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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 942957" data-attributes="member: 177">Put our money where our mouths are...I, too, think that the next season will be critical for Enterprise.  But, with it still scheduled to air opposite Smallville, it's probably doomed.  Someone at UPN is either a bonehead, arrogant, or actively seeking to kill Enterprise...Hm.  From what I heard, that's not quite what happened.  Production costs on Farscape went up.  The network no loger felt it would be earning enough profit, and the ratings information seems to bear that out.Now, for my segue... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, you're right.  Someone needs to take a risk.  But we keep thinking it's some network that should do it for us.  Why not do it ourselves?Firefly cost something like $2 million per episode to produce.  If Neilsen detractors are correct, and the ratings undercount genre fans, then perhaps something like 2 million people watched each episode.  If each of those viewers put in $1, you'd have another episode.  If each of those viewers pu in $22, you'd have a season.  If each of those viewers put in $100, there'd be enough money for four such series, plus a summer half-season show like Witchblade!So, let me introduce you to a concept - Two Million Fans Productions.  TMFP is a non-profit organization of fan subscribers.  It goes out, and finds shows like Firefly and Farscape - good programs that don't quite make enough money to survive in the mass market - and offers to pay the production costs. It then turns around, and sells each epsidoe to a network for one single shiny penny. Donate the show, allow the network to keep every dollar of advertising revenue. If the network doesn't have to pay for the show itself, it becomes vastly more profitable to air it. The network gets what it wants (a profitable show), and the fans get what they want (a show to watch). Everybody is happy.Now, let's remember that TMFP has contact information for it's subscribers.  It can ask which shows we'd like produced, and which shows have ceased to be good enough to have our money.  A sort of fan-specific Neilsen system.So, what the genre needs is one wealthy, business-savvy fan willing to cover the original costs to organize, advertise and gather fan subscriptions.  Think of it, for less than the price of one season of Star Trek on DVD, you might be able to have four series for one season on TV!</blockquote>

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