Night Stalker...got Stalked.

[Crothian]

By that measure, Croth, why get upset about anything? Someone beats you up and robs you? That's reality, man. Your car explodes and kills your girlfriend? Reality, baby.

Because a TV show and a persons well being is exactly thee same thing. :\

What the heck does "reality" have to do with wanting somethng to be different?

Becasue in all the cases of a TV show getting canceled have pretty concrete reasons. Now, like it or not a TV show is not the end of the world. I was just presenting the opposite point to trancejeremy, I wouldn't get to wrapped up in it.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Personally, I think most TV execs need to be drug out into the street and shot.

They've got a great track record for making sure I never watch TV. Every time I do, there's a 70% chance or so that what I'm watching for will get axed.

Fox is especially bad about killing things off on purpose. They seem to have alot of dissention in the ranks, and the broad in charge of scheduling doesn't share my tastes. They always put something interesting up against the most popular piece of drivel on the planet.

I also think all mainstream reality TV shows need to be carpet bombed, but that's me. I'm violent like that. We now watch the small specialty channels much more than major broadcast networks ... the wife likes stuff like HGTV, Style, and we both like some of the interesting stuff on Food Network (like Good Eats and Iron Chef). I used to like TechTV, but then some genius decided to kill it and turn it into G4, which, by all accounts, is now tanking compared to TechTV (though they weren't running TechTV tight enough yet to make money). Now, I think, they're fighting trying to decide if G4 is going to turn BACK into TechTV (with shows like Call For Help) or if it's going to turn into The More Juvenile Spike TV (with The Man Show and constant reruns of Hot Chicks Reading Cheat Codes).

--fje

 

[Tharian]

At least it got a longer run than some FOX shows, which disappear after only one episode (or even less!).

I'm still waiting for the show that gets cancelled during the commercial that appears right after the opening credits.

It would be interesting to see a totally new show come back on after the commercial break.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'm still waiting for the show that gets cancelled during the commercial that appears right after the opening credits.

It would be interesting to see a totally new show come back on after the commercial break.

I've been googleing because I could swear that's come close to happening at least once. I'm pretty sure I've heard of one series being cancelled before the first episode was finished airing but I can't find the reference. I do know that 'You're in the Picture', Jackie Gleason's game show attempt after The Honeymooners, was cancelled after one episode and Gleason spent the time slot next week apologizing to the audience.

 

[Fast Learner]

Because a TV show and a persons well being is exactly thee same thing. :\

They're on a continuum. Stub your toe, that sucks. Child dies of leukemia, that's devastating. Your favorite show cancelled? Yeah, way closer to stubbed toe, but that doesn't mean you're wrong for being disappointed or upset.

 

[Wycen]

It was up against my game night, so it certainly lost.

 

[satori01]

Funny thing there is a reason why shows like Supernatural are put up against things like CSI. The network knows it is not going to win the ratings battle, but figures they can capture a substantial share of the potential viewing audience that is not intrested in CSI.

In this case it did not work out.

The comment about Fox made me laugh, Fox TV has a relatively high turnover rate in terms of Execs, so often a TV show is pencilied in for a season, and is too far along in production,(and contracts), to be stopped AFTER the Exec championing it has left.
I know two different people who have had that happen to them this year.

Ok a couple of what will probably be controversial points:

Farscape killed itself. That web editorial by the ex SCI FI network
exec was pretty spot on. Too many characters, too much turnover, to arcane of a plot. I missed a season, (due to SCI Fi constant shuffling, bad on Sci FI) and was going "who the hell are these people". Mini- series was great, If Farscape had gone that route, momentum would still be there.

Firefly is a creation of the DVD. I watched Firefly when it was on TV, I liked Firefly, when I saw it, just that liked. On DVD everyone who sees it LOVES IT. Everyone I have leant the DVD to
(which is almost everyone I know, hell I would lend them to strangers), experiences the same sleep deprivation because they cant stop watching. Firefly was meant to be watched without commerical interruptions, and with no extraneous interruptions.

Blocks of Sci Fi shows seems to be the best course of action. I always bemoaned that Sci Fi shows seemed to be scheduled to play on Friday nights, when people are going out. One show no matter how good will keep people from not going out, at least every now and then.

The Gigantic SCi Fi fest on now during Friday nights, the Stargates, and Battlestar, are a strong argument for me to reschedule events. Of course I have Tivo, so a moot point for me

 

[TwistedBishop]

I've been googleing because I could swear that's come close to happening at least once. I'm pretty sure I've heard of one series being cancelled before the first episode was finished airing but I can't find the reference.

That would be Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_Naughtiest_Home_Videos

 

[Aaron L]

I've pretty much stopped watching TV because everything I like gets cancelled. Especially the Sci-Fi Channel. The Invisible Man? Gone. Farscape? Dead.


All I watch now is Justice League Unlimited, and it hasnt been on for a few weeks now.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Next year...

I've pretty much stopped watching TV because everything I like gets cancelled. Especially the Sci-Fi Channel. The Invisible Man? Gone. Farscape? Dead.


All I watch now is Justice League Unlimited, and it hasnt been on for a few weeks now.