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ANGEL/FIREFLY Vet Minear Pleads: Force Your Smart Friends To Watch WONDERFALLS Thursday & Friday!!
Fuck Thursday’s “Apprentice”! Despite what TV Guide says, Fox is repeating the completely fucking brilliant “Wonderfalls” pilot Thursday at 9 p.m., and running its even better second episode Friday at 9 p.m. Tape these episodes!! Force your friends to watch them at gunpoint before it’s too late!!
Look! It’s Tim!
An open letter to the Grass Roots from Tim Minear, Executive Producer
of “Wonderfalls”:
Hi. My name is Tim Minear and I write television. Usually. Right now I
guess I’m writing SPAM. But I’m not asking you to donate to some shady
or even worthy cause. I’m not offering to enlarge any of your body
parts (though I haven’t ruled it out), and I make no claims of miraculous
cures for exotic diseases. What I can offer you is sixty minutes (really
about forty five, minus commercials) of quality entertainment if you do
one thing: turn on your TV to Fox this Friday night at nine.
For the last year or so I’ve been working with a bunch of really
talented people to make a new show for Fox called “Wonderfalls.” We’ve made
13 episodes so far, and I really want you to see them.
Some of the folks at the network are telling me that “Wonderfalls” is
the best reviewed new series they’ve had in ages -- maybe ever. I’m
currently sitting on a stack of raves from all over the country, from major
magazines, newspapers, small dailies, internet sites, etc. They seem to
be doing me no good. Also, uncomfortable because of the sitting.
The big brains at the network, while happy with the reviews, tell me
that good reviews don’t bring in an audience. Guess they were right. We
premiered on Friday, March 12th to less than great numbers.
There are several things stacking the odds against us. Our time slot,
charmingly known as “The Fox Friday Death Slot” is quickly living up to
its name. There has been much confusion and differing opinion over just
how to promote this odd little series. Maybe the unique charm, heart
and volcanic snark aren’t coming through. I dunno. Fact is, I have no
power over network promotion, I can’t force Fox to air “Wonderfalls” on
Monday nights, I don’t have a Nielsen box or know anyone who does.
But I do have this keyboard, my cable-modem and a relationship with
genre fans all over the world because of the internet. All of the shows
I’ve worked on in the last several years have had loyal internet
followings. From “Lois and Clark” to “The X-Files,” from “Angel” to the
short-lived but much-loved “Firefly.” Ever since I’ve been associated with
genre television I’ve had the extreme honor and pleasure (and sometimes
hair-pulling madness) of interacting with fans of these shows via the
internet. You are the most dedicated, passionate and, frankly, smartest
fans around.
And I’m turning to you now because I believe you’re a huge untapped
resource.
I know that every one of you is connected to many others that I can’t
reach. If you can give a hand here, you might be keeping us afloat long
enough for us to catch the tide. Worth a shot, anyway.
I know the network wants this show to work. They’re willing for it to
work. And if there’s any way that my plea now will help Friday’s numbers
tick up just a touch, I think that would be a tremendous sign to them.
The next new episode of “Wonderfalls” airs Friday, March 19th at 9:00pm
on Fox. Please tune in and mention it to someone else. Preferably
someone with a Nielsen box.
So anyway, I thought I’d mention it. Oh, also, the network is going to
repeat our pilot on Thursday, March 18th at 9:00pm after “Tru Calling.”
So if you missed it last Friday, here’s your chance to catch it.
Thanks --
Sincerely,
Tim Minear
PS - I know the conventional wisdom says that good reviews don’t mean
anything to potential viewers, but here’s a taste of them anyway:
TV GUIDE (3/13-19), Matt Roush
“Ironic and romantic, WONDERFALLS is a true original. Surrender to its
charms.”
PEOPLE (3/22), Terry Kelleher
“The reason to watch WONDERFALLS is Dhavernas. With a star like this, a
series doesn’t really need a gimmick.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (3/19), Ken Tucker
"A-" “...a revelation - a blessing, even.... Each of the four episodes
I’ve seen is better than the one preceding it.”
USA TODAY (3/12), Robert Bianco
"WONDERFALLS is such an unexpected treat”
LOS ANGELES TIMES (3/12), Robert Lloyd
“WONDERFALLS is so well done, so fresh and unpredictable, and so little
in thrall to conventional virtues as to make the weary reviewer
prostrate with joy... everything clicks here”
NEW YORK TIMES (3/12), Virginia Hefferman
“Beautifully shot and written with wit... Dhavernas is delightful.”
