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"Strange World" pulled from ABC schedule !!!
Glen here...
Well folks, the headline pretty much says it all.
Effective immediately, ABC has "pulled" Howard Gordon's atmospheric science fiction thriller
Strange World from the air - after broadcasting only three of thirteen episodes.
How long will the series be gone? The simple answer I received from my source was:
"indefinitely".
No word on whether ABC intends to air the series' remaining 10 episodes, or if the series could
move to another outlet (network).
((sigh))
Ironically, Strange World was advertised
as a "limited run series" by ABC. I'm guessing
Gordon, Fox, etc. didn't have in mind this
limited a run.
More as story develops...
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I watched the premier episode and barely made it through it. I watched bits and pieces of the next two but I couldn't help flipping over to ST:TNG reruns on another station. Sorry, but this show just wasn't compelling for me. Also, read today's (3/17) TV article in the Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com). Apparently, no one was watching this show. Hopefully, ABC runs it as a summer series and it picks up enough interest to at least survive a complete run.
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Okay... Does this bother anyone else that a Network like this will start a show and shut it down after a limited run of a limited run. First TNT pissed me off by pulling Crusade and then ABC went and yanked half of it's lineup. I understand that ABC doesn't have any good available timeslots but they'll never have any if they don't allow shows to develop a fan base. I think ABC is trying to create a viewership out of teasing us. Let's face it, they don't have anything worth watching anymore and the few shows they have are slowing going off the air (Home Improvement)... Does anyone have an email address to ABC that we can complain about their overall lack of BALLS!
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...if I were watching anything else on the network. I sort of liked Maximum Bob and Fantasy Island, but not enough to watch regularly; I can't remember the last ABC series I actually liked before that. I'm still not sure the show would have (or should have) made it in the long run, but damn near any show deserves more of a chance that this.
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Not every show deserves more of a chance than this... IMHO, that ER IN SPACE show
should not have been aired through to the end of the pilot episode. Interrupting it
at the half-hour and running a test pattern would have been more entertaining.
Anyway, I actually caught this show last night and can honestly say I won't miss it ever again.
Yes, I know it might not be on ever again, I'm saying it won't be missed by me. I do mourn the passing of Fantasy Island. Bad shows die, but good ones do too. Snif. -
this reaks of "Mercy Point"ism. I actually missed the first episode on Monday and I fell asleep through it Tuesday (I guess having the "ER" timeslot wasnt such a big help after all) nd wasnt home Last night....bad timing? Was hoping to catch it later on....the Nelson Ratings should be put under, man we ALL know that system of rating shows is obsolete and OLD! Can anyone help me organize a FIGHT THE NELSON RATINGS website? The system doesnt work AT ALL and this shows it!!
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I'm really surprised. Shows need time to grow, to build an audience. How long was XF on before it went big? Two years? I didn't see any ads for this show; did they even advertise at all? I think what happened here is, ABC's current image of light fluffy shows didn't jibe with SW. Ads on ABC didn't reach a compatible audience, execs were worried about confusing viewers, etc. Does anyone know if this is it for the series? It's made by FOX, yes? It seems like this could have a home on FOX, or perhaps UPN or a cable outlet. If nothing else, I doubt FOX wants to waste the 10 unaired episodes they've produced. (Or do they still get paid for them?) Does anyone have any info on this? I'd love to see a future for the series, but even barring that I'd like to see what's been filmed.
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What scifi TV needs is more commercial tie-ins. I think ABC tried to do one on the terrible "humanity is threatened by a new homonid species" show they had on last year. I remember that every computer on that show was a Compaq and they had a run-of-the-mill Compaq PC doing incredible stuff. In the premier they had a DeskPro (Pentium II) analyse an entire strand of unknown DNA down to the molecular level in about five minutes. When I saw this, I expected that Compaq would heavily advertise on the show. That didn't happen, but maybe it should. OK, here's the scenario. Some creative genius produces a terrific but underappreciated scifi series set in the 25th century. Part on the back story is that way back at the end of the 20th century, every PC in the world was destroyed by the Y2K bug, but all the MACs survived. This wouldn't really effect the story line in the 25th century and every once in a while they could mention things like the captain went to Steve Jobs Elementary School. Now, in my fantasy, Apple advertises heavily on this show but doesn't mess with the creative vision. The show runs for a full season because Apple will not pull their ads and whatever channel is showing this series is guaranteed to make money. I know this sounds more like a plot from Max Headroom than like a good idea, but I just thought I'ld present it to all of you.
