an episode of Wonderfalls...or even heard of it. But if Whedon fans, brilliant people who love his brilliant shows, love this show so much,it must be good. So, for the sake of making myself feel better about Fox cancelling another show I can tell was good... kehem...
FOX GO FUCK YOURSELVES UP THE ANUS!!
there we go
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Well, no matter what, Fox is one network I won't be watching much of anytime soon. Hell, I used to enjoy Boston Public too. That show was a success for Fox, and they've treated it like a waste of time and money, when it's really an intelligent piece of television.
So, I guess if a show is going to succeed on Fox, it has to be trash.
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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I only got to see the second and fourth (now final) episode. But they were great. I'll miss the show, and what was almost Fox's night of girls who hear voices.
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Well, not to go into a politics debate, but if you think about it, Firefly seemed pretty damn conservative to me - the bad guys are the "interfering" federal (universal?) govt, and the good guys want no part of them in their lives - our heroes seem much more right-wing than left.
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A sudden, but inevitable, betrayal.
The best thing FOX could have done was leave WONDERFALLS on Fridays at 9:00, hoping to attract JOAN OF ARC viewers from CBS (or whatever network it's on). The two shows were tres similar -- perhaps a little too similar, but that's another discussion.
But here's the shiny side: Tim is now freed up to work on the Firefly movie, and here's hoping he does.
As for boycotting FOX, I promise to only watch the Simpsons, and that's it. Sorry, just can't do without my Simpsons fix. FOX sucks. They're most successful program ever, The Simpsons, has made them millions, yet they won't pay the voice talent decent money. They failed to support Firefly, Wonderfalls, and Futurama, then cited poor ratings as the reason for killing them. Buncha gorram jerks.
FOX makes me 
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Now I don’t know about Futurama, but Wonderfalls was getting some pretty bad ratings. If you were a TV station and a show you put on air was getting crappy ratings, what would you do? Most stations don’t put tons of money into these shows just because they’re smart and entertaining, they want money. If one of the shows you were paying for got crappy ratings on the pilot and then the rating just continued to drop, well then that show doesn’t appear to be a good investment. They don’t have any reason to keep paying. True, some of the shows that got bad ratings in the beginning continued on because of the fan base and got a movie, (yay for us), or the show was able to come back on as a series but I believe that only a few out of dozens or hundreds or…a really… big number.
I don’t like any of this because Wonderfalls was quickly becoming a favorite of mine, but that’s how it is. I agree with Bamadave, for Wonderfalls to succeed, more fans would have had to watch. And it can’t all be blamed on fans with Nielsen boxes, (as much as I‘d like to have a concrete person or company to blame it all on). If more fans, with Nielsen box or without, had watched, the word would have gotten out. People talk about TV at work, at school, in chat rooms, etc. Those Nielsen box folks would have heard about it, and come on, we all know it was great, they would have loved it like the rest of us.
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Aristotle
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Anger, remorse,and surprise....not really. Fox has been a Fairweather friend to too many shows. Firefly was poorly advertised and tinkered with but they were at least able to begin to develope their plot. This is a travisty, taking a show of the air after 4 episodes makes me sick. Even crappy sitcoms get 5 episodes. When will they learn they are disavoying their public.
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You know, I have had a bad weekend. So I come to FFF.net to get a little cheering up, and this is what I have to put up with. Brilliant. Thanks Fox.
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I don't mean to kick Tim when he's down but WTF was he thinking? Why would he sell WF to FOX after their dealings with FF?
I agree with Tim that WF being cancelled is the biggest non-shock of the tv season. As soon as I heard that WF was coming to FOX I could see the red shirt from a mile away.
Which is not to say that I didn't watch it - I did.
Which is not to say that I didn't hope some miraculous deus ex machina event might save it - I did that too.
Well, creative people just need to NOT NOT NOT sell their projects to that sucking, gaping, pus filled hole that is FOX.
Sure does make me glad I cancelled my cable.
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