My letter to Fox
I am extremely disappointed with you, the Fox network, for your complete lack of ability to help create shows. You have to stop with the quick hook of doom. Shows develop, word of mouth, online communities help build and grow a show, but if you don't allow this, nobody is going to care about anything you air. Its only by the grace of God that a show such as Seinfeld wasn't on your network, or it would never have developed. If you had put the X-files on this year, and it got the ratings it got, it wouldn't have made it 5 weeks. Give a show a chance. Look at what a show is against, putting on a show in early spring against a very highly rated show, you cheat yourself and anybody who works on the program.
I watched Drive, because I liked the cast. To me, it was appointment viewing. I know that to quite a few others, it was. The show was working, I'm not sure it was a show that had a long shelf life, but it had more than you are giving it.
Really, whomever is in charge of shows being cancelled needs to be cancelled themselves as they obviously have lost touch with the ability to develop a show.
You want to know why shows such as Drive don't come out and do American Idol numbers? Its because they know that the networks (and Fox being among the worst, if not the worst), don't invest in a show. Why should I, as an audience member give up my time to a show that, odds are, the network isn't going to get behind and it will be gone within a few weeks.
When a show is unique, that requires suspending some belief, give the audience a reason to be invested in a show. Let them know you're going to allow a show a chance to grow. The show was going against Dancing with the Stars and Deal or No Deal. Wow there is no audiences for those shows I guess. If you'll add it up, I'm pretty confident in saying that there is less audience at 8, than there is 9. You're dealing with Spring coming into Summer. More daylight, people getting outside and all.
You show no investment in a program, so again why would an audience invest. Move the show around to an alternate time, see if the audience goes with it, see if you can grow the audience some.
Instead, you take quality television programs, and boot them way to quickly.
And you wonder why your network, after this many years, is still seen only slightly ahead of the CW. I'm not talking ratings, I'm talking in how it is viewed. The saving grace of your network is American Idol, and the luster is starting to wear on it some. Now is the time when you should be trying to develop shows, allow a show to be built. Instead, you keep hopeing you'll find a diamond ever 5 minutes. You have to work that coal to make a diamond, it doesn't just happen.
I am completely disgusted with your network. Congratulations, the joke that is the Fox network is viewed as online, continues.
With much disgust,
Freddy McCowan
Clintwood, VA
I watched Drive, because I liked the cast. To me, it was appointment viewing. I know that to quite a few others, it was. The show was working, I'm not sure it was a show that had a long shelf life, but it had more than you are giving it.
Really, whomever is in charge of shows being cancelled needs to be cancelled themselves as they obviously have lost touch with the ability to develop a show.
You want to know why shows such as Drive don't come out and do American Idol numbers? Its because they know that the networks (and Fox being among the worst, if not the worst), don't invest in a show. Why should I, as an audience member give up my time to a show that, odds are, the network isn't going to get behind and it will be gone within a few weeks.
When a show is unique, that requires suspending some belief, give the audience a reason to be invested in a show. Let them know you're going to allow a show a chance to grow. The show was going against Dancing with the Stars and Deal or No Deal. Wow there is no audiences for those shows I guess. If you'll add it up, I'm pretty confident in saying that there is less audience at 8, than there is 9. You're dealing with Spring coming into Summer. More daylight, people getting outside and all.
You show no investment in a program, so again why would an audience invest. Move the show around to an alternate time, see if the audience goes with it, see if you can grow the audience some.
Instead, you take quality television programs, and boot them way to quickly.
And you wonder why your network, after this many years, is still seen only slightly ahead of the CW. I'm not talking ratings, I'm talking in how it is viewed. The saving grace of your network is American Idol, and the luster is starting to wear on it some. Now is the time when you should be trying to develop shows, allow a show to be built. Instead, you keep hopeing you'll find a diamond ever 5 minutes. You have to work that coal to make a diamond, it doesn't just happen.
I am completely disgusted with your network. Congratulations, the joke that is the Fox network is viewed as online, continues.
With much disgust,
Freddy McCowan
Clintwood, VA