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Were Maximum Bob, Fantasy Island, and Brimstone. All gone. Haven't seen Sports Night but it seems to be teetering on the brink. And, yes, I have to mention what could easily have become my favourite show, but which for some reason no one else mentioned, the brilliant "CUPID". Cupid Cupid Cupid. Just had to mention it. I could have done without any of the above mentioned shows, but killing Cupid makes ABC the most idiotic bunch of...that show had the advertising, the word of mouth, the quality, the cult fan base, to be a huge hit if they'd nurtured it. I'm also pissed off that the creators immediately folded up their chair and left, instead of shifting it to another net. Damn, when are TV execs going to realize that, to have a hit show, you have to keep somethign on the air? "Ally McBeal" is a fluke. Most low-rated cult shows go on to make a rather ginormous amount of money if they're allowed to keep on..."Star Trek"? "Seinfeld"? "The Simpsons"? "The X-Files"? The 4 most profitable shows ever, all of them flops for the first little while. I don't know why I'm bothering to type this, everyone reading this knows it. It's ABC that needs to read it. I hope they go under soon and are replaced with a network that actually has an attention span.
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Dear Richard Hatch, take a look at this "limited run" show...it died after 3 episodes. if you make BATTLESTAR GALACTICA you should just FORGET THE TV Networks ....ALL OF EM! Forget ABC and CBS and TNT and FOX and NBC and TBS and the SCI/FI channel. FORGET THEM ALL, Richard. Get Universal to back half a season. Let them SEE the product, then get them to BACK the OTHER half of the season...then release all 26 episodes DIRECT TO VIDEO!!!! Video sales of New BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episodes produced cheap and VHS and DVD would work. Combined with merchandising of Posters and action figures and I think you could do make your money back over the long term!!!!
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While it is convinient to dump on ABC, as people have mentioned they have quite a few good shows. The Practice, Dharma and Greg, SportsNight, and so forth. I tend to think that Strange World was so horrible that I couldn't believe they broadcast it in the first place. Are there shows that should have been given a change? Yes. I think both Cupid and Fantasy Island were interesting and could have been allowed to grow an audience - especailly Cupid that was really growing on me the times I watched it. Yeah they've made some stupid choices. I still can't forgive them for putting Twin Peaks on Saturdays, but then to be fair the second season of Twin Peaks went downhill while Lynch was working on Wild at Heart. But hey, Lynch is coming back to ABC and to me that is more than enough to praise ABC. They even put all the episodes of Lynch's second show about that radio station on when that was a pretty poor mess. So give them a break.
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ABC should just blow a bunch of money on pilots each year, then kill them all and just rerun Home Improvement 24/7. I don't know about you, but that homespun antics of Tim the toolman just slay me, and that Jonathan Taylor Thomas...be still my beating heart. I love the show so much, I don't even want to see neighbor guy's face. That would ruin it, don't you think? I sure hope it goes another season.
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Too bad. Can't say I loved the show, but I was getting to like it. Back to Total Recall on Tuesday nights. At least there's a Canadian network (Global) carrying Cupid on Monday nights, so I can see the ones I missed before I noticed the show (which was the last episode, actually).
