Firefly timeslots - did it ever get the opportunity to be a success? by Leanna

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Firefly timeslots - did it ever get the opportunity to be a success?

POSTED BY: LEANNA
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 05:14
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:12 PM

i don't know how resonable an hour it was shown anywhere else, but in OZ it was on at 11:30 at night - i never knew until my boyfriend told me it was actually on.

which is why i ask the question, what are your opinions of networks not giving it a chance?

Ah, the pitter-patter of tiny feet in combat boots. Shut up!!

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:06 PM

TLACOOK

Leanna, by the time it was shown in Oz it had already been cancelled and pretty much given up on in the US. Production had stopped and no other network decided to pick it up.

We can talk for hours about how it was mishandled here in the US but, you actually got all the episodes. All of the episodes still have not been broadcast in the US. Just in the rest of the world.

Does that seem right to you?

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:09 PM

LEANNA

i did hear that it was cancelled before it got here - i should have mentioned that. but i was just wondering if it showed at a reasonable hour anywhere. i didn't think all eps where shown here.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:45 PM

TLACOOK

I am pretty sure they were. There wasn't all that many to start with...

We didn't get to see:

Trash
Heart of Gold and
The Message

until the DVD.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:33 AM

RUTHIE

As far as I can gather, the UK was the only place where Firefly was given a REAL chance on it's first showing.
It was shown on Sci Fi, a Satelite channel that only som people recieve, but they treated it WELL. It was shown in the right order, all episodes, Serenity first.

Serenity had it's 2 parts shown together one evening (8 and 9 pm, Monday), then repeated twice later in the week (think it was 10 and 11 Thursday, and 8 and 9 Sunday).
The next week, Serenity part 2 was shown at 8 on Monday, and TTJ at 9. TTJ was then repeated three times, finally at 8 the next Monday, followed by the next new ep.

This pattern was repeated throughout the series.

I don't think that it's any coincidence that there are a LOT of British Browncoats.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:14 AM

SAMWIBATT

Now we know why they shuffled Firefly all over and cancelled it just when it was getting rolling - female fickleness.

link found on Whedonesque:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05054/461702.stm

Quote:

"The explosion of this show on DVD proved to me that it had an enormous fan base that wanted more," says Gail Berman, Fox's president of entertainment. Was she wrong to cancel it in the first place? "Changing her mind is, indeed, a woman's prerogative," she says.

Ms. Berman is talking about "Family Guy" here, but it could just as easily be "Firefly". Don't even get me started on how dumb and sexist this sounds. This has to be out of context - but then again, maybe Ms. Berman is enough of a jerk to fall back on an excuse like that for Fox's seemingly random programming decisions.

Grrr.

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