NEWSDAY (3/12), Noel Holston
“the best pilot of the 2003-2004 season... Dhavernas is a find, a
marvelously understated comic actress and her supporting cast is impeccable”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE (3/12), Steve Johnson
“the series looks and feels like nothing else on television... it all
remains, almost magically, in balance, a delicate, roadside-attraction
wonderland where mysteries of the cosmos, lowbrow popular culture,
family dysfunction, longing and, mostly humor can coexist.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (3/12), Tim Goodman
“unquestionably the best new drama series of the 2003-04 season... this
is your time to love TV”
WASHINGTON POST (3/12), Tom Shales
“WONDERFALLS is wonderful... a prime example of risk-taking
originality, a brassy blast of fresh air any way you look at it.”
BOSTON HERALD (3/12), Amy Amatangelo
“Executive producers Todd Holland, Tim Minear and Bryan Fuller have
created a show unlike any other on television.”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (3/12), John Doyle
”WONDERFALLS is the best new drama in ages... Caroline Dhavernas is
impeccable”
US WEEKLY – John Griffiths
“The writing is deliriously clever, the plots strangely Zen and
uplifting, and Dhavernas is beyond winning as the loser-stamped Jaye. A fun,
wild free fall."
POPGURLS - Allyson A Popgurl
"...get together with some friends, order in some Chinese, watch
Wonderfalls at 9pm on FOX this Friday, and then go out to your favorite dive
bar and snark with each other. Make it a regular Friday thing. You'll
be happier for it."Oh, and there’s Ain’t It Cool: Coaxial News:
Watch “Wonderfalls”!! Herc says it’s the season’s best new show!! 9 p.m. Fridays!! Fox!!
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It is the last vestige of fiction-tv that is good. I have seen four episodes and they are all brilliant.
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The pilot, the encore presentation of the pilot, the 2nd episode.. all air at 1:30AM in the Twin Cities. High-school sports tourneys take prescedence here in MN. I don't understand that, but I accept it. But I do wonder if the suits at Fox understand that the show cannot build an audience in the Twin Cities right now. Does your market do things like this? There must be more markets that behave like this. Anyway, I'm sure it's too late for any change this year, but I am writing the program manager at KMSP (the Fox affiliate in the Twin Cities) asking her/him these same questions. http://www.kmsp.com/home/contact_us/ I hope "Wonderfalls" gets it's chance.
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so I can't help. If someone can tell me where to download wonderfalls I'll watch it. And I'll watch it with the commercials. I'll even take notes on each commercial and buy 1 item from one of the commercials. 2 if I really like it. I AM in the market for a new car...
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Such as...It's All Relative, Two and Half Men, Survivor, Class Reunion, The Apprentice, Charmed, One Tree Hill, Stargate SG 1, Enterprise...? What else. Whedon and Company maybe held in high regard here, but it's only because they've got a talent behind them. So one said that cable networks like HBO and Showtime are great because it's returned the power to the writers. Network TV shuns writers of any talent, because it would give them freedom to write intelligent stories that does not assume it's audience is dumb as dirt (this would also mean no People Choice Award for Two and Half Men as favorite new comedy show. I challenge anyone to find something even remotely funny in the program). Series like Wonderfalls (which is close to Dead Like Me the way Fuller wanted to do the show before some suit said this should be more like Touched by an Angel) shine because the writing assumes it's viewers have a brain, they know how to use it and are willing to become involved in characters that break from the TV norm. Scrubs is another show that is abused, Firefly was too, Twin Peaks reminds me of what can happen when a network allows a creative team a chance to break the boundries of the typical cop genre created 60 years ago (but it's also a prime example of what happens when the bean counters start crunching numbers. It forced the show to fit in. It died). American Gothic was another creative show that left long before it should've. The biggest issue here, as I see it, is there are boat load of Americans (who appear to be Neilson viewers) who don't understand satire. They know funny. I mean Full House didn't last for 8 fucking seasons because it was unfunny (Right?). Satire is astute humor, clever and sly. And it's hard to pull off. Drama, my friends, is easy. Humor -with the exception of crude humor seen every day on FOXNEWS and Good Morning Miami - is very difficult. TV should welcome the different but it should not be all predictable fluff. Writing is very important to shows like the Sapranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under and The L Word. That's what makes them so briliant. AICN may have a hard on for ME productions and products produced by people associated with it, but that's because there is TALENT there. A wellspring of individuals who can think, walk and talk to a different tune. Network TV is out to crush these people, because after all, money is more important than anything else in the world.