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Bad shows die quickly , great shows rarely see a second season. I enjoy a good sci fi show, but this show is really lacking a good pace that some other shows have. Fantasy Island and Cupid were more deserving a second season or extension if any ABC show deserves another shot. The shows Ive been very disappointed to see cancelled.....American Gothic......Nightmare Cafe......Golden Years.......Briscoe County Jr.........R. I. P. to each and every one of them, including Strange World
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Cripes, you people have the attention span of fruitflies! We went from Strange World to Battlestar Galactica to Compaq tie -ins all in a matter of minutes! What the hell?! Maybe *THAT'S* why smart shows can't stay on the air and why networks yank them. Maybe the networks know that the American people have become a nation addled by the hollow instant gratification of MTV, Baywatch and Michael Bay movies -- a nation so impatient that the news must be condensed to sound bytes -- and they're just giving the country the eye candy it wants instead of thought provoking television. If that's the case, then God help us all. CBS just ordered a *second* "Walker, Texas Ranger" spinoff because *that's* the kind of idiocy that gets ratings. Well... my best to you impatient, fickle viewers... I hope you enjoy the visionary imaginings of every mediocre producer out there until there's nothing left to watch but Olsen Twin shows.
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I don't know why people are constantly ragging on ABC for cancelling their shows, oh wait, yes I do, It's because they have good shows. I didn't see anyone bitching when Encore! Encore! or Union Square went off the air. That's most likely because they sucked. I was very upset when Cupid got cancelled, but I'll live with it and look forward to next fall. Of course, when Wind On Water got shut down after a couple of episodes, I didn't care a bit. If anything I was happy. It just so happens that ABC has had the unfortunate luck of having good shows with bad viewership. Not many other shows had that problem, they were just bad. ABC doesn't have the ease that NBC does, where they could put any show in almost any time slot, and be guaranteed decent ratings. And in regards to Strange World, I'd rather watch repeats of NYPD Blue. ABC had no choice but to cancel it, because its ratings were so bad. Keeping it on the air would be like forfeiting every Tuesday night to CBS.
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The reason WHY, though I'm a fan of sci-fi and online more than a bit, I can't fathom being part of a community like this is simple...
This so-called "cool" movement always backs the wrong frickin ponies... better to say...
Y'ALL BACK *EVERY* FRICKIN PONY!
Mercy Point! ER + Voyager = maybe good. ER + Voyager's tepid characterizations = doomed from the start!
You're the same people who back Babylon fucking 5 for God's sake!
Like Heinlein the Nazi and Harlan the Wacko dropped acid and sold the meanderings to ILM!
Christ!
Battlestar Galactica?! Luke and Han fight the Daleks?! What are you people ON?!
JUST because something is sci-fi fantasy doesn't MEAN you have to HAVE to back it!
Strange World was a wretched mingling of X-Files without the quirks and the MSNBC disease of the week!
You have the whole WWW to get organized on, and you STRAIGHT FACED defend Godzilla, Starship Troopers Armeggedon and Wing Commander?!
It's all Jules Verne with Reagan's jingoist face pasted on.
Write your own stuff, for the sake of Jesus Handtowel Christ, not dweeby little fan-fics that go to five guys sitting basements...
("Sam leaps into Methos and nails Amanda! The guys in IRC will LOVE it!")
... or derivatives of other stuff... "The Hobbit but on Mars!"
Write your own stuff! Sell it to magazines, to Dark Horse, to Oni, make your own damn movies! Publish ORIGINAL stuff!
For every deserving series that goes down, every American Gothic, every Fantasy Island 2 you shed tears for... you all cry just as hard for the 5 watered down derivative Crusade/Space Precinct/TekWorld craps.
You can't save EVERY show and, quite frankly, the only show you ever 'saved' was STAR TREK... both a fluke and in a day when the broadcast bandwidth was small enough to NEED a niche show on a network...
the meat of this arguement is...
They KNOW you're all going to cough up letter writing campaigns... link to MrShowbiz, Cinescape, Dark Horizons, etc etc etc... and maybe you'll do something about it.
But you do a little campaign for EVERY show these days.
Hence...
Pulling a show early is now the PERFECT way to see if it got a cult following! F scores, Q scores be damned!
If you have a letter writing campaign saving every piece of crap from THE RAVEN to CRUSADE, all you're going to do is prove to them that you (and me, too, I suppose) are all a bunch of drooling unorganized losers, who'll jump at anything!
