Wonderfalls canceled
POSTED BY: trekkerj
UPDATED: Friday, February 25, 2005 22:27
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OMG!!! OMG!!! F*CK YOU FOX!!! This is like my third time saying this! First they cancelled the only show i truly fell in love with: JOHN DOE, then they killed Keen Eddie. They didn't even get Wonderfalls a CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!! HYSTERIA is setting in!
F*ck you FOX!!!
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when was the last time the Simpsons were funny?
Either yesterday, when they had the mildly funny recent reruns, or today, when I missed it and ate dinner. I usually see which episode it is, usually in the first minute or so, and then watch it if it's a good one.
I watched Wonderfalls and enjoyed it, but I missed the last three episodes due to my vast incompetence. The cancellation news is sad, but doesn't have the "The world is bleak and gray" feeling that the Firefly cancelation did, possibly because I hadn't yet grew to love the show and see the characters as real people. While I wish they had played all 13 episodes, I bet cancellation would hurt a lot more if they had.
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I am SO pissed! I was just getting into this show. But, I have to say, I'm not surprised. After all, it wasn't reality TV. Plus, it was witty, intelligent and intriguing. Hmm..a lot like another show that Fox treated like crap! Go figure...
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For people who want to download the episodes.
I posted on another thread a way of downloading Widescreen versions of the four Wonderfalls episodes aired. Here is the link to that thread.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=4598
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Uh-huh. Minear, Whedon and Co, and all of us, need a home. ABC is desperate. UPN even more so. Please, guys! Why FUX? At any rate, I wrote the following to FUX after viewing the first episode of this beautiful, enchanting series:
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Wonderfalls is wonderful!
I fully expect it to go the way of FireFly.
How can a network get it so right with original programming and sports presentation, and yet so utterly wrong with original programming SCHEDULING and sports PRE-GAME shows?
Friday night DEATH slot? Yeah. Brilliant.
And your NFL pre-game is abysmal.
You folks are too tricky by far.
But Wonderfalls, FireFly, and NFL game coverage are positively brilliant.
Your network has become, consequently, true appointment television. I ONLY tune to Fox when you somehow manage to attempt something truly fine, and I tune in like clockwork. Missing my child's birth clockwork. Wonderfalls clockwork. All the while dreading the inevitable, unfathomable cancellation. The inevitable DISappointment television.
Because of this, unless its something as inspirationally beautiful as Wonderfalls, I now avoid your network like the plague.
MASH, the most powerful revenue generator in the history of television, would have been canceled by your brilliant programming department after, what, the third, maybe fourth episode?
Think Programming will ever get a clue? My money says, oh, fuck no.
Regards,
J N Nestor
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Originally posted by trekkerj:
http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=71&post_id=9310
Tim Minear - Apr 3, 2004 5:56:32 pm PST #9310 of 9405
Well, not sure what to tell ya'll -- but we're cancelled. Effective at once. The cow creamer will be silent this Thursday and forever forward. Once we recover from the not-shock, Todd, Bryan and I will see if there's some venue in which to air the remaining episodes. As I have said from the start, the thirteen taken as a whole tell a story and go to a place, so a run of this "limited" series would not be unsatisfying elsewhere. It's a question as to whether the studio will want to invest in a DVD release of a failed series. Maybe the episodes will sit in a warehouse someplace with that sled and the arc of the covenant.
Thanks for all the support and enthusiasm.
Tim
aw man! This bites! 
I love that show!
And once again FOX has screwed the fans over!
FOX, this is for you...
Dragon Lord
Summer: Jane's a girls name
Jayne: Well I ain't no girl! I can prove it!
Simon: I'm trying to picture you more vulgar... but, I can't
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we were very saddened at our house to hear of this latest tv death.
it does boggle the mind to try to understand the fox network. they have 13 episodes. what would be the harm of showing them and letting this show find it's audience? do they really think they have something better that will draw a bigger crowd? we won't be watching.
but we will await the dvd's. i was really looking forward to seeing what jewel would bring to the party.
ol well. i say there always something on tv. i put in my firefly dvd and look there something i want to see on the tv! shiny.
"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
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Originally posted by trekkerj:
http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=71&post_id=9310
Tim Minear - Apr 3, 2004 5:56:32 pm PST #9310 of 9405
Well, not sure what to tell ya'll -- but we're cancelled. Effective at once. The cow creamer will be silent this Thursday and forever forward. Once we recover from the not-shock, Todd, Bryan and I will see if there's some venue in which to air the remaining episodes. As I have said from the start, the thirteen taken as a whole tell a story and go to a place, so a run of this "limited" series would not be unsatisfying elsewhere. It's a question as to whether the studio will want to invest in a DVD release of a failed series. Maybe the episodes will sit in a warehouse someplace with that sled and the arc of the covenant.
Thanks for all the support and enthusiasm.
Tim
My favourite TV critic, Tim Goodman of SFGate.com talked about why Wonderfalls died.
Here's a partial quote and link to the whole article. He starts out by saying that the reason the show died was simple. Fox.
"No, this is more complicated. Start first with a lack of faith in the show at the network. Yes, they liked it. But faith is a different thing entirely. So it came out of the gates after CBS had established its own Joan of Arc-type series, non-ironically titled "Joan of Arcadia" (in "Wonderfalls" the main character, Jaye, was actually going to be named Joan). Even though Fox had its series first, it held back on a fall release and opted instead for midseason, which isn't a bad strategy if three things happen: 1) You put it on a good night, 2) You promote it heavily and accurately reflect the content, and 3) You give it a good lead-in. Fox did none of those things and gave up."
Read the whole article here:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/07/DDGGH60UQK1.DT
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Kinda like what happened with Firefly...only there was NOTHING like it anywhere else on TV.
Gorrammit.
"Take me, sir. Take me hard."
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The only kind of show that could withstand this type of thresing is a reality tv show. It's no wonder that's the type of show that is moving into foxs line up. They have no patience to let anything gain an audiance.
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Normally I don't see conspiracies in show cancellations (as I write it off to 'corporations are dumb'), but I did notice something that struck me as odd -- the Wonderfalls page on the Fox website disappeared within 48 hours of the news breaking. It's not just the link from the main Fox page -- the page itself is gone. When was the last time you saw a corporate website update that quickly?
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