Didn't it get roughly the same viewers that BSG did, except they considered BSG a success because it was on cable instead of network?
Genre shows can't survive on network. Execs don't watch or understand it, geeks don't watch it on TV they wait and download it or watch it online and that doesn't work for advertisers. A good rating for SyFy is the pits for Fox. Maybe at some point producers will stop trying to pitch their shows to networks and "settle" for putting a show on a cable network for as long as they can manage.
Remember folks, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a syndicated show, not a network feature, and so was DS9. There's a damn good reason those series went on forever, and a damn good reason Voyager was on UPN and still sucked and the same goes for Enterprise. Genre shows just don't work on networks and the ones that do are very very lucky and special. (x-files is the only quality exception and I think even today if x-files was fighting for ratings right now they'd lose to online/dvr viewers).
Warner's tried to resurrect oldtime geek series Babylon 5 in DVD format and failed.
End of Show is actually wrong on this front. The B5 DVD did well and Warner was pleased. But they offered creator J. Michael Straczynski a cosmically low budget for making more DVD movies. He regretfully passed.
But End of Show is right on point. It's a great idea to continue TSCC on DVD. Unfortunately Warner is very tight-fisted and I can't see how TSCC could be produced on the budgets they are offering for these projects.
They apparently don't believe enough in this market to risk any money. And because they don't believe in it, they have no data to show they should change their minds.
SyFy needs to step up and pick the series up. They can tie in the marketing to the buzz over Terminator Salvation, since by the time the Salvation is released on DVD the third season will be ready.
But SyFy will probably just make more Flash Gordon crap instead.
Pope John Peeps II says: Your link is to a silly idea that isn't much like this idea at all. Besides which your blog is tiresome and boring, and you said it best by calling End of Show more "professional". Maybe you could take a clue from that. You're just mad that nobody is paying attention to you. Apparently just like on Consumerist. Well, once they ban you from here you'll be batting 1000.
The only allegiance I show FOX is 24... when that show is over, FOX and me are over. (And I time-shift it anyway, so no commercials - screw you FOX advertisers!)
These canceled shows are a mixed blessing for us viewers, though - viewers are already hesitant to "invest" in new shows and I think we're really going to start seeing revenues drop for the big carriers like FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC as more and more viewers start leaving specific channels and not coming back. I watch nothing - ZERO - on CBS - I get my episodes of "The Unit" online - screw commercials. The downside is, of course, that if enough people do the same, "The Unit" will go away... but I don't care - I'm not giving these FOX bozos any more of my attention and I hope they all end up writing screenplays for off-Broadway shows.
I wanna give up watching fox altogether now, partly as some ill-thought out revenge, and partly because any series ran by them i may enjoy will be canceled just when i can love it properly...
but i'm still watchin dexter :( it may have to be a noble sacrifice..
bah, dont think they give a fuck about uk ratings anyway
@tralfaz23: I think the big summer movie is exactly why this is being cancelled. Fox pays a licensing fee for the Terminator IP. With the big summer movie coming out, I bet those licensing fees just went way up. That would make this show more expensive than before.
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Didn't it get roughly the same viewers that BSG did, except they considered BSG a success because it was on cable instead of network?
Genre shows can't survive on network. Execs don't watch or understand it, geeks don't watch it on TV they wait and download it or watch it online and that doesn't work for advertisers. A good rating for SyFy is the pits for Fox. Maybe at some point producers will stop trying to pitch their shows to networks and "settle" for putting a show on a cable network for as long as they can manage.
Remember folks, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a syndicated show, not a network feature, and so was DS9. There's a damn good reason those series went on forever, and a damn good reason Voyager was on UPN and still sucked and the same goes for Enterprise. Genre shows just don't work on networks and the ones that do are very very lucky and special. (x-files is the only quality exception and I think even today if x-files was fighting for ratings right now they'd lose to online/dvr viewers).
05/18/09
Great idea, but SyWhy doesn't do that anymore. They don't want to pay any money to anyone for anything. It's sad!!
05/18/09
Hmm. That MGM sure likes their DVD movies like Stargate...
05/18/09
End of Show is actually wrong on this front. The B5 DVD did well and Warner was pleased. But they offered creator J. Michael Straczynski a cosmically low budget for making more DVD movies. He regretfully passed.
But End of Show is right on point. It's a great idea to continue TSCC on DVD. Unfortunately Warner is very tight-fisted and I can't see how TSCC could be produced on the budgets they are offering for these projects.
They apparently don't believe enough in this market to risk any money. And because they don't believe in it, they have no data to show they should change their minds.
05/18/09
But SyFy will probably just make more Flash Gordon crap instead.
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--Kyle
05/18/09
Pope John Peeps II says: Your link is to a silly idea that isn't much like this idea at all. Besides which your blog is tiresome and boring, and you said it best by calling End of Show more "professional". Maybe you could take a clue from that. You're just mad that nobody is paying attention to you. Apparently just like on Consumerist. Well, once they ban you from here you'll be batting 1000.
-Pope John Peeps II
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I also want to see her play a villain on Chuck so she can fight Casey.
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Idiots.
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These canceled shows are a mixed blessing for us viewers, though - viewers are already hesitant to "invest" in new shows and I think we're really going to start seeing revenues drop for the big carriers like FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC as more and more viewers start leaving specific channels and not coming back. I watch nothing - ZERO - on CBS - I get my episodes of "The Unit" online - screw commercials. The downside is, of course, that if enough people do the same, "The Unit" will go away... but I don't care - I'm not giving these FOX bozos any more of my attention and I hope they all end up writing screenplays for off-Broadway shows.
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but i'm still watchin dexter :( it may have to be a noble sacrifice..
bah, dont think they give a fuck about uk ratings anyway
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