[J3Vr6]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/18/1511252.shtml?tid=129&tid=186&tid=188&tid=214


I am a happy camper, yes I am!!!!

[Kazan]

i need a new source of the eps

[DragonClaw]

As if it wasn't expected...

[J3Vr6]

Yeah if it gets moved to Friday there's probably no way for me to see it except for the re-airing at 11pm on Sunday.  There's no way my girl is gonna sit thru Enterprise.

[JarC]

oh man...you are so being played

I am just curious who picked up this commercial trick from who

It's a proven scenario to raise the return on commercial time

first they threaten to cancel a reasonable popular show,
than they just sit back untill the fans start to holar
then they turn around to their advertisers saying,
 'look, our show is so popular this is how far people willl go to keep it aired, now pay our new prices. if you do we will reschedule it against a competing channel so viewers are forced to make a choice, which means they won't see the ads of your competitors...'
...and the advertisers pay up, the network turns around to the fans saying they won't cancel, and everyone is happy...NOT! I've seen it happen sooo many times now...

[SadisticSid]

Not really, it's simply the case that the writers made a half-decent season this time with a format that has been well-received by both fans and first time viewers. They REALLY HAVE improved it.

[an0n]

I call bull****, JarC.

And I cite Farscape as an example.

And Roswell. And Brimstone. And Dead Like Me. And Good vs Evil. And Nip/Tuck. And Angel. And Jake 2.0. And Jeremiah. And Six Feet Under. And Firefly.

They just like cancelling good shows and occassionally change their mind when a big franchise like Trek and Paramount start making threats about other shows.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Kazan
i need a new source of the eps

Keyword: NiteShdw

[JarC]

Another keyword: The Junkie

There's no accounting for personal taste...

IMO Farscape was good only for the first 6 eps, after that it became a compilation of writers block and hairdragged excuses for a story, without so much as a baseline (unless you want to call Harvey's hunt for wormhole knowledge a baseline...) and then it turned it into a scifi mockup of a sitcom...yuck
 what a cheap Red Dwarf imitation...

Dead Like Me? Started nice with good FX (liked the toilet seat no matter how far fetched it was) became boring after the second one, and this is comedy? moaning , groaning and continuous complaining? (sheesh, imagine having a date with such a grouchy excuse for a girl, does she even know how to smile? so, bummer, your dead? ****, enjoy it...!?)

Nip/Tuck, Good vs. Evil...~~~~ nice try though....

Angel...great show...if they'd stuck to the original backbone story line...Buffy OTOH...puleaase join 6ft under...and stay there...!

And for the record...who finances Enterprise? (now say again it ain't just a scheme to pump advertisors) it is just plain business...
and even though I enjoy Enterprise, it too is becoming repetitious, BTDT as they say...still, it's a proven formula, and T'Pol is still a real hottie

[an0n]

Angel woulda been salvagable in an episode or three if they'd had everyone just going "Y'know, what? **** the compromising. Let's burn this place to the ground" then calling in the Slayer Army to hunt down everyone on Wolfram & Hart's books and having Ilyria and Willow go take on the senior partners.

[Carl]

...and cast a spell that somehow involves taking off their shirts.

[Ulala]

Ugh, I hope it doesn't end up on Friday night. Friday night basically spells doom for nearly every reasonable series...

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Carl
...and cast a spell that somehow involves taking off their shirts.

Anything to get Angel topless.

[Liberator]

Was thinking Willow, Illyria, and maybe Harmony, but whatever floats your boat.

[Blaise Russel]

Originally posted by JarC
IMO Farscape was good only for the first 6 eps, after that it became a compilation of writers block and hairdragged excuses for a story, without so much as a baseline (unless you want to call Harvey's hunt for wormhole knowledge a baseline...) and then it turned it into a scifi mockup of a sitcom...yuck
 what a cheap Red Dwarf imitation...

[J3Vr6]

Clearer news on this:

http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270355&obj_id=41559


JarC, although in theory what you say makes sense if the advertisers were children and that easy to manipulate, you're still talking out of your ass.  They were going to cancel Enterprise cuz it had one of the lowest tv ratings.  I think the last time I checked it was ranked 109 or something.  So it doesn't matter how many advertisers were on-line with Enterprise, if no one was watching then it wouldn't matter.

[Bobboau]

if advertisers were willing to pay for it they'd run it even if no one was watching, rateings is what advertisers look at.

"...if the advertisers were children and that easy to manipulate..."
you poor naive fool...

[J3Vr6]

How am I a poor naive fool?  Advertisers aren't gonna pay for a show that's not being watched.  Like u said, if advertisers were willing to pay then they'd put the show on no matter what.  But how do advertisers know if they wanna pay those prices?  By looking at the ratings.  Why do u think the SuperBowl pulls in $1.5 million 30 second commercials?  That comment from Jarc saying that they're doing it to "trick" the advertisers into thinking it's a hit show would only work if the advertisers were 8 years old and talking about ice cream.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by an0n
And Six Feet Under.

They canceled Six Feet Under? Oh my ****ing god! I'd rather see Enterprise cancelled.

Of course, given that Enterprise has yet to produce a truly entertaining episode à la Farscape or a truly deep, meaningful and emotional episode, à la Babylon 5, I wouldn't really care anyway.

[an0n]

I think they said it was 'on hiatus'.

But when they put Jake 2.0 on hiatus the Executive Producer, David Greenwalt, said: "To say we're on hiatus is about the same as saying that O.J. and Nicole Simpson are having a trial separation."

So for all intents and purposes: Hiatus = Cancelled.

Mind, Jake 2.0 was UPN and Six Feet Under is HBO, so their definitions may be somewhat different.