Arrested Dev low on ratings

[mojo1701]

Also I remember reading some cast lists for the upcoming episode(s), and a few people that we haven't seen for a while will be back...

[sblock]Justin Lee as Annyong
James Lipton as Warden Stefan Gentles[/sblock].

 

[Desdichado]

My wife loves Arrested Development, but try as I might I can't get into it. The family doesn't strike me as screwed up in amusing ways (a la the now-defunct Titus), but in ways that depress the heck out of me.

Same here. Well, except that my wife doesn't love it (she reserves her T.V. passion for Gilmore Girls... everything else is just filling time.) It doesn't surprise me at all that the ratings are low no matter where it's placed. I think it's one of those kinda "cult things" were people really love it, but not in sufficient numbers to ever make the show a real success.

I don't think Fox has anything to do with that either--I don't know why folks are so eager to condemn Fox for axing or moving marginal shows around in an attempt to increase their overall ratings. I don't get it. That's what they should be doing. Can anyone point to an example where Fox took a genuine hit show and axed it or condemned it to a ghetto time slot? If so, then you can say "stupid Fox." If, on the other hand, all they did was cancel your favorite niche audience geek show, and that got you up in arms...

 

[Dagger75]

Can anyone point to an example where Fox took a genuine hit show and axed it or condemned it to a ghetto time slot? If so, then you can say "stupid Fox." If, on the other hand, all they did was cancel your favorite niche audience geek show, and that got you up in arms...

Firefly, Family Guy, Futurama and John Doe.

 

[Desdichado]

Firefly, Family Guy, Futurama and John Doe.

Do you have ratings data on those shows? To me those are exactly the example of what I was talking about: niche audience geek shows, not genuine hits. They were all cancelled because of low ratings.

 

[mojo1701]

I thought the second-next episode ("Mr. F") was going to be next week. I was so happy when I heard Ron Howard's voice after a commercial had ended!

 

[Fiery James]

I think I might have come closer to death *by laughing* than I have before with MR F.

What an amazing episode. When Tobias comes over the hill in his costume... perfection.

- JB

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The Godzilla noises nearly killed me, that's for sure! I was laughing SO HARD!!!

 

[Dingleberry]

It's a real shame the show doesn't appeal more to the mainstream, because I'd sure love for the expression "MRF" to become part of our cultural lexicon. I know it will in my house.

 

[mojo1701]

It's a real shame the show doesn't appeal more to the mainstream, because I'd sure love for the expression "MRF" to become part of our cultural lexicon. I know it will in my house.

I was talking to my brother last night and called him a "MR M"

 

[Dingleberry]

I was talking to my brother last night and called him a "MR M"

It's just too good to not use.