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I'll watch Wonderfalls, if you'll get 20 million people to watch every airing of "Angel" on WB, TNT, local affiliates, buy all the DVD's, etc. (Actually, I'll probably watch Wonderfalls anyway, or record it while i'm watching Touching Evil).
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max, find another site. I forbid you to read this one ever again
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I was just thinking, if all of these reality shows were off the air right now, and there were more shows as good as Wonderfalls (#1 stupid thing people do: if it's different aka origonal, it's bad.), would the ratings be as high? Would the people that watch these shows because they like them and not just because they have nothing better to do retreat to some other medium with junk like that? Or would they realize that the "bean counters" tricked them into thinking they were as stupid as they (bean men) thought they were, and remember that they had brains and that all of these "bad" (different=bad) shows were as great as the minority said they were? Hmm... I don't know. People ARE stupid so... I'm guessing that's not going to happen any time soon. This is a longer post than I thought. Anyways, keep up the good work Tim, you're on my list of creative peeps so I can watch out for anything new you're involved in.
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Good argument, but I would take from your criticism that you are not a fan of TV at all since most shows seem to be victim of what you accuse Wonderfall of being. Therefore, it makes me wonder why you care at all to read posts in the TV section of an entertainment site. Wouldn't everything be below your standards? And if they aren't, then I feel you probably don't practice what you preach and aren't the discerning viewer you pretend to be. As far as David Mamet only good at writing plays......now I know you aren't a true movie fan either, and you must be a little off in the head since yet again for some reason you are visiting and posting on an Movie/TV news site. Why bother coming to a forum for mediums you have so much disdain for? Oh you're lonely and in desperate need of attention. Then it's alright. I forgive you. :)
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This show is awesome. I'm sure it's destined for failure, since it's good and not on HBO or Showtime, but the pilot was a lot better than the first two Soprano's this season.
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Before you settle into your comfy chair to watch the WB or other shows, SAVE HOWARD STERN. Write a letter to the FCC, write to your local congressman, call in to your local Stern broadcaster to express support. SAVE HOWARD STERN. There's nothing like a morning with Howard, Robin, Artie, Fred, Baba Booey, Chauncie, Crazy Cabbie, and the others. SAVE HOWARD STERN. Notch out.
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I mean I've been watching this happen for years now, especially on FOX but it never ceases to amaze me. I'll watch it and recommend to my geeky friends but since none of us own Neilsen boxes I don't see this help.
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You watched the show because a popular website told you to? Last time I did something because someone told me to (in terms of entertainment) was in junior high. Though I guess you could say something like: "Herc has a rep of pointing out good shows, so I decided to check it out." But it seems like you don't like AICN because Herc supports Joss and co. so that can't be it. Anyways, what makes this a "high school" show demographic? There are no super model teenagers blurting out dialogue, which you know they only understand three words of (dawsons creek anyone?). So you're saying because the jokes are fast paced and the humor is quick and witty and not like a sitcom that tells the same jokes over and over it's overwritten and the writers try too hard? (BTW I don't think Tim wrote the pilot.) I downloaded the pilot a couple weeks ago off of a site I won't name because peeps tend to take advantage of free content and not watch the shows when they air, therefore not giving them ratings. I was in a piss poor mood when I opened up divx and pressed the play button. Usualy when I'm in a crapy mood and watch something, I tend to not give it a chance. Within the first minute I forgot what the hell I was mad at and laughed my ass off for 45 minutes. So now I'm a loyal follower, going to watch on tv, download the eps to watch whenever, and buy the dvd when they pull a firefly after it inevitably (I'm REALY hoping it doesn't) gets cancled. Okay now I'm rambling.
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So watch while you can. Honestly I can see why the coveted male demographic is leaving tv in droves. Most shows are pretty bad and those that are interesting are cancelled either before they catch their stride or in the middle of it. Yeah, I can try to catch a good show when networks move it back and forth on the schedule, take it off the air for weeks, etc. OR I can watch DVD's or play PS2/XBOX anytime I want? Fuck it. Nobody I know really catches more than 2 or 3 shows regularly. And we all know only assholes watch reality tv.
