Because there aren't enough reasons to hate Fox

[yendi]

You know what's a great idea? Taking a hit freshman show with tons of buzz, and putting it on a four-month hiatus! That won't tank it or anything.

Also, how about taking your awesome sophomore sci-fi show, burying it on a brutal Thursday night, and then putting it on hiatus for a couple of months?

Those shows would be Glee and Fringe, of course.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I could *not* get into Fringe, and I tried.

[yendi]

It took a while for me to warm up to it, but by the end of last season, it was firing on all cylinders, and it's continued to do so this year.

[audacian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. I think its the acting.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

There's acting in Fringe? I hadn't noticed.

[sistermaryeris.livejournal.com]

Whyyyy would they do that to Glee? Ugh. I hate them.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

That's what gets me about Fox...

I mean, other networks cancel promising shows, but Fox also seems to do really stupid things like this, even when they run contrary to their own best interest.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

I thought about htis for a moment... and I think what they're doing is taking a new show, which during introduction would have been negotiated to a lower cost since it's unproven, and running it until the show cast/crew start negotiating upwards. When the costs go up, the long knives come out.

Kind of a "fast burn" model... and it makes a little sense, the more popular a show is, the faster the cost model rises and the sooner the 'popularity throttling' starts.

[wishiwasnt.livejournal.com]

I'm still at work, with no prospects of going home soon, and I need to be in early tomorrow, and this is still the thing that's made me the angriest.

Well, as regards Glee. I wasn't able to get into Fringe, despite my best efforts.

[elsewhere7.livejournal.com]

... Glee. They're doing that? When they could put it on right after American Idol and rake in the ratings?

[yendi]

Yeah, that would make sense, wouldn't it?

[littlebuhnee.livejournal.com]

When I win the lottery and I become stupid-rich, rest assured that I will be buying FOX, and all their stupidity will come to an end.

[yendi]

Yay! I support this plan.

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

yay!!

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Glee will be just fine.

They ran the first episode last Spring and it was so good we all watched it again when it ran in the Fall.
Glee has its fanatical base that will assure that it makes it through - it's kind of one of those "we were all outcasts in high school so we relate, but wouldn't it have been ubercool if we could have also been incredible singers and dancers too... sigh" living vicariously shows.

Fringe never did it for me. DVRd the first 4 episodes, then tried to get through the first one 4 times before admitting defeat.
I love good Sci-Fi... that wasn't it for me.

[yendi]

I'm not as optimistic as you are about it; the first episode was essentially standalone. Now, there are ongoing plotlines; putting quirky shows on hiatus can cause fans to lose interest in those plotlines (see ABC's handling of Pushing Daisies).

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I'm in the desperately-hoping-this-doesn't-kill-Glee camp. Pushing Daisies didn't have the benefit of CDs and iTunes song "leaks" to keep people interested.