FOX television sucks

FOX is once again threatening to cancel their best television show, Arrested Development.  FOX wonders why it continually lags behind the other networks in the ratings.  Memo to FOX: your ratings suck because you keep either cancelling or rescheduling the few good shows you have.  Arrested Development has won about a dozen Emmy awards and has a rabidly fanatical fan base.  But you put it on the same time as Monday Night Football.  Of course it isn't doing well!  NOTHING has ever done well opposite Monday Night Football!  Plus, FOX pre-empted Arrested Development repeatedly during the baseball post-season.  Because this show has a lot of carryover-plot from episode to episode, going several weeks in between new episodes makes it much harder to draw in new viewers.

Put Arrested Development back on Sunday night, in between The Simpsons and Family Guy.  Then LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE!

Here is a petition you can sign to tell FOX not to cancel Arrested Development... again.

Comments

[Geoffrey Davis]

Fox is a major network. I would expect that the people making these decisions would be a little smarter.

[Gullyborg]

But on what are they basing these decisions? Are they trying to do the best job to win viewers? Or do they want to maximize profits? Or minimize expenses? My fear is that they are trying to make the most money today without thinking about who will still be watching tomorrow.

[Mark]

Look at Firefly. Had 14 episodes; only showed 10 of them, and showed them out of order; canceled the show before even finished the ten. Not exactly brilliant works over there.

[Haximus]

No, I love the war at home...Quite funny in a much less thought provoking way. Some of the humor takes way to much thought to follow in Arrested Development and Sunday night is all about Simpsons and Family Guy nailing the humor in the most obvious fashion. Putting a brain trust show like that inbetween loses more people than it gains.

[Sailor Republica]

They have to replace King of the Hill somehow, why not there?

[Tyler D.]

I have a list of shows. Give me a minute to find it.

[Tyler D.]

Fast Lane
John Doe
The Lone Gunmen
Titus
Fire Fly
Dark Angel

[Sailor Republica]

They just better keep House. That show is DAMN good.

[Bob]

"The war at home" is pretty dreadful. I wish they'd replace that!

[niloniak]

There is nothing on any of the major networks that can be described as a "brain trust". Arrested Development is brilliant because it does not assume the viewers have an eighth grade education and relies on things like wit instead of toilet humor. Fox continues its quest to devolve with this latest move.

[Dare!PDX]

Petition signed. Both season's purchased on DVD and I'm spreading the word.

This show has Seinfield appeal. Once you get drawn in and know the diverse cast of characters it just gets better and better.

It even makes David Cross seem to have redeemable value. He's a friggin genious in his role as Dr. Funke! GOB and that friggin Segway (look out Portland your being made fun of) - what a trust fund does.

[Danny]

Well, remember that Fox is the network that until they got the NFL was literally kept afloat by the Simpsons and nothing else.

Hell, given that only 18-49s apparently buy things (even I though I am one), TV quality is getting worse. Witness CBS cancelling Judging Amy because it "skewed too old".

Sigh...

[Gullyborg]

Maybe the executives at Fox need some Teamocil...

[Gullyborg]

And perhaps we should all start refering to whoever is in charge over at Fox as "Mr. F."

[Nate]

First of all, Arrested Development isn't and never has been shown opposite of MNF. MNF airs at 9, AD airs at 8.

But that isn't the issue.

The issue is that Fox has continually blown it with their lack of advertising, and the flexible schedule they've put AD on for some reason.

My hope is that it ends up on Showtime. Showtime isn't as hungry for ratings as it is for subscriptions (which is how they make their cash), and you can bet a good chunk of the AD audience without Showtime would instantly buy in just to watch AD.

[Gullyborg]

> MNF airs at 9, AD airs at 8.

Nate: depends what time zone you are in! We west coasters get MNF early, but AD is still at 8.