Firefly will be on hiatus in January.
Which will probably be okay, since it will likely take us that long to watch our tapes of the December episodes, given our schedules.
Still, it’s annoying. The plan from Fox was to move the show to Wednesday nights. At which point, WB announced that they were moving Angel to the same time slot.
While I’m irked that Fox is putting the show into hiatus while figuring out the schedule change, I am gratified that they didn’t just plop Firefly into that time slot anyway. That would have been … unfortunate.
At the same time, momentum is important for shows. Throwing it off the schedule for a month (after a spotty November/December) isn’t going to help attract viewers. And I really want this show to succeed.
(via Doyce, who has more geeky goodness about the goings-on)
Welcome to the world of Friday Night FOX. Dark Angel — an amazing show — was shafted with its timeslot. I don’t understand why FOX bothers with genre television — only The X-Files ever succeeded for them.
List of failures? Millennium (2nd season was downright brilliant), The Lone Gunmen, VR-5, Space: Above and Beyond, and that Chris Carter virtual reality show.
Failures, as in FOX didn’t give them their best shot (except, perhaps, for Millennium, which veered off-course its final season).
And all of them shows that would seem emininently unsuitable for Friday nights, based on what their target demographics are likely to be doing then (i.e., something other than watching TV).
Maybe if they gave out free TiVos to all their viewers …