The beginning it's not encouraging

kirirur · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:11 pm

Dollhouse death watch: Ratings worse than ever

http://scifiwire.com/2009/09/dollhouse- ... ch-rat.php

It's only the begin and it's possible that things will change in the future but I think that loosing its leadin partner Dollhouse will suffer a lot...

Rodrigo · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:34 am

Just like TSCC...it's like May of 2009 all over again

I don't know why, but I remembered an old saying: those who don't know history* are doomed to repeat it.

* --> my own modification: or they really don't know OR...they don't WANT TO know...which is FOX's case :roll:

¬¬

glau-coma · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:04 am

as long as we see Bennet before this, or otherwise I go back to My old theory...

Quote:

FOX
hates
Summer-Glau!!!

case · **Joined:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:03 am **Posts:** 248

If you put a show on a night where the target demographic is not going to be home what do you expect? The show was never going to get good ratings on a Friday, it's just the wrong audience at the wrong time. Hopefully Fox will be paying attention to online and dvr numbers though like they did last year .. I just hope they'll be good.

The other problem was just lack of good advertising. I just don't think everyone even knew the show had started.

kirirur · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:29 pm

DVR numbers were really good for TSCC and they cancelled it however. FOX wants live viewers, they really doesn't care if there are a tons of them watching their show on DVR.

I've just read a good analysis here (it's referred on TSCC but its can be easily applied also on Dollhouse...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQ ... d_i=507846

Quote:

Though we didn't need additional proof of it, TSCC is yet another example of the fact that there is absolutely no connection between quality, viewership, and renewal in American television. It is further proof of just how broken commercial TV is. The brute fact is that TV series are, from the corporate point of view, vehicles for commercials. If they provide a platform for a large number of people to see the commercials that are the economic heart of the shows, they are in the eyes of the networks great shows. Absolutely dreadful shows like TWO AND A HALF MEN or the endless police procedurals on CBS illustrate this. I've never seen a respected TV critic with a kind word for TWO AND A HALF MEN, yet it remains the most watched half hour comedy on television. Thus, it is the best platform for advertising. PUSHING DAISIES was cancelled at midseason despite more critical acclaim than any other series on the four major networks. Perhaps for fans of television the major networks have outlived their usefulness. If they can't find a place for a show as fine as TSCC on their schedules, it is proof that TV is broken. FOX eats up huge gobs of its schedule with the unceasingly awful AMERICAN IDLE while NBC has eliminated five hours of scripted TV in the 2009-2010 schedule so that they can hand it over to the untalented and uninteresting Jay Leno.

But it isn't the networks that are to blame. It is the American TV viewer. As long as we tune in to AMERICAN IDLE, various reality dancing shows, TWO AND A HALF MEN, and police procedurals, they are going to keep giving us crap. I am a radical on this. I actually think that there is an ethics of TV viewing. I honestly believe it is immoral to watch 20/20 or TWO AND A HALF MEN and that it will be unconscionable to watch Jay Leno's new series. Or if you must watch these horrible shows, at least DVR them. As long as they are the best vehicles for commercials, we are going to continue to lament the cancellation of the better shows and the unceasingly continuation of critically unacclaimed and artistically empty series.

Brolly088 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:41 pm

Hmm... It seems that the bulgarian fans of Dollhause liked the serial.I search in some bg forums and the opinions for the new season of Dollhause are very good.Personally I haven`t watched yet,I`m downloading it now and I`m going to watch it tonight so I`ll be able to comment later

ryan · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:52 pm

I saw a billboard for "The Mentalist"..."Let the mind games begin" :lol:

, but have not seen anything for Dollhouse.

kirirur · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:56 pm

Ryan, since you're from US, what do you think about the opinion expressed by the guy I've posted from Amazon.com?

ryan · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:30 pm

kirirur wrote:

Ryan, since you're from US, what do you think about the opinion expressed by the guy I've posted from Amazon.com?

He's correct in that television is a vehicle for advertising; always has been. Of course, there's nothing he or we can do about it. Until people start paying more attention to their own lives instead of what some mean, vindictive people are doing on some stupid reality show, nothing will change. Networks will continue to fund the programs that mean nothing to most of us. This of course doesn't explain why some of the more popular shows get canceled. Perhaps new shows should first be judged by us commoners instead of the royalty within the networks.

PMGStubbs · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:10 am

i hope the ratings pick up Joss really deserves better, and so does Summer, fingers crossed

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