Ziz said:lordjedi said:PSYCHO_DAYV said:RIGHT NOW THERE IS RUMOR THAT FOX WAS CANCEL THE SHOW DUE TO LACKLUSTER RATINGS. THEY ARE AFRAID THAT THE SHOW IS ALSO PULLING DOWN THE RATING FOR PRISON BREAK. THE FACT IS EVERY FOX SHOW HAS BEEN DOWN IN THE RATING FOR THE MOST PART. FOX WILL FIRST TRY TO SHUFFLE THEIR SHOW SCHEDULES BEFORE CANCELING TSCC. OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST RUMOR.
Yeah, they'll probably try to shuffle it and then hope it fails. Unfortunately for them, in an age of TiVo and DVR's, it doesn't matter the date and time that the show airs, it'll still get watched.
Fox just doesn't seem to like Sci-Fi shows.
Problem is the networks and Nielsens don't see it that way. They want to know that you're watching the show WHEN THEY TELL YOU to watch it. You're not allowed to have a life when the TV is off, remember?
As far as they know, I am watching it when they want me to watch it. If my DVR is on and recording, they can't tell the difference if I'm sitting there or not. I don't have a Tivo, I have a DVR from the cable company. Tivo is the only one that actually reports your viewing habits (because it records your viewing habits as well). And that's exactly why "low ratings" won't really be a valid excuse if they do shuffle it around.
C3PX said:lordjedi said:Yeah, they'll probably try to shuffle it and then hope it fails. Unfortunately for them, in an age of TiVo and DVR's, it doesn't matter the date and time that the show airs, it'll still get watched.
Fox just doesn't seem to like Sci-Fi shows.
I wonder how shows like Family Guy (during its first run), Futurama (again, during its initial run), and Firefly (the one that was unfortunate enough not to get a second chance like the previous two I mentioned) would have faired against Fox's death warrants had they all aired in the age of DVR and Tivo. I know the Nelson's ratings wouldn't have looked any better, but surely more people would have watched and given an uproar when cancellation was announced.
FireFly failed for one reason: they aired the episodes out of order. I was at Comic-Con that year and got to see a preview of the pilot episode. When I sat down to watch the show during the season opener, I couldn't figure out exactly what was going on. What they had done was aired, I think, the second episode first. They didn't even air the pilot episode until 4 episodes later. Joss Whedon later stated that Fox simply didn't want a Sci-Fi show at the time, hence the reason for airing it out of order and then cancelling it. Since Fox owns the rights to "FireFly" the movie was called "Serenity".
I don't watch the other shows, so I can't comment on them.
skyjedi2005 said:Fox are morons they cancelled futurama because it was not the simpsons in outer space, and they cancelled Space Above and Beyond because it was not Star Wars for tv that they wanted. X-files should have been canceled after the first few seasons.
X-Files was the only decent Sci-Fi show Fox had on for a while. What should not have been done is the extension of X-Files after season 5. Chris Carter had a 5 season arc for the show. After that finished, he wanted to end it. Fox wouldn't let him. They demanded he write more. That's when the show got hokey and shitty. It basically went on 3 seasons longer than it should have, all because Fox had a hit that they didn't want to let go of.
The opposite was done with Babylon 5. JMS had a 5 season arc written before the show started production. They got half way through season 4 when they got put on hiatus, so they had to wrap everything up quickly. But then they got picked up again and had to make up a bunch of stuff as filler.
The point of all of this is that network executives are stupid.