FOX Orders Pilot of "Locke & Key"
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So it's Event Horizon with a house?
If by two episodes you means 2+ seasons. I wish people would get it through their heads that Fox doesn't have the quick hook it used to have. Dollhouse and Sarah Connor both somehow got extra SEASONS when their ratings never deserved it. Most shows get canceled, deal with it. Fox does not have it in for Sci Fi.
Considering how they've managed their scifi properties over the past two decades, it's easy to see why people think that.
Then again, network TV is just a shitty place for scifi.
That's the thing, the people running Fox 20 years ago, are not the same people that are running Fox today. Corporations are not entities capably of independent thought. They merely reflect the decisions of people running the organization. The people around during Firefly are long gone. The more recent history of Fox has shown a willingness to try sci fi, and give it more time than its ratings deserve. And if you really want to talk about a two decade history, then you need to recognize the 9 seasons X-Files got.
Most shows get canceled. That's the nature of the business. Fox is willing to try more sci fi than most other networks, as a result Fox also cancels more sci fi. But at least they're trying. If you pitched the same show to CBS, it would never event get a pilot. It's time to stop blaming Fox for canceling sci fi, and instead thanking them for continuing to try new sci fi.
But network TV is the only place that has the money to do it right.
Both shows were Fox TV studio productions. Meaning the network would stand to gain more(dvd sales over time) as a whole if the extra season(s) caught ahold for both shows.
Look at Fringe, a WB tv studio production that Fox tv buys from them. WB gains by all future DVD sales, not Fox. Fox loses on the front end in declining ad rates. However, Fox has stubbonly kept it there since last season when it obvious Thursday was not the slot for it. It now moves it to Friday where cancellation is likely imminent.
This is a Dreamworks TV production....I give it 9 episodes.
And Fringe will run for at least three seasons and over 60 episodes, so even when the show in question isn't produced by Fox TV there's no reason to make a kneejerk prediction of cancellation after just a handful of episodes.
It's a co-production between DreamWorks and Fox TV. Right now it's just been ordered to pilot, but I think it's a good bet to be picked up as a series given the talent behind it. Beyond that it's way too early to predict how it'll do in the ratings and how long it might run for.
I am intrigued by the series, and will check it out. I fear Fox won't support it properly though.
The difference here is Fringe earned its second season based on its timeslot & ratings. Fox then using their poor management skills moved it to Thursdays. So, yeah its on them that its now a bubble show. Many were surprised they didn't cancel it last year.
This is the internet, what fun is it if we don't speculate off the tiniest bit of detail.
Dollhouse always felt like an attempt to make it up to Whedon. They cancelled his best show and then kept his worst one on life support.
The fact that they didn't cancel it last year even though its ratings had dropped substantially with the new time slot is more proof, though, that the current Fox management isn't as quick to cancel shows as past management teams.
I'll bend a bit to that but would you have kept it in a slot where it took a ratings/demo nosedive? That to me just continues to reek of mismanagement.
As fans we naturally want shows we like to be kept in safe time slots where they'll have a long run, but a network is looking to build a schedule and sometimes a show will get a great time slot, with a strong lead-in, in its first season and then it'll be moved to test whether it can sustain itself and strengthen the network's position in a much tougher time slot. At that point the show will sink or swim. That may not sit well with fans who see a show they like put in jeopardy, but there is a method behind such a scheduling strategy.