Wed, January 12, 2005
Wonderfalls on DVD!—3:13 PM
Coming next month on DVD, the entire series of Wonderfalls, ignorantly canceled by Fox before people even heard what night it was on.
Fox, like most networks, has no idea whether a show is good or not, thanks to the fact that all television programming executives are mean, stupid morons. In many ways, it's astonishing a show like Wonderfalls ever got the green light. But they did everything they could to kill it after that! It moved nights twice (in four episodes) and had very little promotional support – and what it had was misguided. Just because the marketing team doesn't understand a show doesn't meant it's a bad show. And if it fails because they couldn't sell it to an audience, they should be fired first; the show should be canceled second.
Anyway, the weasels at Fox pulled the plug way early, but the bean-counting weasels twenty stories below crunched the numbers and realized that the network could recoup some of its production costs if they charged viewers to watch the show on DVD rather than trying to charge advertisers to support the show on television. (Isn't that what TV networks are for, though? I'm envisioning a future with 500 channels of static – or Turbie Twist ads – and if you want to watch a TV show you have to just wait for it to come out on DVD.)
So, join me in subsidizing the moronic practice of canceling a viable show and then charging for it at Best Buy. Pre-order Wonderfalls. You'll be glad you did.
The best part of the Amazon description of this DVD set: "All 13 episodes, including 9 that never aired" FUCK YOU, FOX PROGRAMMING WEASELS!!
