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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-28 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2642 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2642 ⌋

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

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[Homestuck]


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[Michelle Lee]


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[Ping Pong the Animation]


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[Lord of the Rings]


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14. [SPOILERS for Pandora Hearts]



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15. [WARNING for sexual/emotional abuse]
















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Re: It's the ciiiiircle of crap

(Anonymous) 2014-03-29 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
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.