They'll have you by the soft parts!
Listen: Back quality when quality
Listen: Don't back for it's own sake
Listen: If you're so damn pissed, step up and get in the damn business.
But don't tell me WING COMMANDER needs a damn sequel just cuz rockets shot lazers in it.
And, on that note, I declare a pre-emptive letter writing campaign to save the CLERKS cartoon on ABC, as I know it's going to take a lot of shit, already ;) -
I know that ABC cancelled Fantasy Island, but apparently they're living on Fantasy Island. I am so pissed off right now, I don't even know what to write. ABC doesn't want to do any work to develop their new shows. They want to put a new show on the air and get instant results. They did the same thing to Murder One! Cancelled it! SW is a quality show that was never given the chance to prove itself. I cannot believe that this decision was made based on 3 episodes. A lot of people compared this show to the X-Files. If you think back to the X-Files for the 1st season, they're ratings were not good either, but FOX had faith in the show and waited for it to develop into a megahit. ABC has consistently let the fans down.
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What da hell was all that about Janitor???
And Babylon "f*****g 5???? Yeah!! F*****g great series!
And f*****g Crusade???? Well I gather that like myself many,many others and yourself, it has yet to be screened.
So how you can give it the kiss of death before a single frame has been broadcast is beyond me.
In future, try calming down or take your own advice and create your own sci-fi master piece.
It's gotta be better than your posting. -
Good riddance!
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Have you ever read Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"? From your posts I bet you'd like it ALOT! (There's a very good TV movie version available from Amazon.com for $10) PS I've noticed you've toned down the 4-letter expletives in your posts - It becomes you...
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Cupid? Stange World? I hadn't even HEARD of these shows until another AICN poster braught them up in an E-mail a couple of weeks ago... I think you guy's are watching TV expecting to be entertained, but instead are being sold soap, which is the TRUE and ONLY priority in TeeVee... I do have a question however... What's this with a SECOND Walker Texas Ranger spinoff? I didn't know there was a first! Hell I thought they canned that ridiculous show years ago! Also to the guy who called Baywatch Nights the best comedy of all time, I've got two words for you... SPACE RANGERS.
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Sports Night has been renewed for next season. So all you lovers of the show, like me, can stop worrying about it now.
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CRAP, can I predict 'em or what?? (In a previous TalkBack, I speculated that Strange World would be pulled after its third showing.) :^) Maybe I should find some way to make money off of my newfound talent. Yeah, ABC is going down the tubes, and maybe it's for the better. If their ratings keep sinking, maybe one day the WB will be able to buy out a number of ABC's affiliates (such as what happened when FOX did this to CBS). When FOX did this, it actually improved the CBS lineup. That's what ABC needs now -- another network, preferably a young up-and-comer like the WB, to bitchslap it severely.
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ABC made the right decision. Strange World's ratings really sucked. They showed no promise at all. All they showed was rejection by millions and millions of people: first, rejection of the "concept" in the fact that people didn't even try it. Second, rejection of the show itself by having each episode get a lower rating than the previous one.
The show wasn't good. It wasn't promising. And ABC was losing millions in advertising revenues by keeping it on.
I agree with the other poster (Janitor) who indicated that SF genre fans willingness to support ANYTHING in the genre without showing any sense of discrimination isn't sending a very good message about SF fans to the networks. It makes us look like nitwits. It also tells them that quality doesn't matter because we'll support anything the slap the genre label on.
The 'save Crusade' efforts are an example of this. The networks know very well that the vast majority of people writing these letters have never even seen the show. Doesn't that kind of send a message of a semi-organized mindless cult vs. discriminating viewers who have lives? -
Dolfanar, do not diss Space Rangers, quite possibly the finest drama ever produced by human kind!
Besides, you forgot Space Precinct.
