I was trying not to go there. I think my toes would even be crossed, if they were long enough to do that. I really like this one.
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
USA Today's ratings page lists - for the week of Monday, April 9 to Sunday, April 15 - Drive as the number 5 show among boys 12 to 17. Is that demographic important at all?
Not entirely, but that has levels of humour I suspect.
I've been keeping an eye on the schedule and at the minute it's still listed for Monday. Personally, I think they will keep it for now as they've got to be nervous of a viewer backlash over Yet Another Cancelled Serial Show. But if the ratings fall, it'll get replaced with House, as then they blame people for not watching each week.
I don't think Fox is at all fazed by their reputation for being quick to cancel quality entertainment, since they keep doing it again and again. Hopefully internal support of the show will remain strong and keep it airing until it can build its audience a bit.
Yeah, but it's different this season as basically every new FOX show failed, bar "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" (which launched with American Idol...). Virtually all the serial drama shows on other networks failed, too. FOX risk pissing off their viewers and damaging future shows -- they must be smart enough to know that.
Drive's fate is sealed. It's dead on arrival. Personally I think they will air the remaining episodes (except maybe the finale) so they don't look like they immediately cancel things.
I don'think Fox is at much risk of pissing off many of their viewers. I mean, if not many are watching Drive, who cares?
I don'think Fox is at much risk of pissing off many of their viewers. I mean, if not many are watching Drive, who cares?
FOX risk pissing off their viewers and damaging future shows -- they must be smart enough to know that.
Yeah, FOX doesn't give a rat's ass. Nor does any network.
Their customers, the people who pay them, are the sponsors -- the people who pay a lot of money for commercial time.
We're what they're selling to the sponsors. And if we don't line up in droves to put our eyeballs on the screen in big enough numbers, the networks need to find something that will. That's all that matters to them.
Yeah, somehow I don't think the number of people who swore off ever watching Fox again after Firefly got cancelled are really making a dent in the American Idol audience.
and damaging future shows
Also, while you personally may have the fortitude to never watch another FOX show again, your loss will be offset by the three hundred and seventy five people who talk about never watching another FOX show again but who chicken out, and FOX knows it.
They not afraid of you, and they never will be.
The history of shows that have been saved by fan intervention consists of about three shows, and pretty much every last one of them that got a reprieve was cancelled a season or two later anyway.