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05/18/09
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.
05/18/09
--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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05/18/09
I also want to see her play a villain on Chuck so she can fight Casey.
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I'm guessing.
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03/03/09
Yay! Yay!
03/03/09
Other than the DVR fee that the cable company is collecting, the DVR crowd is not generating any revenue. No ads = sad network CFO.
Isn't it all about ratings being down causing less ad revenue, or am I missing something here?
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03/03/09
Train Job is NOT one of my favorite Firefly eps. It does give you a good idea of what Cap'n Reynolds and company are capable of and in what direction their moral compass points, but... rescheduling it to be the first episode, BAD NETWORK, BAD!
03/03/09
Honestly, any sort of break that separates the "seven pilots" from the actual arc story is welcome.
@Harrison_Bergeron:
I can't say the same here. I didn't dig Firefly until I saw the original pilot and rewatched the series.
03/03/09
In fact I can tell you the EXACT moment I fell in love with the show.
remember when all of Niska's henchmen were tied up and Mal was trying to give back the money? Then krull got up and gave the "last thing you will ever see is my blade" speech?
Alot of my friends thought they were setting up that seasons big bad. That this guy would show up and occasionally make all sorts of wacky and hilarious trouble for our guys.
Then he got kicked into the jet engine.
And at that moment Joss made a fan for life.
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02/27/09
It's not "TGIF" anymore. More like, "Friday: Where Shows Go to Die."
They should just run movies on Fridays, like they use to (back in the olden days). It can't cost as much as funding original programming, and if the ratings suck, get a different movie.
02/27/09