Why did they cancel Dark Angel?

[bleeb]

I think fans wanted Jessica Alba to show more boobs...

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: rh71
debuting on a Friday night didn't help Firefly either.

Call it the X-Files effect. Because of the success of the X-Files on Friday night, Fox believed that all sci-fi shows should be shown on Friday night.

It pretty much sucks now that the only time you can get any halfway decent sci-fi is on the SciFi channel on Friday night.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: rh71
debuting on a Friday night didn't help Firefly either.

Call it the X-Files effect. Because of the success of the X-Files on Friday night, Fox believed that all sci-fi shows should be shown on Friday night.

It pretty much sucks now that the only time you can get any halfway decent sci-fi is on the SciFi channel on Friday night.

I thought X-Files showed on Sundays, gained popularity, then moved to Fridays... ?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: bleeb
I think fans wanted Jessica Alba to show more boobs...

19 year old female has the spotlight on her own 1-hr tv show. Damned right guys (and some girls) wanted it.

Alba would be nobody if James Cameron didn't pick her.

 

[Kibbo]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: tangent1138
sci fi = expensive effects and (relatively speaking) low ratings.
unfortunately reality tv is taking over. it's super cheap to make and they get high ratings. look at that american idol crap.

Reality TV must die!!!! its ruining tv.. god I really think we need to move away from network tv and make a show like a subscription just subscribe to the shows you like no ads no crap just get a new show weekly or biweekly deliverd to a video on demand box...say 20 bucks per series per year for high end dramas/scifi, 5-10 bucks for cheaper shows. You would only need a million people ot watch a show based on the average million per episode high end dramas make. I mean look at enterprise it gets about 3million people watching a week, say half of them are fans, thats a 1.5million people. I know what your saying people won't want to pay for watching a show, but they al ready are people pay upwards to 50-100 a mounth for cable and satalight, and honestly how much of it do you really watch? lets say you watch 10 new shows thats 200 bucks a year. add in "rerun" packs for older shows for say 1-2bucks a year. I honestly think this would greatly improve the quality of tv and would allow for more niche tv genres to emerge.

semi-intersting concept. hmm.

1.*looks around*
2.*jots down falloutboy's idea*
3.*waits for perfect oportunity*
4.*Masturbate furiously
...
Profit!

My money says that Netflix will move towards something like this within 2 years. Anyone know if they are public? If not, get in on their IPO if they offer it before this goes live. It's gonna be a cash cow.

 

[n7]

It's very simple.

Fox = teh sux0rs.

Also, the second season really did kinda suck.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: rh71
debuting on a Friday night didn't help Firefly either.

Call it the X-Files effect. Because of the success of the X-Files on Friday night, Fox believed that all sci-fi shows should be shown on Friday night.

It pretty much sucks now that the only time you can get any halfway decent sci-fi is on the SciFi channel on Friday night.

I thought X-Files showed on Sundays, gained popularity, then moved to Fridays... ?

Nope, other way around. X-Files debuted Sept 10, 1993 (according to tvtome.com). A friday.

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: tangent1138
sci fi = expensive effects and (relatively speaking) low ratings.
unfortunately reality tv is taking over. it's super cheap to make and they get high ratings. look at that american idol crap.

Reality TV must die!!!! its ruining tv.. god I really think we need to move away from network tv and make a show like a subscription just subscribe to the shows you like no ads no crap just get a new show weekly or biweekly deliverd to a video on demand box...say 20 bucks per series per year for high end dramas/scifi, 5-10 bucks for cheaper shows. You would only need a million people ot watch a show based on the average million per episode high end dramas make. I mean look at enterprise it gets about 3million people watching a week, say half of them are fans, thats a 1.5million people. I know what your saying people won't want to pay for watching a show, but they al ready are people pay upwards to 50-100 a mounth for cable and satalight, and honestly how much of it do you really watch? lets say you watch 10 new shows thats 200 bucks a year. add in "rerun" packs for older shows for say 1-2bucks a year. I honestly think this would greatly improve the quality of tv and would allow for more niche tv genres to emerge.

Network tv is free to us because they are being paid by advertisers (commercials). The better the show / the more people who watch, the more the network is financially supported (and they pay the show). Nothing new there. What you're missing in the subscription proposition is marketing. We hear about these shows because there are network campaigns to market them - we see them repeatedly and we may even catch an episode or two and become interested.

Now are you really going to get 1.5 million people to subscribe to a show which was never shown on public television ? That's pretty ambitious. And better yet, would production companies take a gamble on creating these shows without knowing how well it will be received ? The profits would only come in after subscriptions are purchased and they would have to rely on themselves to do the marketing... even more $$$ expunged.

true its more upfront risk for the production company. I see having a free Pilot for each show available to watch so people get a feel for a show to see if they like it or not. granted a show that doesn't catch on would be a lose to the studio but looks at hits they would be much much more profitable to the studio than it is now to them you get 5 million people paying out for a show the studio is making a hell of alot more than they would if they just got payed by the networks. although the question then comes how would something like this start? prolly would take 5 years till fiber internet has penetrated the market enough. but once it does I could see it starting with a few programs and once it catches on and proves profitable it would make way for more shows to move in that direction

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
the first season rocked....then the second season well...lets just say it didn't

I tend to agree with this statement. I watched the entire first season, and it was pretty good. The plot went to hell after that, and even Miss Alba couldn't keep my attention. I wasn't motivated to watch anymore... but I was a little sad to hear it was being cancelled.

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
the first season rocked....then the second season well...lets just say it didn't

I tend to agree with this statement. I watched the entire first season, and it was pretty good. The plot went to hell after that, and even Miss Alba couldn't keep my attention. I wasn't motivated to watch anymore... but I was a little sad to hear it was being cancelled.

It started out as a very dark/serious show, then it got stupid, like, slipping on a banana peel stupid.

 

[classy]

Why did they cancel Dark Angel?

It sucked

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: cjgallen

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
the first season rocked....then the second season well...lets just say it didn't

I tend to agree with this statement. I watched the entire first season, and it was pretty good. The plot went to hell after that, and even Miss Alba couldn't keep my attention. I wasn't motivated to watch anymore... but I was a little sad to hear it was being cancelled.

It started out as a very dark/serious show, then it got stupid, like, slipping on a banana peel stupid.

Too true... it's hard even for actors to take things like that seriously... the makeup was getting absurd and each episode in season 2 had someone looking more and more ridiculous (not that it wasn't believable). Then you have them doing some comic relief in the scripts to play off it a little bit. The writers for season 2 should be shot.

 

[frodrick]

Season 2 was a pain to watch. Every single time Joshua came on screen I wanted to shoot myself in the face. Or shoot him in the face, either way would have worked.

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: frodrick
Season 2 was a pain to watch. Every single time Joshua came on screen I wanted to shoot myself in the face. Or shoot him in the face, either way would have worked.

lol