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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1465831" data-attributes="member: 8704">Me and a friend watched the first episode of Wonderfalls, and hated it. We spent the next hour talking about how goofy it was. Just my opinion there, it just wasn't the type of show I would watch. As far as cancelling it goes, giving it only 4 episodes was just pathetic. I don't care what the ratings were showing you got to give a show a actual chance. Fox shows come and go so fast that a lot of times by the time word of mouth gets around that I should try it out it's already gone. Firefly is a good example, I heard it was pretty good and decided to give it a chance, unfortuantly it was already gone by the time I found out it even existed. Family Guy is another one of Fox's goofs, they cancelled it twice now and have now picked it up again. It took it being on a stable timeslot on Cartoon Network and huge DVD sales to convince them it wasn't the shows fault the ratings were poor it was their fault for moving it around and not advertising it enough. You can make the ratings tank for a show if you want them to just like you can pick better timeslots and push a show harder and ensure it will get better ratings, there is more to it than "nobody was watching it". Advertising, lead in show, competition on other networks and word of mouth buzz all have a lot to do with how a show does. If you judge just on ratings alone Family Guy shouldn't be getting a third chance on Fox now, it didn't do good ratings for them (funny it did amazing ratings for Cartoon Network though). There are lots of variables that go in to how a show does.</blockquote>

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