FOX (ended 2007)
How can managers mantain their position if they keep cancelling shows that just started and the viewers just couldn't be there because practically no one but a few know a new serie ?!
FOX managers are totally out of mind, they deserve to be fired. FOX needs to go bankrupt, these people have some serious issues along with CBS, ABC and the others. They keep cancelling high quality shows of any kind, they have no respect for viewers nor producers and the staff.
| aredo3604 wrote: |
| How can managers mantain their position if they keep cancelling shows that just started and the viewers just couldn't be there because practically no one but a few know a new serie ?! FOX managers are totally out of mind, they deserve to be fired. FOX needs to go bankrupt, these people have some serious issues along with CBS, ABC and the others. They keep cancelling high quality shows of any kind, they have no respect for viewers nor producers and the staff. |
It was definitely mishandled, but I was never in love with this series. Hopefully the basic concept will be used again some day, its not a bad one; make it more like DEATH RACE 2000 - make it a real time 24 hour race across the country set in the near future.The rating plumetted right out of the starting gate and was very expensive to produce (lots of location shooting) and thats why it was cancelled. Id rather see TRAVELER brought back than this show.
Quality has little to do with whether a series gets the axe or not. Its all about RATINGS.
| yrag2005 wrote: |
| but how do we know the rating systems were right? what if everyone was downloading the eps? |
But that doesn't change the fact that it tanked in the ratings. The show started off in the red and steadily went downhill from there with each subsequent episode. True, this means that a whole lot of people missed out on a great show, but they still missed it and that's where the bottom line is.
You speak of the ratings system being antiquated, maybe people were watching it online. Maybe you're right, but you have to understand, the ratings system isn't really about measuring how many people are tuning in to watch a particular show, it's about how many people may potentially see a particular ad air. The bottom line is the money, and the networks get money by selling ads during shows, and they can charge more money for an ad during a particular show if they can show more people are tuning in to see that show and thus will potentially see the ad. If people are watching the show online, guess what, they aren't watching the ads, and so it doesn't matter if every living man, woman and child on this planet tunes in online - no ads viewed, no money for the network.
So the system works, it's just not measuring what you think it does or what you want it to.
And for everyone wanting to string up the Fox execs for cancelling this show, much as I hate them for their treatment of Firefly, they actually treated Drive right.The advertised it heavily for months prior to the first episode (to the point I almost didn't tune in because I was already sick of it, just from the ads). They made the premiere night into a two-hour event. And they paired it with their single most successful action show for its regular timeslot. Mind you, there are those that whine that 24 was declining in quality and that House or American Idol are far more successful shows, but they aren't ACTION shows like Drive - they don't have the same core audience as Drive did, whereas 24 does.
