Joss Post On Cancellation
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 00:26
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Saw this on the official website:
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Message from Joss on the Phoenix Board:
joss - Dec 13, 2002 7:49:36 am EST #7717 of 7737 Mark
Kiba owes me her life.
Four AM. Can't sleep. Who'd have thought?
There's a couple of things I'd like to say. And a few things I really can't. First of all, I'm prouder of this show and the people I worked with on it than I can express in words, monkey noises, or hyroglyphics. I believe this has been some fairly great TV. And the experience of making it... I've had crew members who've been working for 20 years say they've never worked around such excitement, support and love. You walk on that set, you're transported. The cast: 9 count 'em 9 incredibly talented actors who are all decent, wonderful people. This phenomenon cannot be explained by science.
Second of all, don't think for a second that I have given up on this show. I think it has been mistreated shamefully, but the Fox network has indicated that they would not stand in the way (which they can) of my finding a new home for the show. That's no easy prospect. But I will do everything in my power, as always, to keep this bird in the air. Of course I'll post if there's any news.
But even if the show goes back up elsewhere, I'm going to lose a good portion of my crew. Production will halt, they'll need to find new jobs. You can't imagine how that feels. How much they brought to the table, how hard and well they worked. And their Christmas bonus is this. As much as the cast, the staff, and my not so secret lover Minear, I honor those guys, and hope to get them back on board.
So for now, I proudly take my place beside Profit, The Ben Stiller Show, the Tick, and Action. But I won't rest until I've found safe harbour (no, not the Gregory Harrison show) for this vessel.
I've got the time.
It ain't like I'm sleeping.
-joss.
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link: http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=13&post_id=7711
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It's nice to hear honesty, and it's also nice to hear that Joss isn't going up. Plus it's nice to hear that Fox will let him look around.
Maybe there's hope yet.
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"How will this end?"
"In fire."
--Babylon 5, 'The Coming of Shadows'
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Joss: We got your back. Just tell us where we should be aiming our cannons!
I have a strong feeling Firefly will live beyond Fox. On another network? on Cable? in Syndication? Somehow this show will survive. It's a shame the production chemistry may suffer, but that's no obstacle.
Firefly's guaranteed base audience of 3.5 to 4 million is nothing to sneeze at... (most new shows have no such guarantee) and these numbers are from here in the U.S. alone. Intelligent American shows often do much better abroad than they do here at home.
I sure hope Fox doesn't interfere with the DVD possibilities. The possibility of a Firefly S.1 DVD set increases the longer the show runs elsewhere.
Be prepared to become very proactive and not just wish for things to happen.
mattro
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A response on that bbx said it quite well: FF doesn't march with the zeitgeist of the times, it's not goose-stepping.
One of the problems is that we're all depending on("to depend": to hang from) corporate TV to make non-corporate decisions. How effing likely is THAT? Aren't there non-corporate means of communication? What about subscriber downloads or something? Then FF and Farscape and some of the other great cancelled shows wouldn't have to hang from the corporate teat anymore.
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ahhh wouldn't it be wonderful if firefly got picked up by UPN or WB or what ever then like four years from now FOX picks it up for syndication. I guess i can only dream. :)
hook
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Originally posted by hook:
ahhh wouldn't it be wonderful if firefly got picked up by UPN or WB or what ever then like four years from now FOX picks it up for syndication.
National networks don't pick shows up for syndication, local affiliates do; hence the word "syndication." It is possible that a syndicated show will air on the WB in Detroit but on CBS in Dallas. The local stations also choose the time slots.
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Originally posted by hook:
ahhh wouldn't it be wonderful if firefly got picked up by UPN or WB or what ever then like four years from now FOX picks it up for syndication.
National networks don't pick shows up for syndication, local affiliates do; hence the word "syndication." It is possible that a syndicated show will air on the WB in Detroit but on CBS in Dallas. The local stations also choose the time slots.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. But this bags the question are there any shows that do this as thier only outlet. I know shows like simpsons and the 70's show are syndicated but they are only old episodes. Is there any president of a show being purely sydicated with no "home" network to air new episodes?
hook
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Originally posted by hook:
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. But this bags the question are there any shows that do this as thier only outlet. I know shows like simpsons and the 70's show are syndicated but they are only old episodes. Is there any president of a show being purely sydicated with no "home" network to air new episodes?
Wasn't Star Trek: The Next Generation a syndicated-only show?
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Originally posted by lelak:
Wasn't Star Trek: The Next Generation a syndicated-only show?
I thought TNG was a FOX show.
But I know there have been syndicated-only series. Most of those cheesy action series (e.g. Xena, Mutant X) that always come on at odd times of the weekend? Those are all syndicated.
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TNG, DS9, Hercules, Xena, Beastmaster, Earth:Final Conflict, Andromeda, Mutant X, etc. are all first run syndicated shows. That market was fairly good in the late 80s and early 90s because there were a lot of independent stations, unaffiliated with a network, that needed programming and liked an alternative to reruns of network shows and old movies. Many of those stations became UPN or WB affiliates, however, so there is much less demand for good original syndicated dramatic programming.
When you see a syndicated show at, say, 7 pm or 11:30 pm on your FOX affiliate, this doesn't mean that it's a part of the FOX network programming but that it has been bought by that local station to fill in the hours when FOX doesn't provide network programming.
Cardie
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