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Mar 17, 2004 8:48:42 AM CST
All the same praise heaped on this show was heaped on Farscape,
by stonemonkey
after one ratings dip, then they chalk it up to increasing production costs and cancel it when it was(and still is) the best Sci-Fi show on TV/cable. Then, the turncoats at Sci-Fo greenlight not only a Tremors series, but a re-imagined Galactica mini series and continue to pump out the cancelled(with good reason)before SG-1. Tremors was cancelled, SG-1 may be next(finally), a whole season of Galactica has been ordered, yet our beloved Farscape is silently staging a comeback. If Sci-Fi doesn't get the FS mini-series it is deservedly so. Backstabbers and spin doctors, all of them.
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...It's getting old already, who cares... knock it the fuck off, already!
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the premiere episode was somewhat entertaining at first, but then they introduced a talking monkey next to a black psychologist? is this what counts as a smart & witty TV show?
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...is fun and cute. Joan of Arcadia (great episode this week) is also fantastic. Why do you people act as though it is such an undertaking to follow a show? You make it out to be some huge commitment. In the era of Tivo, VCRs and newsgroups, missing an episode is just plain negligent.
There is nothing we can do to increase ratings, because they only give nielson boxes to assholes. Oh, wait a minute, that means the majority of you must have them. BAM! see what I did there? the ol' switcheroo.
Fuck you.
Best lines (delivery-wise):
"Your voice just got loud"
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Mar 17, 2004 12:18:34 PM CST
Really, the way to keep shows on the air is to appeal to the adv
by mortsleam
Someone up there said they'd take notes on the commericials. That's an excellent idea. Just jot down every product you see during the commercials, then write THEM a letter saying how much you enjoyed seeing their commercial during the show and how it made you want to buy their product. I GUARANTEE that the advertisers will pump more money into that show, and the network will invest more care in that show. Look how product boycotts by those PMRC bitches almost succeeded in censoring shows in the late 80's. Think of this as an Anti-Boycott. What the hell does it take to get a Nielsen box, anyway? Just once I want to see the Chappelle Show win the number one spot for a week. I'm A Nielsen Favorite, Bitch!
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I watched this last friday. It was an ok show. Not the best, but it was mildly amusing. And that's the lower denominator of it. I will watch more and give the chance to let the show grow on me. It was funny, but I didn't expect this show to be a comedy. I thought it'd be close to "Joan of Arcadia" without the God angle. The thing that seperates this from "Joan" is that "Joan" had good intentions and has laughs that just appear. While "Wonderfalls" kind of milks it's laughter, even forcing it upon the audience. Sometimes it works, sometimes it makes you roll your eyes. I do feel "Wonderfalls" is on the same level of play as "Arrested Development." However "Arrested" is not really great comedy, the whole show is forced, the characters soulless, and every situation doesn't connect as easily (with me especially).
However "Wonderfalls" is a neat little show, which I hope can blossom into something decent. We all know first seasons are rocky ones, maybe this show can get better with time. I'll at least give it a few more episodes, before I decide to pledge my allegence elsewhere on Fridays at 9 pm. -
I'll watch your damn show if it makes you happy. Or I'll at least leave the TV on that channel.
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Then again, the networks weren't so quick to pull the trigger on nonperformers in 1992.
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TIMMMMAY!
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Mar 17, 2004 1:43:06 PM CST
Friday's a bad slot and I ain't missn apprentice. Anyone got a b
by tall_boy
I checked Suprnova but couldn't find it that well.
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Now if a show doesn't become an overnight sensation, the networks can esily replace it with cheap, crappy reality television (no offense to the Apprentice fan above). Sadly, Wonderfalls looks like it may become the next of TV Guide's "Best Show You're not Watching" titleholders, before being replaced by "The Littlest Average Millionaire Apprentice on Paradise Island's High School Reunion". Too bad all the Buffyverse fans who'd probably support Wonderfalls with a passion, simply due to Minear's involvement, are too busy with various Save Angel campaigns. (not that they should stop, Angel should not die before it's time). On the other hand, pretty soon I'll have plenty of time to read a book.
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...I really liked Wonderfalls. I don't think I'm immature or stupid, Max. Who pissed in your Post Toasties, man? This is NOT a show for everyone. Like Twin Peaks. Or Dead Like Me. I LOVE Steve Buscemi's stuff, but I was underwhelmed with last week's Sopranos. Does that mean I'll never watch him or that show again? Hell, no. I loved Jennifer Lopez in Out Of Sight. Don't buy her music, download naked pictures of her, or have any desire to know who she's screwing this week. Doesn't mean I don't like her work in the one movie. Wonderfalls is good stuff. May not be great, but it's too soon to say.
