Posted by Vash:
Posted by J. Allen:
I can understand your point of view, and I don't like going and just slamming everything that is involved in ENT's cancellation, but UPN is a horrible horrible network. Look what wasn't cut: Kevin Hill? The Parkers?!
These shows remained, but ENT was cancelled. It still doesn't make sense. UPN's coverage of ENT was abysmal, and their advertising was almost non existent. I remember seeing one ENT ad. The night it came on television. And during ENT I would see 5 ads for the Parkers, 3 for Kevin Hill, Smackdown, etc.
So, while I understand what you mean, UPN gets my ire for now.
-J.
Well, they advertised it like crazy during seasons 1 and season 2. But it was still losing viewers, ratings, and advertising dollars.
So much so, in fact, that if it had been any other show but Star Trek, it would have been cancelled last year. But they gave it just one last chance to pull off a Hail Mary.
But by that time, most of the folks who had initially tuned in for season 1 were long gone.
And let's face it: how many TV shows to *you* go back to two or three years later, when during the first season you saw it and thought it was lousy? For me, tha answer to that question is "none". Manny was fighting an uphill battle to get back viewers who had long since moved on. And I don't think any amount of advertising would have brought them back, unless said advertising said "Star Trek Enterprise: Under New Management". Which is something B&B would never have allowed.
Even if UPN had advertised it, unless TPTB had given viewers something concrete that would make them want to give the show another chance after 3 years of not watching, it wouldn't have worked. And like I said...they would have never advertised the fact that they had a new showrunner in charge - their egos would never have allowed it.
Even though that was the ONE thing that brought *me* back.
So now its cancelled, forever 
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