[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I may have been way too busy to watch it (I was a senior in high school and had to do a dumb senior project that took up 95% of my time), but I don't even really remember much promotion for it.

If people don't promote a show, how on earth are people going to know it's on?

Take into account that it was 2002. While the internet wasn't super small, networks did NOT consider the internet as a viable source for anything, let alone promotion, until about 2004-2005 or so.

[(Anonymous)]

This is very true. But, as you mentioned, it was also 2002. Firefly contained

a) a main character who was a prostitute
b) good guy characters who were thieves
c) lesbian sex
d) some heavy anti-government sentiment
e) interracial marriage
f) (gentle) criticism of religion

and it aired on Fox. No way was that show staying on the air.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I imagine it was a fairly expensive show.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that was mainly the reason it got canned. The ship itself was a huge set, and probably took up a lot of space they could use for something less expensive.

[(Anonymous)]

According to TV Tropes - don't know how reliable they are - Fox actually requested a space prostitute; Joss didn't want to do it.

Also, Glee tens to criticize religion and stuff, although maybe the execs are different now. But mostly I think news!Fox and TV network!Fox are two different entities.

[(Anonymous)]

No you're right, FOX the network has never shied away from risky subject matter, in fact they basically built their network around it.

FOX found itself through shows like Married with Children which was extremely risky and very much hated by conservative groups at the time. But they really didn't care as long as they got ratings, and that's been a pretty consistent theme with their network.

[(Anonymous)]

You're confusing FOX News with the network as a whole. FOX the network has never built their programming based on socially conservative sanitized shows.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC wasn't 2002 a pretty bad year for TV shows in general? I seem to remember that in the first half of the year, all the networks were scrambling to replace content that they suddenly couldn't air because of fallout from 9/11.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeeeeeep.

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, you just made me realize we're talking about a show that's ten years old.

Where did the time go???

[(Anonymous)]

I recall fox programming at the time was basically a revolving door, even worse that it is now. Fox might give shows a season or 2 now, but in 2002 it was a constant put something on just to take it off. The show that replaced Firefly didn't last long either.

I remember a joke on Family Guy about it where they basically listed off all the shows on Fox that got cancelled around that time and it was a LONG LIST>

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[(Anonymous)]

http://video.adultswim.com/family-guy/weve-been-cancelled.html

[(Anonymous)]

That along with... when was the Writer's Guild strike, 2008? I think that ruined some shows that could've been amazing too. They weren't all canceled but the plotlines and writers got all screwed up. /Heroes grudge.