fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #2642 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2642 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

[Homestuck]

__________________________________________________

03. http://i.imgur.com/BVCZgbY.gif
[moving gif]

__________________________________________________

04.

[Michelle Lee]

__________________________________________________

05.

[Ping Pong the Animation]

__________________________________________________

06.

__________________________________________________

07.

__________________________________________________

08.

__________________________________________________

09.

__________________________________________________

10.

__________________________________________________

11.

__________________________________________________

12.

[Lord of the Rings]

__________________________________________________

13.

__________________________________________________

14. [SPOILERS for Pandora Hearts]

__________________________________________________

15. [WARNING for sexual/emotional abuse]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

People in charge are afraid that viewers won't want to watch a female-centered show that's not specifically marketed to women, and so they don't produce/advertise those shows. Then the show does poorly, and so people in charge are afraid that viewers won't want to watch a female-centered show that's not specifically marketed to women.

For example, when Beeblock series three was about to air, there were ads promoting it everywhere I turned (IRL). I found out about Orphan Black through F!S and have only recently started watching it because an online friend of mine recommended it. If it weren't for word of mouth, I wouldn't have known that things like Orphan Black, The Fall, or Rizzoli and Isles (the show; I'd known about the books about three years before the show started aring).

You hit the nail on the head.

How did you never see ads for Orphan Black? Right now if I go to Amazon they have a banner saying I can watch it for free if I sign up for Amazon Prime. I've seen commercials on TV saying the same thing. I saw ads for Orphan Black at least a dozen times a day every day for at least a month before it first aired. I was so sick of seeing the ads that I almost didn't watch the show. With Rizzoli & Isles, that's exactly the reason I didn't watch it. And that's just talking about the TV ads; newspapers and magazines were saturated with print ads for both shows and TNT paid to feature Rizzoli & Isles on IMDB and tons of other websites.

And to be fair, Rizzoli and Isles is an American cable TV show on a channel that makes more bad than good shows. In fact, most of their shows at the time were police procedurals, so it was easy for audiences to get burned out. Rizzoli & Isles is the only one that started at that time to make it past one season (the others started before or were bought from other networks). It's done well with a niche audience, but it's ridiculous to think spending even more money on advertising would draw more viewers. And there isn't much international demand for a formulaic American show using tired tropes with average reviews, so if it airs outside the US, it isn't until long after it aired in the US.

But Orphan Black is an international show that airs about the same time in many countries and has a unique premise that draws viewers of a wider range than "Buddy cop show but with girls!" So while there is definitely more advertising for Orphan Black than Rizzoli & Isles, it isn't disproportionate to the size of likely viewers.

Yes, I found Orphan Black and Lost Girl and most of my lady centric shows by word of mouth.

[ SECRET POST #2642 ]

It's the ciiiiircle of crap

Re: It's the ciiiiircle of crap

Re: It's the ciiiiircle of crap

Re: It's the ciiiiircle of crap