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in that matter fuck fox as well. The only show I watch on fox is ... I guess I don't watch any fox anymore. But I did watch Firefly, John Doe (when it was after firefly), stan hooper, grounded for life (still watch that, thanks wb), I watched 24 the last couple years but I don't watch that anymore. SOOO not only has wonderfalls got to be good to get me to watch, it has to be DAMN good to get me to watch FOX. Go blow yourselfs fox.
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...considering that one of the happy endings engineered by the talking objects was that two lesbians found each other...
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NA NA NA NA...NA NA NA NA...HEY HEY HEY ...GOODBYE...(by the way..im the little red lion singing that)...sorry folks..we(wonderfalls) sucked....
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I'd just like to say that I've been a huge fan of just about everything Tim Minear has ever done, and this is by far the funniest of his works. When I first heard about the premise of the show, I was ready to sign off on it right then, right there. Then someone mentiond Tim Minear was behind it and well...I watched it on TV, and twice on my ReplayTV (just like TiVo) I've told EVERYONE about it, but to little luck, as no one I know has a nielson box. The point I'm really trying to make is this, the people at Fox are dipshits. They pump out reality TV like a liposuction machine sucks the fat out a three ton fat chick. All I'm saying is that Wonderfalls deserves to be on a network that will give it a god-damned chance, unlike fox, which has doomed so many of my favorite shows.
Firefly
Family Guy
Futurama
Undeclared
Firefly (it was that good damnit)
and oh so many more.
P.S. What the FUCK is up with fox and continuity issues?!?!? Apparently this Friday's episode of Wonderfalls is episode 11?!?! What the FUCK? Don't they realize that kills a lot of the sizzle to the story? I mean, if I see that Poor Bitch has a broken arm or something....what the hell? That was pretty stupid...That last statement, I just love that there is a character named Poor Bitch.
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Dear Tim,
I'll make you a real deal. I promise to watch, nay, tivo every episode (including reruns) of wonderfalls, PLUS coerce all of my friends and family to watch - and I know a lot of people whom I can lord all sorts of blackmail over. Your part of the bargain? In return for keeping your show on the air, hire me to work as a writer's assistant (or other entry level grunt position) on your production. Sounds fair to me.
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Nope, not in high school. And no, I don't think most of the people that say they like this show are mentaly immature or whatever you said. It's a good show, that's all. And don't feel like flaming and saying you're a loser, butch, ugly, a bum, lonely, ect. because I don't know you. You don't like the show, big deal. Hopefully other peeps will see how good this show is. Anyways, sorry for offending you, not my intent. Just venting my anger that crap shows stay on the air while quality shows with good writers get cancled before the season is over because people don't give them a chance/network gives them crappy time slots.
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all the people who are going to watch sci fi shows are at home on a Friday night anyway. I wouldn't watch wonderfalls because its another retread of throw a female lead into a sitcom because its trendy -
Can't help but notice that you said you went to college. So therefore you think you're smarter or your opinion matters more than people who didn't? And the junior prom crack, can't help but think you're reflecting on something that happened to you. Hope you can move on from that. Hey, I guess I threw out that whole thing about not wanting to flame your ass. Though your flame was better, props. Seems like you have alot of experiance talking sh*t to people you can hide behind a computer from.
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You obviously didn't see the episode where the maid's nubile 16 year old daughter was hanging around the house. The scene where they try to ignore her while she's washing windows was riotously funny.
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...and in your heart you know I'm right!
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it's a shame fux doesnt support shows like this.
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Check it out:
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Or try this:
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I am literally flabbergasted at that rave review from..."US Weekly". Sory Tim, I love Firefly, but you're going to have to do better than a review from America's worst mainstream gossip magazine. Those people could give a glowing review of pussy and chances are I wouldn't believe them.
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I'm not going to lie, your timeslot IS death. I wanted to catch WF last Friday, but, well it was Friday, I was out, I forgot. Seeing as I would have never known it was on tonight without this article, I probably would have forgotten again tomorrow and so on.