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ABC has done everything within it's power to make sure Strange World never had a chance. And you guys all sit there waxing philosophically on the wonderful shows ABC has pulled due to low ratings, bashing Strange World yet again, when it is obvious you can't see beyond your beloved X-Files/Cupid/Fantasy Island!!!!! If you would wake up and smell the coffee beans you would realize that ABC is digging it's own grave. One of the main reasons that Strange World received deplorable ratings, is that ABC DID NOT ADVERTISE THE SHOW!!!! Oh, sure, a couple of plugs in the 9:30-11:00 hours, but nothing else. No write ups, no billboard advertising, no magazine ads, no advertising on the buses. Well pretty much no advertising at all! Cupid and Fantasy Island received at least a minimal effort to advertise the shows. How do I know? Why because, I DON'T WATCH ABC, and yet I knew about the shows. And what about that wonderful negative media blitz that I hear repeated so often? All the boring platitudes offered up by the written media, and repeated over and over again by people who never EVEN SAW THE SHOW!! Not only are there errors in the reviews, but GLARING ERRORS, errors that point to the fact that the reviewers did not see the episode. Or if they did, the plot lines were purposefully mispresented for no other reason than to maliciously attack the show and drive off potential viewers. And ABC just let it happen. They didn't try to get the errors corrected. They didn't try to drum up viewer response. All they did was prove that the people running ABC care only about ratings and money, and if it is not a hit within the first five minutes, don't expect the series to stay on the air. ABC expected it's comedy/cop audience to translate over to a dark science based program. It just didn't work out and they can't understand why. Well I can, it's pretty easy. The people who run ABC are as lame as most of their comedies.
At the risk of being labled oh gods not another Save Our Show campaign, I'm going to say it agian. Go to http://www.bflg.com/strange/ I would like to see this show find it's nitch. I'm just not going to try with ABC anymore. We are going after a new network. Come and help us out, if you are interested. If not, well then don't.
Rae (chammy@erols.com) OH, and just so you know, there never would have been a third episode if it wasn't for us. -
What the hell is up with ABC?
Why do they keep cancelling good shows? I mean for god's sake, three episodes?
I loved Strange World. It was well crafted and truly creepy.
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I liked the premise, and I was actually willing to stick with this show because it was only 13 episodes. This is too much. Any news on what will replace it? (Why not Fantasy Island? :) Let's start a betting pool. 200 bucks says "The Norm Show" won't last more than 2 months. :)
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Hey- the thing that pisses ME off the most is that they only made it to 3, and not 4, eps. Didn't Glen (or one of those AICN guys) post a review of the 1st 4 eps that stated that the **4th** ep, "Spirit Falls" was an excellent kick-a$$ episode that gave the reviewer hope for the future quality of the series overall??? Well, wouldn't you know it- that was the episode scheduled for next week that we'll never see! (or won't we? Anyone know of any plans to air the shows, perhaps in the dead of summer at 4am???)
Otherwise, I thought the show was "OK"- the Lullaby episode (about hearts) being the best by far - the pilot and the memory episodes being kind of weak. (but why couldn't it last just ONE MORE ep!!! $%^&&*@!.....) -
What are you on Ranger?! There are so many great movies that just blow away anything ever seen on TV. You may have to hunt for them, but there is a steady stream of good product out there. TV on the otherhand, has become a wasteland of lowest common denominator crap. Anything that shows promise is canceled and the trend is only getting worse, American Gothic and My So Called Life got close to full seasons. Now shows are lucky to get a month.
I don't watch ABC or CBS except for sports. I'm down to 5 shows that are can't misses and even some of these are getting worse. X-Files has not been very good this year, a few memorable eps. and a bunch of junk trying to work in a co-star of the week as if it were The Love Boat. Some people think Voyager has improved but I think it is actually worse. Janeway has become so inconsistent, strong and commanding one show, illogical and whining the next. ER is no longer the riveting show it started out as, and I'm not sure why. The only shows still on the upside are Buffy and a bounce-back season from Friends (flame if you must, I like it). The only new show I can stomach is That 70's show. The Simpsons has also become very hit-or-miss this year.
I find myself hoping the shows I like are reruns so I can rent movies. Everytime I walk in to Hollywood Video I could walk out with 20+ films if I had the time to watch them all.
