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SO WHAT DOES FOX DO when it finds the new hour-long drama it shoved into a Friday night slot of obscurity turns out to be a creative, unique, witty show that not only gets great reviews from critics but also gets people who hate TV to tune in and watch?

They shove it into the Thursday timeslot against CSI, the number one show in America.

And what happens the week after?

They cancel it. And replace it with a reality show involving "ugly women" who are given makeovers and forced to compete in a beauty pageant.

Jesus.

Wonderfalls, you deserved so much better. Whatever happened to letting a show run out its 13 ordered episodes and not canning it after fucking FOUR?!

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I've realized that FOX plays a role in the Grand Scheme of TV, and they simply are unwilling to break out of it. The first element of their role is having only one or two long-time running, hit, quality shows at a time. Everything else is short-lived or crap. In fax, FOX revels in its crapitude. They believe in crap, and they pledge their allegiance to the flag of the united states of crapcrapcrap every morning.
The second element of FOX, and this is sort of their saving grace, is that they set new trends in television production. Sometimes it's a negative thing (when people were marvelling at hour stupid Reality TV shows like "Survivor" are, they came up with "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" and it's only gotten worse since), but a lot of the times their shows set new standards for what will work in television for the next few years. "The Simpsons," "Ally McBeal," "X-Files," "Buffy," and scads and scads of other shows have been created for FOX, thought to be stupid at first, and became huge hits, copied everywhere. No other trends have been set like this except for the DIY Reality shows like "Trading Spaces" and "Queer Eye" on cable.
FOX could be the best network on television if they wanted to. Rupert Murdoch could sink more money into production and garner really quality writers, producers, and actors and take over every Prime Time night on television if he wanted to. But he doesn't. His attitude is that what he has is enough to make him billions, why should he spend more?

I have another entire theory about how UPN could be saved, but we won't go into that now.