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.

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.

Jesse and I are sharing a brain this morning. Except hers is working faster.

Woo hoo!

while you personally may have the fortitude to never watch another FOX show again

And since you don't watch them legally, you count for even less than we do.

Woah now. Okay, I'm not saying I won't watch FOX any more. Not that I could in the first place. I'm not throwing my toys out the pram. I understand the commercial realities of network TV a little.

All I'm saying is that viewership of serial drama is likely effected by the number of dramas being cancelled -- as in, people will resist getting in to new serial drama shows when so many fall by the way side, in my opinion. Not in massive numbers, obviously, because shows like Betty and Heroes are proof of that, but each FOX is having less and less success with drama development, and there has to be a reason for that. Or indeed, many reasons.

Myself? Anything interesting comes on TV, I'll watch it.

FOX is having less and less success with drama development, and there has to be a reason for that.

Knowing FOX, they'll probably decide to try airing bear baiting instead.

I'm saying is that viewership of serial drama is likely effected by the number of dramas being cancelled

I'm pretty sure Fox doesn't look at it your way.

Worst comes to worst, why worry over serial dramas anyway? Especially if they're not what earns them advertising dollars as a genre.