The Dealth Slot

POSTED BY: azentropy
UPDATED: Saturday, February 23, 2008 18:01
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AZENTROPY

Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:11 PM

Reference to Joss and Firefly on eonline...

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If you weren't around for, say, The Tragedie of the Firefly Ship, by bard of the globe Joss Whedon, you might not have heard about this thing called the "death slot."

We fans use the term to refer to any and all shows that get scheduled on Friday nights, where they die a slow, sleepy death because everyone's out getting drunk or at least sleeping off the workweek and then receive a eulogy in the trades that sounds like, "Alas, poor show, we hardly knew ye..." It's a veritable tautology of television: If you get the death slot, you die.

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=d93769f7-f
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ECGORDON

Saturday, February 23, 2008 6:01 PM

I think it is the death slot depending on the demographic appeal of the show. If it skews toward older viewers then the networks are willing to accept less than stellar ratings, as is the case for Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs on CBS. I am pretty sure that is why FOX moved The X-Files to Sunday, because it was not getting enough exposure to the targeted audience on Fridays.

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