The Fox Network is born. For the most part it sucks dick, major dick. It gets a good genre show like the 'X-Files', 'Firefly', 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles' or 'Fringe'. They moves those shows to Friday night. Those shows die. Everyone hates Fox as usual.
I still argue that you can't judge a show by what night it appears on TV anymore. The way people watch TV programs with their use of computer downloads and DVRs has just changed the whole landscape.
'Fringe' is a perfect show to use to explain my point. It may not have killer ratings for Fox in it's current weekly time slot but it is the MOST DVR'd OR TIVO'd SHOW OUT THERE which all but doubles it's ratings. This means it KILLS it's competition.
However, Fox can't or won't see this because it can't design a business model that will make advertisers happy because most of the DVR or TiVo viewers can zip past the commercials making the show useless to advertisers.
I hope that a cable channel with some weight to it like AMC or SCIFI picks it up. I would love a 'Fringe'/'Stargate Universe'/'Warehouse 13' block to watch on Tuesday night or whatever damn night they chose. All three shows are excellent and would give the science fiction network some street cred for quality (just like AMC gets with 'Mad Men', 'Breaking Bad' and now 'Walking Dead'.) that they lose with their crappy monster movies.
'Fringe' is too good for Fox anyways. They never understood the mystery/space genre. They can keep their sucky 'American Idol' and beat that dead horse into the ground like they are doing with 'Glee'. Fox has NEVER supported a science fiction show in it's history so why start now.
Enjoy 'Fringe' while it lasts my friends.
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The dreaded Friday Night slot killed the original Star Trek. When will they ever learn?
The worse thing is that they KNOW but they just don't CARE.
I'm with you all the way except for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I thought sucked.
The problem with fox is that they don't really offer a way to watch shows that you miss like other networks do. So people may watch their shows, and in a number that advertisers would see, but it's not applicable, because it's not through On Demand or a Hulu or something of that nature.
Actually, "X-Files" went the other way: it started on Friday nights, became sufficiently successful that it got moved to Sundays at 9:00, where it stayed pretty much for the rest of its run. That's what makes FOX's treatment of genre shows ever since so much more befuddling: they gave TXF a chance to develop its audience in the same crappy timeslot that it would later use to kill shows.
Perhaps... And just perhaps... Because Fringe is the most DVR'd show, they're moving it to Fridays because it will never satisfy advertisers. Not that I give the people at FOX credit for good ideas, since they couldn't make Sarah Connor Chronicles, Greg the Bunny, Wonderfalls, or Dark Angel work when they were all awesome shows... But maybe the strategy is to move it to Fridays and keep it there since they will be able to make money back through DVD sales later, and could offer lower prices to advertisers to keep the show afloat a little while longer... Maybe Fringe just isn't a Mon-Thurs show as the way advertisers see it... Let's just try and keep the faith alive and don't write the show off just yet... Stranger things have happened (look at Dollhouse being granted a 2nd season over SCC when SCC had higher ratings than Dollhouse).
Good to hear from you buddy.
'Greg the Bunny' was terrific. Did you see the spin-off series starting everyone's favorite Ape, Warren called of course, 'Warren the Ape?' that was on in the summer?
It's a story about him trying to get back on his feet in Hollywood and the show has Dr. Drew as his drug and rehab doctor and they start each show in an individual session. He has a teen geek assistant who he exploits and he is hated by Seth Green because, of course again, he screwed Green's girlfriend. It was on VH1 and has about 8 episodes. Very funny. Just the depths of his selfishness and how he has no conscience about who he hurts because it's all about him. Reminds me when he peed through the open sun roof of Sarah Silverman's car while drunk.
As for Fringe it has got to survive. I wish people like those who loved 'Lost' would embrace this show. The central mystery is so compelling and interesting. Fringe has a vision and a path and plan in a way I though 'Lost' never succeeded at. I think Lost started as one thing but became something else. The writers got addicted to the attention and wanted to show off their percieved genius as storytellers and to paraphrase Yoda - "That is why they failed."
I did see, and loved Warren the Ape... Was surprised that I actually loved a show on MTV (for the first time in a decade, I believe...).
Best thing to do, is just keep the hope alive on Fringe... Never count out a show, as the networks have been doing rather weird things (such as keeping Dollhouse and canceling SCC even though the latter had better ratings..) and even that weird Jay Leno stunt that was done last year... I figured with his show being canceled, they would have no choice but the keep Heroes on instead of risking THAT many new shows... But alas... No closing chapter for that show... D'OH!! But as I am sure I'm rambling by now... Best thing for fans to do is to keep the word alive and get people interested... I did my part in getting my mom interested in the show last year... hehehe... So anything is possible!! Try and find those Lost/Alias fans and they'll get hooked right away... ;^)
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