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WB Thanks the Fans

Fox not canceling a sci-fi show is stunning and a little eery.
Particularly one with such iffy ratings...this may be the beginning of NBC and Fox taking the "new media" business model more seriously. Internet-fandom skewing shows that get higher than average paid downloads and DVR viewings (which are still good for product placement strategies which can't be zapped; and DVR viewers who actually watch the ads anyway tend to be 18-34, I guess the older folks are smarter ;)) will be the beneficiaries. Prison Break, Knight Rider, Chuck and My Own Worst Enemy also fall into this category, and they're being treated "eerily nicely" as well, when their ratings "should" get them cancelled.

I just wish it could save Pushing Daisies, but the earmarks are not there. The demo isn't young and it's on ABC. :( It also couldn't save Jericho - on CBS the "new media" business model doesn't count for much because their audience is older, stable and large.

Forget the prejudice against Fox. If Firefly were new this season, it would most likely survive. It's going to be increasingly crucial where these shows are airing. Pray for the shows you like to be on NBC or Fox, maybe on ABC, definitely not on CBS.

WB is thanking their viewers for being the right kind of viewers. But if the show were on CBS, they wouldn't be the right kind of viewers and the show would be toast.
 
I've been impressed with this show's efforts to dig into its characters a bit while throwing us some curveballs and keeping the action quotient high enough to feel like "Terminator." More episodes of it are good news for me!
 
Thread title is really misleading. This news should be trumpted more specifically.

Its not the best written show I've ever seen or the best acted, but I swear it is one of the fastest moving one hour drama's I've seen in a while. I read this on Sci-Fi's site yesterday and smiled. Hopefully now, with no strike, it will gather enough steam to get at least a 3rd season.
 
I've been impressed with this show's efforts to dig into its characters a bit while throwing us some curveballs and keeping the action quotient high enough to feel like "Terminator." More episodes of it are good news for me!

Agreed.
 
If Fox ever gets rid of it, Warner can move it to the CW where they can be more hip and aim for a younger audience. Just think of all the music possibilities and terminator angst.
 
You know if the producers, the writers or the actors were saying "thank you" I'd think that this was cute. but this here is like Caligula asking you to thank him for not raping your horse, or Hitler for no... remember when Gul Dukat said that he was not an evil man because he didn't kill all the Bajorans? Y'know he could have, and he thought about it, but he physically restrained himself from destroying the entire species and that is why they have to say thank you and build him some statues? This is just like that.
 
If Fox ever gets rid of it, Warner can move it to the CW where they can be more hip and aim for a younger audience. Just think of all the music possibilities and terminator angst.

Weaver: Do you think Skynet will call me tonight?
Cromartie: I just can't believe John Connor runs from me every time I see him.
John: Can you believe I've been on this show for seven years and I'm still not embracing my destiny?
 
It's a sad day when the stink of Smallville bleeds over and kills the hopes we have other television.

But that's what I liked about DS9 and Babylon 5. they said a war was coming. It came. And then it went.

The natural conclusion for the Sarah Connor Chronicles is to see the bombs going off for judgement day and then the screen goes black, and the credits roll silent... Just like Clark is supposed to putt he cape on and voyage out to Metropolis for the first time ever and meet Lois.
 
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You know if the producers, the writers or the actors were saying "thank you" I'd think that this was cute. but this here is like Caligula asking you to thank him for not raping your horse, or Hitler for no... remember when Gul Dukat said that he was not an evil man because he didn't kill all the Bajorans? Y'know he could have, and he thought about it, but he physically restrained himself from destroying the entire species and that is why they have to say thank you and build him some statues? This is just like that.

Greatest. Comparison. EVER. Gold star, man, gold star.
 
Anyone remember the end of Angel, when WB thanked the fans?

Yeah, nice way to show it guys
 
Fox not canceling a sci-fi show is stunning and a little eery.
Particularly one with such iffy ratings...this may be the beginning of NBC and Fox taking the "new media" business model more seriously. Internet-fandom skewing shows that get higher than average paid downloads and DVR viewings (which are still good for product placement strategies which can't be zapped; and DVR viewers who actually watch the ads anyway tend to be 18-34, I guess the older folks are smarter ;)) will be the beneficiaries. Prison Break, Knight Rider, Chuck and My Own Worst Enemy also fall into this category, and they're being treated "eerily nicely" as well, when their ratings "should" get them cancelled.

I just wish it could save Pushing Daisies, but the earmarks are not there. The demo isn't young and it's on ABC. :( It also couldn't save Jericho - on CBS the "new media" business model doesn't count for much because their audience is older, stable and large.

Forget the prejudice against Fox. If Firefly were new this season, it would most likely survive. It's going to be increasingly crucial where these shows are airing. Pray for the shows you like to be on NBC or Fox, maybe on ABC, definitely not on CBS.

WB is thanking their viewers for being the right kind of viewers. But if the show were on CBS, they wouldn't be the right kind of viewers and the show would be toast.
Even if there are viewers out there who are not watching "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," the Terminator name brand in popular culture has to remain relevant for the upcoming film.

A 4th film released only 7-months after a cancelled TV show of the same name doesn't sound good to general theatergoers.
 
Thats good news and they thank us male fans with a nice shot of Lena's awesome cleavage!!! I actually didn't know that they had only approved thirteen episodes but I guess that makes since after the confusion of not knowing if they would return at all.
 
Anyone remember the end of Angel, when WB thanked the fans?

Yeah, nice way to show it guys

If it makes you feel better the WB has become the CW which is a crappy network and likely to be shut down in the next few years.
 
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