Time travel TV shows for the 2016-17 season

[tharpdevenport]

Christopher:
They've even made an extra effort to keep shows that have struggled in the ratings, like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, and Fringe. Which is why it's so unfair that the "FOX kills genre shows" cliche is still so widely accepted even though it's been more than a decade since Firefly and the responsible execs left the company a long time ago.

Well, therein probably lies your confusion. You're citing one show and executives there/no longer there, as our source of complaints. This has been happening before, during and after "Firefly", so it's a continuous string of people, which has earned the reputation FOX has gotten over it. Yes, some things deserved to be cancelled and should never have been greenlite to begin with (I won't name anything since there's always somebody out there who lieks crap), but there have been a number of promising shows or good shows (such as "Firefly").

By the way, one lady who is no longer there (as I recall) said she was the one responsible for cancelling "Firefly". I watched her in a Youtube video go on stage at a convention and tell the fans that; she was not well recieved.


Now, some networks have tried to rectify this by -- on very rare occasions -- bringing back a series from cancellation years after-the-fact, such as: "Family Guy", "Futurama", and "Samurai Jack" (though not all shows are quite the same after they come back). Oh, and "Due South", but I think that switched networks.

 

[Christopher]

But, conversely, the people responsible for such choices are also gone. The man responsible for championing Fringe, Kevin Reilly (who'd also gone to bat for Friday Night Lights when he was at NBC) was fired a few years back, and a show he was wanting to protect at the time, one Almost Human, went right to the chopping block with him. These things ebb and flow (like ABC's more recent changeover seeing a lot of shuffling off of the channel's less viewed programs.)

Yup, which is why it's such a mistake to hold a grudge against a network for a decision that was made over a decade ago. Networks are not sentient entities. They're just places where people work, and those people come and go, just as in any other job.

On the whole, though, FOX has historically been one of the most SF-supportive networks ever, despite the preconceptions. The reason it's cancelled so many SF series is simply because it's bought so many more SF series than any other network, and cancellation is just something that happens to TV shows anywhere. The only other broadcast networks that have come close to buying a similarly high percentage of SF shows have been UPN and The CW. The network that's been most hostile to SF/fantasy over the past few decades has been CBS, which has bought far fewer genre shows in that interval than any of its competitors. But because it has so few genre shows, it gets much less attention, so paradoxically it does less to earn the hostility of fandom.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I liked that one better when it was called Voyagers!...

Beat me to it!