Hey, that’s great. Move the season (and, likely, series) finale for the show that you just can’t seem to find viewers for over to a completely different night, so nobody can find the damn thing. That’s worked so well in the past.
Oh, and put it up against THE OPENING CEREMONIES FOR THE OLYMPICS. Good job, dickheads- that’ll really draw in the new viewers. :smack:
Every time someone claims that Fox gave AD a more than fair shake, and that it must be the show’s fault that they just couldn’t find the viewers, a little piece of my soul dies.
Well, at least we get to see the final four episodes.
I guess we can’t be too angry - the show’s gotten the axe already, and to be honest, I wasn’t expecting to see the final episodes until the DVDs. FOX is probably under the impression that they’re doing the fans a favor by showing them at all.
Well, three years is a long time. And I don’t think they’re bothering to look for viewers, hey just want to get them overwith. They probably wouldn’t even show them if it weren’t for people like us who would send them poison muffins.
That said, this greatly bums me out as well, and I certainly hope ABC or Showtime come through.
Hey, at least you’re ending with a 2hr finale. Firefly’s run ended with its 2hr pilot episode. Who the fuck ENDS a series with the 2hr pilot? Oh, that’s right, FOX.
Why bother trying to drum up viewers for the last episodes of a show you’re cancelling?
Personally, I’m glad. I’ll need help ignoring the Olympics, and I’m less exhausted and busy on Fridays. Here’s hoping ABC’s scheduling people are kinder than Fox’s.
I’ve never seen AD so I don’t know what the uproar is about with the cancellation. Apparently it’s a rather popular show around these parts? (Tongue in cheek as I have read other threads about this matter.) I have two questions.
First, who the hell is watching the Opening Ceremonies? Isn’t it mostly atheletes marching under their flag with their anthem playing? I thought national pride was something that we have to move away from. Or is that just for certain countries? If the Olympics are supposed to be about the spirit of competition and not national pride (a concept unheard of until recently) then wouldn’t it be better to have all the bobsledders walk in together? All the speedskaters at the same time? Atheletes being introduced instead of nations? Just a thought.
Second, is there any way another network can buy the rights to the show at a reasonable price? Based on the popularity I’ve seen here there is a solid audience. Fox would have every right to give up the rights to it at an inflated price, but since they cancelled it would there be any way for, say, NBC to get it at a lesser price based on the cancellation? Through a lawsuit brought by the creators or an appeal to whatever union they’d be dealing with? I realize the creators likely signed away rights to Fox when it was picked up, but if it’s cancelled they are effectively saying they don’t want it anymore. I thought there were cases where a rival network picked up a cancelled show, but can’t think of any that I know of. Any help on that one?
Finally, is the core AD audience the ones that watch the opening ceremonies? I really don’t know. Any insight on that?
Hey, the Opening Ceremonies are cool. I always get a kick out of the March of the Athletes and the Lighting of the Torch. I want to see the outfits each country decks their people in, and it is nice to see the unbridled pride and fun on their faces, before the game-face gets put on.
Besides, I never thought AD was interesting anyway.
One more reason to hope the ABC deal comes through and Arrested Development becomes a top ten show on its new network. I want those FOX idiots (my apologies for the redundancy) to have undeniable proof that the low ratings were entriely due to their mishandling of this series.
I could care less about the Olympics, but Friday night is usually get rowdy time. Despite being one of my favorite shows of all time, booze + company + new time slot will make it easy to forget it’s coming on.
Um, sorry, but it’s the truth. It’s had three seasons with which to find an audience and it has failed to do so. It’s also apparently very expensive to produce. Frankly, I say good riddance to one of the most annoying, unfunny and overhyped shows I’ve ever had the displeasure to give multiple chances to.
Aw man, I loved the show but sometimes it made me concentrate too hard. I ended up avoiding the discussions afterwards over at TWOP because I felt I’d been given a test and had to notice tons of stuff.
But I will miss it terribly, and will see if the New Yorkers over there want to get together. That’s gonna be a lot of plot to get through at once. At least we don’t have to wait a zillion months for the DVD to get our fix.
Also, I always enjoy the opening ceremonies but do NOT enjoy watching them on American TV. The inane, uninformed comments and frequent commercials and cutting away of barebreasted Minoan snake women…
I like the show, though I haven’t seen that many episodes.
But why would Fox care at this point if they drum up viewers? Drum up viewers for what? How many new viewers will any defunct show get of their final episode(s)? Fox is looking at a night where they are going to get creamed. They have some episodes of AD left. The fans of AD want to see the episodes. No one else on the planet cares. Any show is going to do poorly. Why not show AD?
I hope for the sake of the fans that another network picks up the show. I think that’d be great. But at this point, Fox doesn’t owe the show anything. And lots of shows never get the chance to show episodes once the cancelation notice comes.
They started alternating winter olympics and summer olympics about ten years ago. As I remember it, they had 'em in '92 and then again in '94 (the year Jeff Gilooley stole everybody’s hears), to get 'em out of sync with the summer olympics and increase ratings, revenues, etc.
Pah. Olympics are supposed to be about athletic excellence, not about revenues (that’s for PROFESSIONAL sporting events). Hell with 'em. Hell with parades, too.
There’s definitely revenue to be had, but it also makes it easier for the teams to raise money if they’re not knocking corporate doors at the same time.
I’ve always liked to watch them. I’ve got a soft spot for pageantry, and there’s always the morbid interest in what godawful creative choices will show up in either the ceremonies themselves (e.g. the glowing belly in the Athens games, the Clantasia outfits in the Salt Lake games) or in the commentary (e.g. noting that Iran is part of the Axis of Terror while the Iranian athletes entered).
Doesn’t this idea ever get old? It comes up every two years like clockwork.
