Originally posted by: deespence2929
If the show is boring it could also hurt the box office too. The last terminator movie was released 5 years ago. If this show is their most recent memory of the series and it's a bad impression they could lose interest in seeing the movie. Also, most agree that cancelling Star Trek : TNG improved box office for star trek generations. In the long run the movies will probably bring in more money than a tv show. There are at least 3 more movies planned I believe.

Except that, at least here, you're the only one that finds the show to be boring. Having an average of 9.9 million viewers isn't bad. In fact, it's not that different from at least a few other shows like Prison Break and Bones. I know of only one show (not a reality program either) that has been an instant success in recent history and that's Heroes. Even 24 started out with less than 9 million viewers, but picked up another 2 million in its second season.

I think people agree with that about Star Trek simply because by cancelling TNG, Paramount could dump all the money for effects into a movie instead of putting it into the TV show and a movie. Not only that, but did you watch TNG after Season 5? It got horribly bad. It needed to be cancelled so the franchise could move forward. Of course, it looks like it's going to take a "reboot" in order to resurrect the franchise at this point.

In the long run, I can easily see the Terminator TV show getting better and getting more people to the box office. T4 just needs to be better than T3 was. That shouldn't be hard to do since T3 largely sucked.