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"Duggy" <Paul.Duggan@jcu.edu.au> wrote in message 
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On Jul 30, 8:50 am, "Fleeced" <flee...@antispam.fleecedatmail.com>
wrote:
> "David Barnett" wrote:
>
> > I liked the show, have seen every episode in spite of Nine's erratic
> > airing of the show, and was sorry when it ended.
>
> I did watch the first few shows when it aired, but they weren't that 
> great -
> and Nine moved it around before the main story arc kicked into gear, so
> I gave up. I wish I hadn't.

As you and I agree it began badly.  And Nine certainly did some stupid
things with this show (editing and aimming it at kids).

But timeslots is a difficult thing.  All too many times they get
blamed for leaving a show to rot in a timeslot that isn't working for
it.  And if they move it around they get blamed for that - and yes, I
agree it is easy to lose a show if it is shifted too much,

If a show doesn't rate they're expected to keep playing it and lose
themselves money to "give it a chance to grow an audience".

Shows start slowly, take time to "get good" and the audience leaves
before the show does... that isn't always the network's fault.  You
and I didn't like the show when it started.  That's not Nine's fault.
That is the makers.

Look at Firefly.  Fox are blamed for killing that show.  I've heard
people say they are still boycotting Fox for that - except for
Dollhouse (which is weird, if Joss have forgiven Fox, why can't his
fans)...

They didn't show the original pilot (until much later).  That's what
pilots are.  They're for the networks to decide what they do or don't
like and what needs to be changed.  Again look at Dollhouse.  Fox
didn't like the pilot, Joss made a better one.

Once Fox got past the bad pilot Joss stuck them with and the bad
follow-up need to introduce the Reavers, they jumped straight to the
best episodes to catch the already dwindled audience.  But no, the
fans claim they should have played a bunch of crap episodes just to
keep the tiny, barely noticable bits of continuity straight.

And they they cancelled it "just when it was getting good".  The 13
episode contract is pretty standard.  It means that's when you're
going to be cancelled then if you haven't got your audience.  You need
to get good way, way before that point.

When Sarah Conner Chronicles was axed the someone said they'd talked
to the showrunner and "season three was going to be our best season
yet".  It's easy to say that... but, why didn't they just make season
2 better?

IIRC Foxtel repeated at least the final episodes of the series quite some 
time back.
I forgot to mention this earlier.
-- 
David Barnett