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By: Calisia

Calisia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:05:58 +0000

I would like to reply to the response stating that the geek males fall into different subgroups and this changes the outcome. I would like to point out that not all geeks are male and as a geeky female I have loved almost ALL of these shows.I own the first four on DVD along with Pushing Dasies and Dead Like Me. Serenity was not up to par with Firefly and if it had been it had the possibility of being picked up by another network. The reason Family Matters did so well is because it reached so many different groups where as all the other shows were niche shows. They needed to reach a wider audience. And although I loved them they were just to nerdy for some!

By: Animal

Animal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:51:43 +0000

Alex, you are right. Brian Fuller’s “Wonderfalls” and “Pushing Daises” were great. But it was his “Dead Like Me” that has my vote as a Top 10 TV show of all time. Brilliant!

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By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:53:31 +0000

We need term-limits for shitcoms !

By: William

William — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:30:01 +0000

It is all Obama’s fault!

By: Elliander

Elliander — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:05:41 +0000

I never watched any of those shows, never seemed interesting to me, and never even heard of the lower end ones. So I don’t really understand what you are getting at. Are you saying that the shows with higher numbers are of lower quality than the shows of lower numbers? If so, allot of the problem has less to do with a show actually being good and more to do with time slots (though I have been sent some horrible pilot videos in the mail). There have been a number of shows that were killed by one network, but then when picked up by another popularity kept it going. If one show is only remotely good but gets in at a time when the target audience is able to watch it, there is a good chance that if they find some kind of “hook” they can keep the series going long term. On the other hand, put a really good show in when no one will see it, and popularity will wane. Some other series experience drop offs of viewers because the time between seasons are just too large or the story is hard to follow. Other times the writers try to change allot of stuff to attract viewers but end up removing the quality it originally had and find themselves with no way to save it. There are really a number of reasons why it all works out to let a show of higher quality fail and a show of lower quality succeed.

By: Juzhataeshaooerrr

Juzhataeshaooerrr — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:55:05 +0000

“I never got into ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

But WONDERFALLS, FIREFLY, FREAKS AND GEEKS AND MY SO-CALLED LIFE were all brilliant shows that died before their time.” —- Tom

I never got into firefly(as in never watched a single episode) , but I loved all the other shows!—- this got me thinking , what if there were different subtypes of geeks that had slightly different tastes.
Now generally geeks bring home pretty decent bacon and have less girls around them than the average population at the same income levels.
What if a lack of interest in any one of the shows on list (except maybe family matters)indicates that you belong to a particular subtype of geeks?

Now as a marketing exec all you need to do go out a mine data like crazy and pinpoint these subtypes of geeks.
Then create tailor made marketing campaigns for them, with the exact combination of accessories to turn them on.

The evidence of the propensity of geeks to spend needless amounts of money on products they like is pretty strong.(i’m referring to the so called, hard-core overclockers who buy extreme editions of cpus)
Any company that does this , will make SHITloads of money!!!

This bring me to my conspiracy theory, guess what’s StumbleUpon’s business plan is?

(guess what’s stumble upon’s biz plan is)

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By: sevter

sevter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:08:53 +0000

I curse Fox while regretfully weeping at Firefly cancellation. Serenity wasn’t nearly enough for my addiction…

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