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> Fox has set up numerous shows for failure Seems like a dubious claim to me, since it's not in their interest. My guess is that since the most coveted timeslo
by sho_hn 10y ago
> Fox has set up numerous shows for failure
Seems like a dubious claim to me, since it's not in their interest. My guess is that since the most coveted timeslots are a finite resource, they need to make hard calls about placing stable earners in them vs. new shows, for example, or bank on audiences finding those new shows anyway, via directed marketing effots. "Giving a show a chance to develop an audience" is technically achieved by airing it at all, and it's not the only thing they need to get done in a day.
You can criticize individual decisions they make, but only if you take that full picture of everything they need to accomodate into account. There can be good reasons why a network doesn't place your favorite show in your preferred timeslot.
- TillE 10y agoNobody's claiming that Fox made the decisions out of spite. Just that those decisions happened to greatly contribute to Firefly's failure. > "Giving a show a chance to develop an audience" is technically achieved by airing it at all Nah. You might get away with that now with DVRs and streaming and Twitter word-of-mouth, but not in 2002.
- ghaff 10y agoWithout commenting on Firefly specifically, one hears a lot of comments in the vein of: "They needed to just give this show another season so that it could find its voice/find an audience/develop its storyline/etc." Personally as a viewer, especially these days, you have very little time to grab me given how many options there are--and how relatively little time I spend watching TV. I'm not going to give your show 3 seasons, even if the network is willing, to hope it turns into something interesting.
- wruza 10y agoConsumer's life is fast and boring, so he cannot wait to entertain himself. I think it is called positive feedback.
- twoodfin 10y agoThis is exactly right. The X-Files had a shitty Friday night time slot when it first aired, and grew out of it to a prime slot on Sundays.