![]() ![]() ![]() With marketing not aligning with the show’s subject matter, executives not liking the show from the start, and airing the show completely out of order, Firefly was unsurprisingly cancelled after its first season, a fourteen-episode run, of which only eleven were even aired. ![]() Commercials for the series pitched it as a wonky comedy, instead of a drama. And despite Firefly being a sort of episodic adventure, that first episode is the Pilot for a reason, with the larger dramatic arcs of the characters flowing linearly. Executives weren’t fans of the interracial marriage of characters Wash (Alan Tudyk) and Zoe (Gina Torress) from the beginning luckily, Whedon wouldn’t budge on that front. If you look at a list of shows that aired on what’s called the “Friday Night Death Slot” (or FNDS), it’s like a graveyard of “Oh yeah, I remember that one.” If these circumstances don’t align, the show will die, get cancelled and the DVD’s director commentaries will be the only sequel you’re going to get.įirefly aired on FOX’s very own "FNDS" back in 2002, and that wasn’t the only problem facing the show. The show needs to air at a time when people can watch it, and hopefully it’s not competing with any other shows on any other networks. Stories of critically acclaimed shows that just couldn’t bring in the ratings are a tale as old as television itself. A series needs viewers, consistent eyes that will return to a show week after week. Turned out the Venn Diagram of NBC viewers and cannibal food porn lovers couldn’t have been farther apart. For example, Bryan Fuller’s exquisite adaptation of the Hannibal Lector lore, Hannibal, aired on NBC for three seasons, and for each of those seasons it was under the cancellation gun. A show needs a network with a dedicated audience that aligns itself with the themes and narrative of the program. Network television series exist in a rough landscape a seemingly perfect storm needs to happen for a show to have any form of longevity. ![]()
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