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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1465636" data-attributes="member: 5171">Gosh, DMScott, really?  Shows whose ratings go down consistently eventually get cancelled?  Please, explain more.  I said I was bummed.  I didn't say that I was a weeping fanboy unaware of the ways in which television shows live or die, so drop the tinfoil hat garbage.  It's abrasive and rude.I would posit respectfully and less snarkily than the above lines might imply that there is a difference between establishing a season of consistent bad ratings, or, heck, 13 episodes of same, and making the same conclusion after getting four data points with which to work -- especially when you've moved the show so that it airs opposite the two most popular shows on television (informal, based on what I flipped through on an Entertainment link -- Apprentice and CSI) for its final week.You are utterly right in that they are axing reality shows as well.  I was implying a general trend, not a complete and utter destruction of scripted television in favor of reality shows.  The question of critical acclaim might be worth bringing up -- I'm not sure how much it's worth in the network boardrooms these days, and I'm not sure how much it should be worth, but the critics were all in love with Wonderfalls, and it didn't get anything thrown its way.  It got a lousy timeslot, then another lousy timeslot, and it was never in a protected space with a great lead-in.  Its advertising was minimal.  I'm not saying that a show that tanks in the ratings over and over again should stay just because I like it.  Heck, with the way Fox handled things, yeah, Wonderfalls wasn't going anywhere, and probably wasn't going to, barring amazing word-of-mouth improvement.  But your implication that our irritation is purely tinfoil-hatted ranting is disingenuous.  The lads at Fox know how to protect the shows they like -- or, if they don't, they're idiots, and they need to learn from the big-boy networks.  Wonderfalls was obviously not high on their list of things to protect.  I personally disagree with that, but others are free to defend it as a valid choice.  That's purely subjective (although, again, critical acclaim, etc.).  What isn't subjective is the fact that it was not given the "let's make it succeed" treatment that other shows have gotten, in terms of time/day placement, lead-in power, protection from overwhelming oppositition on other network, marketing, or time to grow.Unfortunately, Rodrigo, you're right, in that, while the FX element was minimal and the show looked relatively cheap to produce for a scripted show, it was nowhere near as inexpensive as a reality show -- and thus, had higher ratings standards to maintain.  If a reality show brought in Wonderfalls' numbers, Fox wouldn't be crowing, and they might be eyeing cancellation, but I doubt they'd immediately yank it, since the cost to revenue ratio is better (with reality shows being cheaper to produce).Also for the record: I don't love Tru Calling, and I don't feel a driving need to watch it unless someone tells me it's gotten closer to the kind of show I like next season, but that doesn't mean I'm unhappy that it's still on the air.  Complaining that Fox axed one SF show and not another is silly.  I'm glad that SF is on the air.  I'm glad it's doing well enough to get picked up.  I hope it leads them to try more SF shows next season, and I'm sure that its success was part of the reason they decided to go ahead with Wonderfalls in the first place.</blockquote>

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