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It's beginning to look like ABC is turning into the Disney/sitcom network. With the exception of The Practice, the folks at the Mouse Network aren't supporting their dramas or dramadies at all. Pretty soon, viewers that favor shows which don't contain a laugh track are going to be turned away from this network in droves; if the network isn't willing to give dramas or dramadies (such as 'Cupid') a fighting chance, then why show the viewing public?
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The enormous sucking sound of a television black hole that just BEGGED for more commericials (aka Strange World) is gone. Not a moment too soon. Let's all go back something worth watching... whatever that is.......
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ANY show, good or bad, needs more
than 3 episodes for anyone to be
able to make an opinion about it.
Hell, people had axes to grind about this show in the media over
a month ago. With viewship
hemorraging in such an extreme way
I don't see what they had to LOSE by keeping the show on the air, given the limited money they spent
to promote the 13 episodes ALREADY SHOT...
And about the Norm McDonald series
coming soon, lets hope it doesn't
even last 3 episodes, that mugging
son of a B is NOT very funny.
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McKracken, don't shoot the messenger. The decision to pull or keep a program is totally in the broadcaster's camp. It is not the responsibility of the ratings company, whose role is simply to count the audience.
Nielsen Media has two ratings methodologies, electronic meters (which is the most advanced system in the world) and viewing diaries -in the smaller markets.
You don't need to start a silly 'fight the Nielsen ratings' website. Just let me know what your criticism with the methodology is. They are in the phone book and on the web, and as an associate there, I happen to know they are open to constructive suggestions. But if you simply want to save your show, your polite comments will be better used if you lobby the network that runs it. Best regards.
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I tried to watch Strange World, but I got so bored with it that I wound up not even sitting through the entire episode. The problem with post-X-Files horror/thriller shows is that they try to make an entire series out of one facet of the X-Files' litany of weirdness. That's the great thing about XF - it's variety. It can go from conspiracy to aliens to monsters to ghosts. This lack of variety has been the problem with everything from Dark Skies to Strange World - well, that and the obvious attempt to rip off XF's look and feel.
The only successful post-XF horror show has been Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One of the reasons it succeeds as a horror show is that it doesn't even try to be XF. It presents its material from a totally different perspective. -
Ranger- I have watched 7th Heaven, I even watched it regularly for awhile and it can be a pretty good show. But most of the situations aren't anything we haven't seen before on 90210 or a zillion other shows. I decided I could live without seeing it. Also I only used movie rentals in my argument because you mentioned B5 and shows that aren't on (reruns don't count).
Very few weeks have gone by when I can't find a movie worth seeing. For instance, this weekend I'll be seeing Children of Heaven and/or Central Station and I still haven't seen The General. Just go beyond the multiplexes. Movies have a depth that simply can't be attained in the time constraints of TV where all stories have to be structured for commercial breaks. Stories are told that TV can't touch.
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I was surprised this type of show was aired on ABC. Having Mickey Mouse uncovered conspiracies within the government is not quit politically correct, but ABC should have let the show run it normal course. I liked it. Fantasy Island and Cupid were good shows too and a lot better than D&G and 3P..Pizza Place. Bring back L&S and Happy Days.
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To the guy who suggested Apple advertising: Earth: Final Conflict has done some of that product tie-in stuff. Whenever they used their communications screen, an MCI logo popped up. That was very prevalent during season 1, but seems to have disappeared in season 2.
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1. Strange World is NOT an X-Files related government conspiracy series. Strange World is closer to Robin Cook's "Coma" and Michael Crichton's "The Andromdeda Strain", than it is to aliens landing and trying to take over the world. Strange World is about science, medicine, and who is policing all of these new advances in the science/medicine technology fields.
2. ABC IS TOTALLY AT FAULT FOR STRANGE WORLD FAILING. ABC did almost nothing to promote the series. Promo ads starting appearing on ABC one week prior to the series premiere, exclusively on ABC and only during the 9:30-11:00 time slots. This is definitely not long enough to garner interest in a series. ABC has taken great pains to promote it's new comedy, "Like, you know", starting as early as February.
