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06/05/09
Guess I'm still bitter about the cancellation.
Oh, is Heroes still on? I thought after the shitfest that was the season 3 finale, we'd all collectively smartened up and decided to put the show out to pasture.
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04/20/09
Two things:
One, the networks need to stop with the long breaks. They stopped doing it to Lost and 24. It makes sense, especially with a serial type of show.
Two, maybe FOX will have to face the fact that they just can't shove a show onto a new night and expect it to do the same business, especially when that night is Friday and especially when it is a genre show that caters to a younger audience. My guess is that FOX knows just how bad Friday is because they haven't moved Idol there, or at least in recent memory.
In any case, we'll see how the networks change next year, if at all. They seem to have the desire to cling to the old, outdated methods rather than move on.
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04/20/09
putting a continueing drama on a friday night is dooming it on network television. catch an episode miss an episode works better on a day like that not "sorry you missed last friday and now you are lost" show.
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04/20/09
Possibly but the odds probably still aren't good. At very least it doesn't make Terminator look bad by another show in it's slot suddenly getting better ratings. Instead it got about the same. Actually slightly less really.
It mostly shows that the timeslot itself overall is not a great one for getting high viewership.
Like someone said above they might just throw a reality show there since they're generally known to get more viewers these days *sigh*. Or they might just chalk it up to a night where they just won't get great ratings anyway and find something they think will at least do okay to put there. In that case Terminator is at least a known entity. Dollhouse too.
04/20/09
But that is too sensible.
04/20/09
I strongly suspect its low ratings are down to the fact its just come back from a massive-mid-season gap.
In fact, it seems standard now for most shows to have lots of random-gaps in their seasons for long periods.
Imho, this is as much to blame for falling viewernumbers accross the board as everything else.
Dollhouse, Terminator, and PB are all great shows that deserve to have a lot more viewers then they do. At least, *officialy* do anyway.
(oh, and, incidently, Prison Break hasnt had anything to do with prison for quite sometime. (thankfully, 4 seasons of escapeing from somewhere would be very dull indeed)...luckly Lost realised that too)
I strongly suspect its low ratings are down to the fact its just come back from a massive-mid-season gap.
In fact, it seems standard now for most shows to have lots of random-gaps in their seasons for long periods.
Imho, this is as much to blame for falling viewernumbers accross the board as everything else.
Dollhouse, Terminator, and PB are all great shows that deserve to have a lot more viewers then they do. At least, *officialy* do anyway.
(oh, and, incidently, Prison Break hasnt had anything to do with prison for quite sometime. (thankfully, 4 seasons of escapeing from somewhere would be very dull indeed)...luckly Lost realised that too)
04/20/09
In fact, it seems standard now for most shows to have lots of random-gaps in their seasons for long periods."
Excellent point and one I wholeheartedly agree with. Supernatural/Smallville came back for what 2 weeks after a break and now it's stopped again? Bones had a big break came back for a week and is now running twice a week? I live in the UK and that doesn't happen here. A series starts, runs and finishes (barring certain sporting events that can sometimes take priority) UNLESS that series happens to be a US import and then they show it about as much respect as the US networks do.
I get my US TV fix online and it can be quite difficult to make sure I don't miss an episode, I'm sure some people miss one or two because of these season breaks and then just don't bother picking it up again.
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04/20/09
If I may rephrase that...
Drop Idol altogether.... Move back Terminator along with dollhouse to Mondays.
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03/30/09
Face it, fanboys: these shows are just dumb out of the gate even for science fiction fans. Fringe ended for me the moment a lowly FBI agent secured a private plane to travel to Iraq. And Dollhouse is so dumb it's a testament to how much Fox actually likes Whedon that they even agreed to make it. You all moan about his mistreatment, but they keep giving his ideas millions of dollars.
03/30/09
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03/30/09
How many Buffy DVD's do you think have now sold worldwide?
How many America Idol DVDs, in comparison?
I think you find quality drama earns much much more, only its over a longer period.
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03/30/09
And if you think the production cost for a season of Idol is somehow smaller than one for a scripted show, I fear you may find yourself mistaken. Perhaps other, ratings-weak reality shows can get away with shoestring, but stuff like Idol takes MAJOR cash.
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