Waiting for your wings, but you just got legs.

[luciazephyr]

The more I let myself think about it, the more angry I get over FOX canning Drive.

I get that this is a very competative world in television, but Jesus H. W. Christ. Let's think about this for a minute: what FOX shows are good? Can you name anything besides House? Does that constitute, to FOX execs, their threshold for good television? One show. That the entire network leans on like a crutch as it wobbles along.

I can't not compare this to Studio 60. I know some Sorkin fans are still sore about that cancellation, but, really, NBC gave S60 a lot of chances. It ran more than ten episodes when it's ratings hit below-par after the third episode. They kept falling and eventually NBC was forced to either yank or suffer a loss.

I've already forgiven NBC for S60. It just didn't catch on. And I don't think it held a candle to Sports Night and it was nothing next to West Wing.

So, that's the standard, right? CBS has modest but stable shows, NBC is patient, and ABC doesn't know when to pull the plug. I guess FOX fills the void of the network that gets some of the most awesome shows and fucks them over sideways.

It's not a niche I was aware we needed.

-Luce

Comments

[snoopypez.livejournal.com]

Well, NBC isn't quite as patient for all shows. :P They cancelled Andy Barker PI after three or four episodes. And the show only HAD six episodes to begin with! They didn't promote it well and all that, too.

Basically, NBC decided to try their hands at being FOX for a while. ;P

Not that that takes away the trueness of your post.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

True, there is an exception to every rule.

I wish Drive was FOX's exception. No, no. My sincerest apologies- I wish Firefly was the exception. What did someone say earlier this year- that had it not been bastardized and tossed aside, Firefly would be in it's fifth season by now?

That still hurts.