Serenity–Those Left Behind & Serenity–Better Days were two comic series–both available in omnibus form, I believe.
These stories are set in the period between the end of the series & the movie. Not as good as more TV–but at least cast availability & special effects costs don’t matter.
This is the $64,000 question. The fact that they seem to have learned their lesson with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles at least gives me hope for the future.
I’m not happy with its move to Friday (or Dollhouse’s slot on that day as well), but oh well. They’ve at least proven they’re not so quick to pull the trigger on a show they want killed anymore. That’s prgress.
It’s on sale for $30 at Amazon.ca -75% off! It’s $58 on Amazon USA Canada is Reg 1, BTW
Yeah, but those are Canadian DVDs! They only have 66% as much Firefly as the American ones do!
Yes, it’s an old joke. I still like it. 
DVDs are on the list of things that Amazon ships internationally–not sure about Blu-Ray though. I would think so.
Right, although the show was brilliant in many ways, it really wasn’t Great. It had problems, and some of those problems mean that it really wasn’t a great show for broadcast TV in the first place.
I’d say HBO, but HBO has recently done poorly IMHO with Deadwood, so I don’t know if even Cable would be an answer. But yes, Firefly would have done much bettter as a Mini-series than on broadcast TV. The SF channel is dead to me.
I have to say that I am not a huge fan of story arcs myself all the time. Sure, they can be good, but miss one of two shows and you’re lost, and it’s hard to attract new viewers like that. This is why NCIS is doing better than Heroes- Heroes can only lose viewers, while NCIS gets new viewers every week.
There’s quite a few “Brilliant But Cancelled” shows out there, Firefly is hardly the only one:
I tried putting it in the checkout with a US shipping address, and it let me. Go for it, Yankee browncoats!
How so?
I understand that there’s a high turnover rate among these execs too, and they’re under a lot of pressure to generate immediate results – it really doesn’t matter if a show becomes popular in two years – the exec probably won’t be around then. The show has to be popular right now, which means no long story arcs or any depth that might scare away the casual viewer.
Like KneadToKnow said, the execs don’t care about producing good shows. They care about getting a lot of people in the chair for 30 minutes or 60 minutes to watch the commercials. It doesn’t matter if these people are devoted fans or casual viewers (or zombies, for that matter).
I’m three years older than you and I loved Firefly.
Yes, but the international community likes them better.
Only because they’re so polite. Everyone assumes that they can push them around, never suspecting that which every Canadian secretly plots towards:
World Domination. :eek:
Dominating the world would interfere with valuable curling time, so really, those are just scare tactics 
That’s where the Spectre-esque freeze ray satelites come in handy.
In addition to that, there’s no real incentive for a corporate suit to support and nurture a project that was approved by a predecessor. Even if the show succeeds, the new guy won’t get credit for it since it was the old guy’s baby.
Better to shit on all those old projects to make them look like terrible ideas while you give all your time and attention to projects for which you will receive full acknowledgment of your good sense and judgment. Why would a suit care if the network has already sunk millions into the project when it’s somebody else’s reputation and ego at stake?
Is Fox going to be making Dollhouse available online? I haven’t been able to find any news on that. I’d be pretty happy to be able to watch it on Hulu or somesuch. Hell, season 3 of Heroes was made available on Netflix Watch Instantly, which I thought was brilliant.
I’m planning to watch this. I’d generally prefer not to wait a year for the DVDs. 
It’ll probably be on Hulu. Most of FOX’s shows are, and all of Joss’s (that I’m aware of), although Buffy is only partially available.
Hulu has seriously made life without cable TV pretty darn easy. Most stuff I’d want to watch is on there.
To those of you who’ve mentioned Better Days/Those Left Behind: I’m aware of them, and even have at least one of the two sitting around here somewhere. What I’m curious about are the further adventures of our Big Damn Heroes/the survival of the Firefly-verse in non-screenplay form. 
Also, Nathan Fillion has been busy with plenty of other work, and has a new TV series coming out right away. Adam Baldwin has a regular starring role on the fairly successful ‘Chuck’. Alan Tudyk’s star as a movie actor has risen quite a lot. So these people are probably getting lots of offers and are commanding pretty good salaries.
On the other hand, if they all become available again, their larger celebrity could be a drawing card for a second Firefly movie. I’d put more stock in that than in a new series, but I don’t think either are likely at this point.
Yeah, and you know what?* It’s his sled*, and the boat sinks.
Once a reasonable time has passed, it’s now history and we can discuss it freely.
Psst- Hitler isn’t assasinated.