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POSTED BY: JuTin
UPDATED: Thursday, February 16, 2012 20:08
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I am like most of you. I hated FOX when they cancelled Firefly. I bombarded them with angry letters telling them to stop cancelling great shows, just because Firefly had a small fraction of American Idol's ratings.
I eventually realized something, looking at my wall of DVDs, my TV show section is made up of a lot of cancelled TV shows. Firefly, Wonderfalls, Greg The Bunny, Dark Angel and I would love to have Action released on DVD so I can run out and buy it... Aside from Buffy/Angel and Garfield, all of my TV show DVDs are of shows that originally aired on FOX... The Simpsons, Arrested Development, 24 and That 70's Show being the only other DVDs that I haven't mentioned and they are all still on the air and are shown on FOX.
What I realized is this: While FOX cancels many shows that I LOVE SO MUCH... these are shows that FOX took the chance on, shows that FOX put on the air... great original programing being brought to us by FOX... While other networks have Lost (I hate that show, they ain't doin' nuthin') and CSI (man is that a load of steamy crap worthy of two spin-offs) and... what does NBC have? I forget... oh Cheers... anywho, if it weren't for FOX we would have never even seen Firefly or any other show that they took from you. They can't take something you love without being smart enough to bring it to us in the first place.
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Good point.
Still doesn't stop me from hating F*X, though. 
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FOX is a three letter F word.
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FOX didn't create those shows. The writers/creators did. Therefore those shows may have existed without Fox - they just would not have been cancelled prematurely. There are other networks that may have picked them up.
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I used to say this jokingly, but I’m beginning to believe it more and more... I don’t think FOX takes on shows like Firefly with the intention of ever keeping them around for an extended period. FOX has a long history of taking on specific types of shows and then canceling them in the first couple of season. Firefly for one, but also DA and many others. They seem to go for the “cultish” shows, do unbelievably shitty jobs promoting them, and then cancel them when they unsurprisingly don’t do all that well. Firefly replaced DA, they’ve got other shows to replace Firefly. One at a time they pick up these shows and cancel the other. FOX scoops up the copyrights, lets them live just long enough to gain the extremely loyal fan base that such shows do, and then sits back and enjoys large merchandise and other sales which come from their exclusive rights. Shows, like Firefly, with these types of fan bases are opportunities for FOX to gain great profits without having to put much energy into the show itself. I really don’t think FOX gives a rats ass about the shows themselves. If they end up being another super big smash hit like the X-Files, great, otherwise throw them into the rest of the scrap pile. FOX absolutely disgusts me, and I have lost all respect for that company long ago. As Phoebe said, don’t assume just because FOX got the final bid that nobody else would have picked up so many of our beloved shows.
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I hadn't looked at it that way, Interlude, but I agree with you now that I see your point.
I'm a new fan, and sitting watching "Out of Gas" last night, all I could think of was that FOX was foolish.... then I started getting angry, thinking of all the stories we have missed out on!
Then I got more angry!!
Of course FOX is supposed to do things for money, but I think FOX worships money, and I don't think they care who they harm, who they let down, how much they "dumb down" what they present.
"Disgusts" is exactly the right word!
"They tell you never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hilarious." Mal
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Jutin has an excellent point.. and I think I am glad they took the chance on Firefly int he first place or we wouldn't have even the few shows we do...but here is another question..
is it Fox or is it the average public???
are we victims of that lowest common denominator sort of thinking- where society is just getting dumbed down?
Do we REALLY think Fox takes on shows HOPING they will be cancelled sooner rather than later? That doesn't make business sense to me.
Happy to read any explanations...
Chindi
out in the black
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Originally posted by Chindi:
Jutin has an excellent point.. and I think I am glad they took the chance on Firefly int he first place or we wouldn't have even the few shows we do...but here is another question..
is it Fox or is it the average public???
are we victims of that lowest common denominator sort of thinking- where society is just getting dumbed down?
Do we REALLY think Fox takes on shows HOPING they will be cancelled sooner rather than later? That doesn't make business sense to me.
Happy to read any explanations...
Chindi
out in the black
I think that what you're implying is about right. FOX tries out cult-ish shows with unusual premises in the hopes of creating a breakaway hit. If they don't succeed quickly, FOX just moves on.
Basically, they're looking for another X-Files.
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Fox is known for taking chances on crap. I know them as taking chances, getting a great show with tones of potential and then throwing it away
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The article called "$2.00 could have saved Firefly?" makes excellent points about how the ratings are a very old school way to gauge the numbers and that iTunes TV show downloads would be a far more accurate way to see how many viewers are watching... and with just two $2 from all of us Firefly would still be in production and would be commercial free.
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