Firefly Revival Confirmed

soviet · 2026-03-15T21:18:07+0000

Parmandur said:
Whedon's career in Hollywood is extremely over. He's never getting involved with a show or film again. Look up why if you wish.

I heard the allegations. I don't really care about them. Either do the show with him or don't do it.

Ryujin · 2026-03-15T21:20:30+0000

GreyLord said:
It may be worth it in streaming. If it were to go on TV I'd expect it to flop for the same reasons the movie didn't do so well. It was very well loved...by a small devoted following. Because it's run was so short (and during it's run, got shafted and so it's time spot was constantly moved or superseded) it didn't really gain much of the general audiences. Without that big of an audience, even though the small audience it had was fiercely loyal and loving it, the movie just didn't have the appeal to the general audiences other movies had.

It's been even longer since the movie and the show now. That devoted audience has shrunk. I think it may do okay on streaming (not netflix at least, on netflix it would be cancelled after the first block of shows dropped), but I'm not going to expect great numbers.

The TV show suffered from the typical Fox actions, when they want to kill something, like shifting it around the schedule. Since then it has gained a large following of people who didn't see it the first time around. The "Once We Were Spacemen" podcast has been getting anything from a couple of dozen to a couple of thousand likes, on its Instagram posts. This announcement just hit over a half a million.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-15T21:25:44+0000

Belen said:
If Disney involved, then I am worried we get 10-20 minutes shorts.

Yeah, it's weird that Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: Starfighter are both 10 minute vertical videos.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-15T21:27:11+0000

Kaodi said:
How do you work around a series creator when the original show was so short?

You pretty quickly create more content than he ever did and move beyond his shadow.

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T21:36:45+0000

soviet said:
I heard the allegations. I don't really care about them. Either do the show with him or don't do it.

Nobody really cares if you personally care. He's not working on anything ever again.

soviet · 2026-03-15T21:47:59+0000

Sure whatever Parmandur

Artamo · 2026-03-15T22:24:24+0000

Unfortunately Whedon wasn’t the only problem on Firefly when it came to toxic people.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-15T22:34:44+0000

Artamo said:
Unfortunately Whedon wasn’t the only problem on Firefly when it came to toxic people.

Yeah, sort of surprised to see him back in the cast. I assume he will be recording alone.

GreyLord · 2026-03-16T01:20:45+0000

Ryujin said:
The TV show suffered from the typical Fox actions, when they want to kill something, like shifting it around the schedule. Since then it has gained a large following of people who didn't see it the first time around. The "Once We Were Spacemen" podcast has been getting anything from a couple of dozen to a couple of thousand likes, on its Instagram posts. This announcement just hit over a half a million.

As I mentioned, it has a loyal and highly devoted following, but when you need at least 4 to 6 million for a successful show, and preferred 10 to 20 million to be considered for renewals...even half a million likes on social media isn't what I would say makes a successful network show.

I mentioned it may be enough for streaming, but not for a mainstream show on TV due to the same reasons the movie had problems with audience.

I could be wrong, but I think this revival will be a streaming thing, probably for the lesser Disney streaming service of Hulu because it needs a boost. It's not big enough for Disney+ main itself, but as the Hulu portion of it does not seem to be performing as well, it could be a prime show to boost some veiwership on that portion of Disney's holdings.