3. ABC alienated their NYPD Blue fans by pulling the show just so it could premiere Strange World. And they wonder why no one was watching. The NYPD crowd was furious and purposely boycotted the show. If you don't believe me, go take a look at the newsgroups.
4. ABC premiered Strange World during a critical time for the network. Right after sweeps week, advertising companys set their ad rates for the next six months. Any series not showing significant ratings will be pulled and replaced with something else to increase the Nielsen ratings.
5. The media has been biased against Strange World from the beginning. By relating Strange World to the X-Files constantly, potential viewers were given the mistaken belief that Strange World would be a Sci-Fi/Alien Encounter/Government Conspiracy, rip off of the X-Files. Nothing could be farther from the truth. And again, many in the media BLANTANTLY REPORTED ERRONEOUS PLOT LINES, CHARACTERS, AND SERIES OVERVIEW! AICN is one of the few media resources not to do so. **********************************
Howard Gordon has many credits to his name, some just as prominent as the X-Files, but these rarely hit the media reviews. Besides the X-Files, HG has worked on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer during it's critically acclaimed second season, on Beauty and the Beast, winning several Golden Globes for his work, and on Spencer for Hire. I rarely, if ever, see these facts mentioned. Come on Guys, lay off the Strange World Bashing. See the travesty of justice that has been done to Strange World before you cast it into the garbage heap. Three episodes is certainly not enough to make an accurate judgement on the worthiness of a series. Especially when the series has been die cast from the beginning, and ABC made sure that it would fail. You should be bashing the media and ABC instead.
Rae (chammy@erols.com)http://www.bflg.com/strange/
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1. Strange World is NOT an X-Files related government conspiracy series. Strange World is closer to Robin Cook's "Coma" and Michael Crichton's "The Andromdeda Strain", than it is to aliens landing and trying to take over the world. Strange World is about science, medicine, and who is policing all of these new advances in the science/medicine technology fields.
2. ABC IS TOTALLY AT FAULT FOR STRANGE WORLD FAILING. ABC did almost nothing to promote the series. Promo ads starting appearing on ABC one week prior to the series premiere, exclusively on ABC and only during the 9:30-11:00 time slots. This is definitely not long enough to garner interest in a series. ABC has taken great pains to promote it's new comedy, "Like, you know", starting as early as February.
3. ABC alienated their NYPD Blue fans by pulling the show just so it could premiere Strange World. And they wonder why no one was watching. The NYPD crowd was furious and purposely boycotted the show. If you don't believe me, go take a look at the newsgroups.
4. ABC premiered Strange World during a critical time for the network. Right after sweeps week, advertising companys set their ad rates for the next six months. Any series not showing significant ratings will be pulled and replaced with something else to increase the Nielsen ratings.
5. The media has been biased against Strange World from the beginning. By relating Strange World to the X-Files constantly, potential viewers were given the mistaken belief that Strange World would be a Sci-Fi/Alien Encounter/Government Conspiracy, rip off of the X-Files. Nothing could be farther from the truth. And again, many in the media BLANTANTLY REPORTED ERRONEOUS PLOT LINES, CHARACTERS, AND SERIES OVERVIEW! AICN is one of the few media resources not to do so. **********************************
Howard Gordon has many credits to his name, some just as prominent as the X-Files, but these rarely hit the media reviews. Besides the X-Files, HG has worked on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer during it's critically acclaimed second season, on Beauty and the Beast, winning several Golden Globes for his work, and on Spencer for Hire. I rarely, if ever, see these facts mentioned. Come on Guys, lay off the Strange World Bashing. See the travesty of justice that has been done to Strange World before you cast it into the garbage heap. Three episodes is certainly not enough to make an accurate judgement on the worthiness of a series. Especially when the series has been die cast from the beginning, and ABC made sure that it would fail. You should be bashing the media and ABC instead.
Rae (chammy@erols.com)http://www.bflg.com/strange/
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