Quote of the day 7/25/2009
"Someone will eventually see that failure on Fox says more about the network then the show." ~ My dad, about how Fox chews through sci-fi.
I'm sure most of the my friends list would see how this applies to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it was actually prompted by my incessant ranting about how Virtuality was murdered by Fox.
So, I have this habit of following the filmographies of actors I like, and saw that the awesome Clea DuVall was gonna be in some new sci fi drama and wanted to check it out. The fact that there were producers and writers that were also involved with Battlestar Galactica and Carnivale just totally sweetened the deal and upped my expectations. When I first started poking around the net the general word was that the whole project was getting ganked every which way because, well... they signed with FOX. FOX for fucks sake. Note to all sci fi writers: NEVER TAKE YOUR SHOW TO FOX. Your story will not be the uber special one that succeeds so long as current management is employed.
So I look and look for awhile, find story summaries, character bios, blah blah blah, but the most foreboding was finding the original intended air date and the fact that it wasn't shown. Then I find an interview with a Fox exec blabbing something about the show being too complex and needing to be simplified if it was gonna get picked up. A month of no news after that is the point at which I figured the whole thing was dead in the water before it even began and stopped checking in. This was earlier this year.
So, only yesterday as I stumbled bored around IMDB, I find out that the backdoor pilot aired last month. I certainly didn't see a single ad for it. The pilot was billed as a TV movie by Fox. They actually had it slated for awhile for July 4th of all days, but from what I can see from piecing together articles, had the sense to move it but not the sense to really keep people up to date. And it was stuck in the Friday night death slot. No shit the ratings tanked. Supreme mismanagement much Fox? To boot, the pilot has already been taken down off both Hulu and Fox On Demand, so there isn't much way for me to check it out and show some support.
So, because I must be a damn masochist, I pirate the thing. And, just as I expect, loved it. Yet another reason to hate Fox with a passion.
I'm sure most of the my friends list would see how this applies to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it was actually prompted by my incessant ranting about how Virtuality was murdered by Fox.
So, I have this habit of following the filmographies of actors I like, and saw that the awesome Clea DuVall was gonna be in some new sci fi drama and wanted to check it out. The fact that there were producers and writers that were also involved with Battlestar Galactica and Carnivale just totally sweetened the deal and upped my expectations. When I first started poking around the net the general word was that the whole project was getting ganked every which way because, well... they signed with FOX. FOX for fucks sake. Note to all sci fi writers: NEVER TAKE YOUR SHOW TO FOX. Your story will not be the uber special one that succeeds so long as current management is employed.
So I look and look for awhile, find story summaries, character bios, blah blah blah, but the most foreboding was finding the original intended air date and the fact that it wasn't shown. Then I find an interview with a Fox exec blabbing something about the show being too complex and needing to be simplified if it was gonna get picked up. A month of no news after that is the point at which I figured the whole thing was dead in the water before it even began and stopped checking in. This was earlier this year.
So, only yesterday as I stumbled bored around IMDB, I find out that the backdoor pilot aired last month. I certainly didn't see a single ad for it. The pilot was billed as a TV movie by Fox. They actually had it slated for awhile for July 4th of all days, but from what I can see from piecing together articles, had the sense to move it but not the sense to really keep people up to date. And it was stuck in the Friday night death slot. No shit the ratings tanked. Supreme mismanagement much Fox? To boot, the pilot has already been taken down off both Hulu and Fox On Demand, so there isn't much way for me to check it out and show some support.
So, because I must be a damn masochist, I pirate the thing. And, just as I expect, loved it. Yet another reason to hate Fox with a passion.