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Old 04-13-2009, 04:44 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Titan View Post
Enterprise was fucking terrible and unwatchable. Pretty much killed the Star Trek franchise IMHO. Hopefullly the new movie will fix it.

Terminator was a big pile of steamy shit and am not surprised its gone. So bad it hurt.


Stuff that was actually good:

Rome
Firefly
Farscape


I think they had a goodly amount of viewers but I believe all 3 were canned because they were too expensive to produce.
rome had a fire on the set, cost of rebuilding with their audience levels were not justified.

firefly was not that expensive, it just did not have an audience, partly because it got bounced around so much.

Farscape that one was really expensive to make, and it audience level did not justify that expense. The magic number now is 4 commercial spots. If your show cost more than 4 commercial spots it gets cancelled, if it cost less it does not. Shows like knight rider stay on the air because most of their budget is covered by the product placement deal so they hit that magic number even with their crappy ratings.

Shows with no product placement/limited product placement get killed by that number.
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