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Grim
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and to think if it were played an hour or 2 later it would be like number 60 something or lower even!
Meh this is logic! Fox listening to Logic! HA!
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ROBOTRON
Crustacean
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FOX must order more shows and keep it on the air.... Or I will destroy!
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CDA
Crustacean
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There probably is some logic, but you have to operate on the proper premises. What matters is how profitable a show is. If an episode of Cops takes a couple hundred dollars to produce and Futurama takes a few hundred thousand, and both get nearly exactly the same amount of ad revenue because their ratings are practically equal, Fox will go with Cops.
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Mytoman
Crustacean
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Well the current "we want real life shows" is just getting easy cash on Fox but this genre is getting crowded, week after week there is now type os show and eventually people will be bored to that crap.
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Erdrik
Professor
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Originally posted by LittleMiss: .... The last two episodes of Joe Millionaire made me want to hurl! ... You actualy watched Joe Millionaire?!?! Blech!
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Erdrik
Professor
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Gasp! Blasphamy!!
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Grim
Professor
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Well to start with, they dont conform to what they think is the TV norm, and what people wanna see.
Secondly...
I think they want Matt Groening to get a hair cut or something
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Mytoman
Crustacean
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I think fox should be renamed to Bat. They are blood sucking freaks instead something what presents smart animal.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Carbito: What does Fox have against Matt and David X? Matt more or less threw the FOX "experts" out of his office, when they wanted to change things in the Futurama scripts. It was his way, or no way! I don't think FOX ever forgave Matt for doing that. Just a theory.
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CyberKnight
Urban Legend
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I've always felt it was because of a total lack of patience. Shows that don't become "instant" hits nowadays are scrapped. In the case of Futurama, they thought the show would withstand being moved about (but not telling anyone) and frequent pre-emption (which I still believe should be declared a violation of the Sales act (mis-representation ). I still wonder if Futurama on Sky is a bigger hit for them than for FOX (relatively speaking). Another tactic Sky employ is to rotate Malcolm and Futurama every six months or so. BTW, does anyone know what Sky's "official" relation to FOX is? An affiliate, a rival network or sibling?
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Baddblood
Crustacean
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I think it boils down to Fox not having complete control over Futurama... Buh, it's time to play the waiting game.
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FilthyCrab
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by Carbito: What does Fox have against Matt and David X? Matt and David X cut a deal with FOX that gave them total creative control of the series. FOX has wanted to meddle and Matt and David X can just point to their contract and say screw off, you promissed us full control. Unfortunately FOX has ultimate control because they can ensure the series is killed off, which is what we are seeing now. Looks like Matt and David X won the battle, but the war goes to FOX at this point. ::head explodes from the pent-up rage::
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