name five reasons why you hate fox

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CAPTAINCDC

Monday, April 19, 2004 8:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ghola:
While I don't actually hate Fox as I have a hard time hating a television network and I don't want to bother picking 5 things Fox has done badly I'll just post a recent grievance that has nothing to do with reality television or a cancellation.

Normally 24 airs on Tuesday's however the President's speach preempted 24 last week so what does Fox do rather than waiting 1 week to show the episode they air 24 on Sunday night when it's competing with Alias gosh I'm sure those two shows don't have similar audiences. Plus given the nature of 24 if you miss one episode it's hard to watch the next one.

I don't want to defend fox, but if they had just pushed 24 back a week, I think the season finale would have aired one week after may sweeps ended.

As for my five reasons why I hate Fox:
1. Firefly
2. Wonderfalls
3. Family Guy
4. The way they treated (IMO) the two brightest minds in television, Joss Whedon and Tim Minear.
5. If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. Fox never seems to learn from the mistakes they make year after year after year.

These are but a few of the myriad reasons why I hate how the Fox network is run.

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

LTNOWIS

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:09 PM

1. Firefly mismanagement. Cancellation's only fair after all those low ratings, but they really didn't give this show a chance.

2. Dark Angel mismanagement. It's my 2nd favorite show, and it was really good. At least they gave it 2 full seasons and a decent finale.

3. Those stupid filler TV shows they air, like "world's most hilarious wedding outtakes," or "100 things removed from the human body". They could've aired unaired Firefly episodes instead of this crap, or at least late at night so we could tape them.

4. Futurama cancellation. At least we can see the reruns on Cartoonnetwork

5. Fox news. Some reputable site did a study linked to on here, saying that people who watched it were more likely to have false conceptions.

Reality TV shows aren't too enraging, seeing as they're simply good business sense. Fox does push the limit of tastefullness, but not as much as "Fear Factor."

HATEHATEHATEFOX

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:16 PM

Respectfully submitted:

1. Courting a creative person and appearing interested in their product (e.g. FF and most recently WF) and then stabbing them right in the back just before going to air by putting it into the TSoD (aka Fri night)

2. Not giving a show a chance to find its audience. To wit: FF, WF, Keen Eddie, TLG etc

3. Sucking me in once again with WF and then pulling the rug out just as I was getting comfy.

4. Not realizing that UnReality TV has more than used up its 15 minutes. Please, if there's a merciful deity anywhere in the 'verse, please quit beating that dead horse - it ain't gonna go no more!

5. Not letting XF exit elegantly. Oh no, we had watch and watch and watch their tortured death throes. And, WTF was with killing the Lone Gunmen? So now only the pretty people are left.

I hate FX !

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Nothing is ever so profoundly regretted as a kind act.
Robertson Davies

DARKARCHON

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:33 PM

Well, doesn't look like I can come up with much NOT already said. I agree with most of you about cancellations and 'reality' TV. I remember when FOX was the new kid and made it by showing edgy, unconventional shows...but now they are 'leading' the pack and we all know where they are heading (land of mindless drones). Funny how that works.

I will say this about FOX news...with the qualifier that I abhore politics and there are NO trully unbiased news networks ANYWHERE...they are probably the least politically aligned.

"Be careful when staring into the darkness, that you do not become what you see."

EST120

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:50 PM

They showed maybe four episodes (over a six-week period) before ABC switched to 24/7 coverage of the War on Terror(tm).

i like how you trademarked that phrase.

SAMURAIX47

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LtNOWIS:
5. Fox news. Some reputable site did a study linked to on here, saying that people who watched it were more likely to have false conceptions.

I don't think that it was Fox News in particular but the whole Broadcast news as a source of daily news that people get, that those people have false or misconceptions about news events.

For people who read the newspapers or listen to radio for news, not so much.

I get my news when I drive to and from work listening to a local talk radio station.

Jaymes

CALJEDDAH

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:42 PM

I for one do not HATE FOX, but I do have issues with their decision making.

1) 'Reality' Shows, which are nothing even close to reality. (Reality is boring, we all live in reality. This goes double for other people's 'Reality')

2) The idea that FOX executives know what is 'more likely' to grab the viewers than the creators of the show. Like the music industry, heads so far up their @$$ they can almost see daylight again.

3,4,5) See reason number 1

Cal Jeddah

"Is it bad that what she said makes perfect sense to me?"
Mal

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:36 PM

5 reasons:

1.) My big fat obnoxious fiancee
2.) The Littlest Groom
3.) Oliver Bean
4.) John Doe (this kind of has something firefly related, i'm just ticked off that John Doe outlasted it!)
5.) their newscast LOVED the war in iraq

"Did I hear something about black market beagles? They have smallish droppings."

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:31 PM

1) Firefly

2) Firefly

3) Firefly

4) Firefly

5) Firefly

"Why're we still talkin' about this?"
~ Mal

Anything after that is giving gorram fox more attention than they deserve.

Stop capitalizing their name, people. They don't deserve that kind of respect either.

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
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SOUTHERNSLAYER

Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:42 AM

What?! Only five?!

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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