But I did catch it tonight, and I assure you my VCR is now set weekly. This is the best comedy FOX has had since Undeclared, though I hope you don't share it's fate. It's a clever show, and yes, I am, in fact, in love with Caroline Dhavernas now, but not only because she's gorgeous, but becasue you've created a character for her to play that I already care about.
(And the View-Master dissolves are worth sitting down for this alone.)
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I saw the pilot and I'll surely be watching as long as it's on. But this is Friday nights on Fox, which says to me that no matter how good the show gets, it won't stick around. It would be nice if Fox gave their best shows a better night or realized they just aren't going to get better numbers on that night no matter what, but I doubt it. Still, I'm hoping this doesn't go the way of Firefly or John Doe or Dark Angel or Boston Public, etc
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was wonderfalls fabulous? no. was it entertaining and amusing? yes, so i will keep watching (for all the good it will do) since it is much, much better than most of the drek currently on fox and the other networks. the network execs had better sit up and take notice of the dire straits that tv is in. each season we watch fewer and fewer shows, and i bet our family is not the only one doing this.
p.s. angel IS fabulous and deserves 2 more years
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Mar 20, 2004 12:26:10 PM CST
Here's what I love: For the entire run of Farscape, you sorry bi
by phantom einstein
"Boo-hoo! Firefly's off the air and I never watched it!" Why don't you dipshits get pro-fucking-active for once, and watch a show *before* it gets cancelled? Then you don't have to run a "Save Wonderfalls!" internet email campaign, or buy newspaper ads and shit!
Having said that, yeah . . . fucking Fox. There's nothing to be done with Fox. Everybody knows there's no point in getting behind a Fox show. Stop making development deals with Fox, they want the shows to tank so they can have tax write-offs. -
Does anyone actually know somebody who's in a "Nielsen Household"? Or is the infamous "Nielsen Box" just an industry fabrication. Merely part of some conspiracy designed to reward the major networks with falsely high ratings for cheap and easily mass-produced reality shows, so that they can make huge profits off of inflated advertising rates. All the while, they never have to expensively renegotiate the contracts of a scripted show's castmembers for another season's work. I firmly believe that these boxes are tools of Satan/TV Network Executives (same difference), and can't possibly give an accurate measurement of the public's viewing habits. The sampling of actual boxes scattered among the people is infinitesimal (a few thousand or less) compared with the over two-hundred million available TV viewers in America. Maybe if the network head honchos weren't so obsessed with the instantaneous Nielsen ratings success of a show, they'd have some faith in the quality of the work, giving it time to find an audience. Instead, they try to bury it in a weak time slot mid-season - a.l.a. "Wonderfalls". After having seen the first two "Wonderfalls" episodes, I thoroughly agree with the numerous rave reviews that I've read about it. It's definitely the best new show that I've seen this season. I enjoyed the main heroine precisely because she is so completely unlikable in a TV landscape of saccharine characters, and the snappy, smart dialogue dripping with mean-spirited sarcasm, contained more laughs than 99 percent of the sitcoms airing today. I firmly believe that this is a quality program, with a lot of growth potential, and it should earn a place in the FOX line-up based on the sheer amount of critical acclaim alone. However, what counts is the viewers' ability to purchase the products being sold during the show's commercials. From a demographics standpoint, I have at least a half-dozen friends and family members (not including chat-buddies) that equally enjoy the show, ranging in age from 25 to 40, and we're all well-educated with good jobs and plenty of disposable income to spend on the show's advertisers. Sadly, with the advent of cheap, cookie-cutter reality programming, it's apparently not worth it for a network to spend money developing a show for the long term. Thank goodness today's TV executives weren't around during the atrociously rated opening few years of two little NBC comedies that eventually, with time and support, became halfway decent shows for the network. They were "Cheers" and "Seinfeld". I pray that the FOX network wises-up and gives "Wonderfalls" the same chance to grow as a series over the course of a second complete season in the fall, bucking the current cancellation-happy trend that claimed "Angel" at the WB. Some executive finally has to have the guts to say, "NIELSEN's BE DAMNED - THIS IS A QUALITY SHOW!!!"
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once i was phoned by the neilson company and asked if i wanted to take part in a television survey. i said sure and they mailed me a booklet to record my viewing habits. maybe the box is a myth. networks need to remember that even potential genre shows still need a fair chance at finding their cult audience and that shifting around time slots or viewing nights along with unannounced hiatuses will be disastrous for ANY show. fox's motto should be "we cancel after 3 or 4 outings." it's almost getting to be a joke.
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