I’m in the middle of watching my tape of last Thursday’s show when I checked my email and saw this message. What timing.
I think Fox works overtime to try to suck. Except for the Sunday night lineup, Wonderfalls was their only other show I watched. And as for Sunday, I can do without Oliver Beene, Bernie Mac, and Malcom in the Middle.
Well I guess I won’t have a taping conflict with Kingdom Hospital now. I sure hope they release all the episodes of Wonderfalls on DVD.
My heart is just breaking.
Poor Tim Minear. 
He was so very excited about the show–as excited as Joss was for Firefly.
TV really has become a wasteland. THere’s so much wonderful talent out there, and by wonderful talent, I mean Tim Minear, David Greenwalt (Jake 2.0 was killed early this season…) and all of the Mutant Enemy staff. And now all of their shows are killed, dead, and why?
If I didn’t have The Shield to look forward to (Shawn Ryan is another ME alum), I’d probably cancel my cable subscription.
Once they get canceled due to the time-slot hopping, they can be set up with Evening Edition, in which a newspaper dispatches the main character to do weird tasks, Quantum Leap in which a malfunctioning time machine dispatches the main character to do weird tasks, Voyagers! in which a malfunctioning time machine dispatches the main characters to do weird tasks, Sliders in which a malfunctioning dimension hopping machine dispatches characters to do weird tasks, and Highway to Heaven
I say it’s time for an entire channel devoted to [blank] dispatches the main character to help people. The Good Samaritan Channel perhaps?
The “Hey! Do this!” Channel.
I just… I just don’t get it.
Dammit, dammit! ANGEL dying, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT on the edge, and I can’t afford the new FREAKS AND GEEKS DVD.
Life sucks TV-wise. I had just this week made this show a must-see. And poor Minear says the cancellation is effective immediately, so no Canadian housekeeper next week. Damn, I wanted to see how many references they could sneak in to the fact that they’re shot in Canada using so many Canadian actors–the Laura Secord box last week, for example, and the fact that you can play HITG! Canada version every week.
Shit. Aside from that bitch recapper over at TWOP, yet another example of Let’s Let Somebody Who Hates the Show Write the Recap and Publicly Call for its Cancellation, nobody I know is happy about this.
Four damn episodes. Just sad.
It should’ve been on cable, frankly - it was a little too smart and snarky for network TV. Looks like I’m down to the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, and ( if they ever get around to the second season ) Dead Like Me. Hmmm…all cable. What a surprise.
Actually Joan of Arcadia is okay, but I haven’t been following it regularly.
Er… You know that’s the point of TWOP, don’t you? They pick the shows they think they’ll hate the most, then see how it goes. I love the site, even when shows I like are victim.
I love FOX, they give retarded monkeys the jobs they so desperately need. What do you bet they’ll put another shitty reality show in Wonderfalls place? Now I’m really bummed I didn’t tape the nun episode
I started a pit thread about this for anyone that may have stronger language to use towards FOX than otherwise might be allowed in CS. I believe somewhere in my incoherent ranting there’s mention of FOX’s love affair with Reality TV.
Tamerlane: I’m sure you know this, but just in case: did you know that one of the same people that worked with Tim Minear on Wonderfalls was also on the creative team behind Dead Like Me (which I also happen to love).
I’ve got an AVI if you want it. (Hey - it’s not like Fox want to make money from the show, is it?)
Most likely it’ll be that crud “The Swan”. Sad.
I’m so frustrated over this! I haven’t liked a Fox show in ages and here one comes that’s fun and snarky and all…and they give it 4 shows.
Stupid stupid stupid.
Fox can’t abide having more than one decent live action show on their lineup, apparently. Everything they air that is any good besides 24 gets cancelled. Idiots.
Are all the Fox execs 13 years old? They have all the patience of monkeys on crack. “NOWNOWNOWNOWNOW! WHAT, NO 25 RATING RIGHT AWAY? KILLYOU!!!”
What happened to the folks who gave Cheers a chance? All retired or dead?
Four shows isn’t long enough to prove anything unless the show really is awful.
And the big fat geniuses in charge of the networks wonder why TV ratings are plummeting. :rolleyes:
Look, it’s pretty simple. Nobody can watch a show if they don’t know when it’s on. And certainly nobody can watch a show if it’s cancelled before they get a chance to watch it. (“Hey, there’s a great new show on!” “Really? What’s it called?” “Never mind, they just cancelled it.”)
Yeah, I did. It showed :). They made a fine double-header in my time zone. Wonderfalls on FOX at nine, then re-runs of Dead Like Me on Showtime at ten.
So much for that.
Actually it would be nice if Showtime would consider picking up Wonderfalls, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
It did. In fact I didn’t know who was behind Wonderfalls until after I’d watched the Pilot. I remember thinking several times during it that it reminded me a lot of Dead Like Me. Imagine my surprise when I discovered why. 
sigh
When the show first ran, I bet my friends that, since it was so good, it wouldn’t last six episodes. Fox beat me by 2.
That takes the grand total of shows I now watch on Fox to… lessee… none. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Yeah, me too. I never watched Fox before, and if Wonderfalls is really over, I have no reason to flip to that channel anymore.
Okay, my Sunday TV Week (from the Washington Post) tells me that this week Wonderfalls is airing on Friday. So was last week just a temporary switch, or is the TV Week wrong? grumble I need consistency, darn it!