Yes. Sat tv is just a different delivery method. Contracts and shit are still involved, the syndication "rules" don't change.
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Yes. Sat tv is just a different delivery method. Contracts and shit are still involved, the syndication "rules" don't change.
Why'd you have to bring that up? ;___;Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowdisease
BTW -- Animaniacs is coming out on DVD. I can finally get rid of all of my tapes.
EDIT -- Cow, thanks for that site with the pictures. I'll have to look through my old vacation pictures and scan the ones with Nickelodeon Studios.
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Originally Posted by Rumpy
Anyway, my theory was based on how networks have killed shows like firefly, farscape, enterprise, and futuroma to only later make money on DVD sets, reruns, and selling them to other networks.
No, those shows were cancelled because they weren't getting ratings. The fact that they made money off of DVDs was a nice surprise. Family Guy would have stayed cancelled if it wasn't for the huge DVD sales (and high ratings from the Adult Swim reruns) knocking them in the head that there was a demand for the show.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
EDIT: Now that networks know that they can make money off of DVDs, they might take more chances with shows, but as someone said earlier in this thread, the network wants the show to stay in the air as long as possible to make a lot of money off of syndication. Look at Arrested Development. It's an awesome show, but Fox is cancelling it because of dismal ratings. Sure, they'll make money selling the DVD seasons, but they would have preferred that it had huge ratings to get large advertising revenue to sustain production costs (each episode cost like $750,000 to $850,000 from what I've read) and really make the money in syndication.
You seem to forget that those networks put the shows in time spots to kill them, not the other way around.
Believe it or not, those schedule changes were made because someone thought it'd be a good idea and would help the show build ratings. You can't really make an argument for what Fox has done numerious times, they're just retarded. If a show doesn't jump out of the gate right away or is mishandled by a network, the ax comes frighteningly fast. You're favorite show ever might be getting canceled, but when the suits look and don't see the numbers they move on. It's the brutal nature of TV.
DVD is changing things though.
There is it a lot of shit flying around this thread, but I will only adress a few things:
Face it people, the VAST majority of shit from the 80's is fucking terrible now, and its only blind nostalgia that makes people claim that Thundercats, GI Joe and He-Man are actually good shows. With that said, it just goes to show you one thing: kids are stupid and they will watch ANYTHING. I gaurantee that when the kids of today grow up they will end up praising the shitty shows that they are watching today in the same way that 20+ year olds today swear that Inspector Gadget and all the other shows of the era were awesome.
Usually it has a lot to do with inner office politics and poor management. I understand why Fox ran Futurama at 7:00 on Sundays. They were trying to extend their successful 8 - 10 block of television by an hour. Futurama had one of the most successful series premiere's on Fox. The real reason was that Fox wasn't willing to let go of its flagship series The Simpsons. The original plan was to replace The Simpsons with Futurama, but obviously Fox didn't vouch for that course of action for too long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
I mean, The Simpsons at 8 and Futurama at 8:30... it books itself.
But at the same time Futurama lasted for 4 years, which is 3 years longer than any other show would have gone so Fox didn't cut it off high and dry.
Sometimes executives just don't "get" a show or think it's right for their network. In the case of Firefly Fox aired the show out of order, missed episodes and ended up nixing the series before it got its after burners hot. Family Guy is another show Fox never seemed to like and support. But I guess DVD's changing that.Quote:
You can't really make an argument for what Fox has done numerious times, they're just retarded. If a show doesn't jump out of the gate right away or is mishandled by a network, the ax comes frighteningly fast. You're favorite show ever might be getting canceled, but when the suits look and don't see the numbers they move on. It's the brutal nature of TV.
Farscape had 4 seasons and a made for TV mini-series to prove its worth, and it didn't. SCI-FI let it go because it wasn't bringing home the bacon, not because they disliked it or because they mishandled it.
Are there any professional news outfits that have reported on the studio's closing?
I couldn't find anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tragic
However, I did find this picture from 1991 in my mom's Florida photo album. The Slime Geyser in all of its glory.
EDIT -- http://classicnickelodeon.ytmnd.com/
EDIT 2 - http://daemen.edu/%7Eceagan/nickelod...le052505-2.htm