Jason Seaver
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I'd guess June or July, if I had to guess. Airing Thursdays at 9 after back-to-back episodes of The Grubbs.
Fox has tremendous leverage because its UPN affiliates account for about 20% of the network and include UPN's top three markets, including New York's Channel 9.
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One option for Fox is to replace UPN with movies and other shows from the vast Fox Entertainment empire, though some said the Fox stations would be sunk without UPN.
but everybody knows if they'd just thrown most of their money into making it look more gadgety-sci-fi-ish, it'd woulda raked in ratings.But the real question is... would it have been worth watching if they had?
I suppose if Firefly had been given a better start like Fastlane, it'd have done numbers like this on average...But Fastlane got pre-empted by baseball more than Firefly, and we all know that one week with the Division Series killed Firefly!
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And FOX will hopefully present them in their original production order...As long as all the episodes were included, I wouldn't give a shit... I could order them properly myself. I must agree with you though; this show NEEDS a DVD release.
If you were in charge of programming at FOX what would you do?If I were in charge I would've aired the pilot Serenity first and would have promoted it more. What's done is done and there's no way to know how much it would have helped but I'm convinced it would have made a difference. Either way I know we haven't seen the last of Firefly. It will fly again!
If you were in charge of programming at FOX what would you do?I would never have picked up Firefly to begin with. I love the show to death, but there's no way that FOX could ever have been happy with it's ratings, given it's cost. They obviously hoped it would be the next X-Files, but I contend that they had no hope of that ever happening. If it had survived the year, it would have been marginally, and there would be no way it would survive past a second year. Where's the profitability in that?
I also think JW took a big chance, against the odds, going with FOX, and would have been better spent waiting until after Buffy and Angel were finished (plus a year or two) before introducing Firefly, on some other smaller network, with a smaller budget. Who knows, the cost and quality of CG might change enough in the next few years such that it wouldn't have been as expensive to shoot.
But that's just my opinion. I'm no Jason Seaver!
Martin.
I think it's just what America wants mostly. Fast stories, no characterization, explosions. If you have the first and last, with interesting characters and an actually good script... it's usually hated for some reason.
I think it's attention spans.Actually, I think it might be that Firefly was arguably overcomplicated. I mean, it started out with 9 characters, a nebulous continuing storyline going on in the background, and a lead (presuming Nathan Fillion was supposed to be the lead) who was overshadowed by the other, more colorful/interesting characters, and who sort of faded to the background during the macrostory-intensive episodes.
I mean, compare it to John Doe or Fastlane. Each of those has three or four characters, a fairly straightforward premise, and if you miss an episode or two early on, you're OK. They're not nearly as demanding early on as Firefly was.