Dammit.

I guessed it would happen, but I didn't think it would happen so soon. I really wish they would have given it another few weeks in it's new timeslot.

They should air the remaining episodes on FX, promote it, and who knows? maybe it could even get a second season on FX? Or what about UPN? Somebody please pick this show up!

This sucks. I LOVED this show - I had even convinced my boyfriend (who rarely watches tv, which I personally find shocking and wrong ) to start watching this show with me. I watch each episode twice, which I do with no other show except the o.c., in both instances because they're so funny I miss things because I'm laughing too hard. This will definitely join the ranks of "killed off due to network stupidity" and I'll buy the dvd the day it comes out (PLEASE release it!!!!). I honestly cannot understand why crap like forever eden is on the air when quality entertainment like wonderfalls is being cancelled. No more Joss Whedon OR Tim Minear - a sad day for tv.

While I don't think the follow-up shows stood up to the pilot, I'm sad to see this one go so soon, destined to the vaults of quality television.

Why didn't Fox wait a few more weeks before pulling Wonderfalls from Thursday lineup? They just moved it there for 1 week. Many viewers probably don't know it's on at that time because of the move.

Wow, that was pretty quick. I still don't think it beat the FOX cancelation record, though (Girls Club I was believe on for only two episodes before getting the ax). Too bad, the bits I watched of this show made it look quite promising.

Wonderfalls - here's hoping for a DVD set...
FOX

Damn- I was just starting to get into the show. I almost decided to call it quits over the ex-nun episode, but I loved the reunion one. I had a feeling something much larger than the individual parts was being built, because all of the talking animals stuck around each episode- by the end, Jaye should have a menagerie of animals in her trailer!

But, I have to say, I really, truly don't understand what Fox is doing. Now, I don't really understand the economics of TV shows, but maybe someone can help clarify:

In this case, Fox HAS 9 more episodes of WF, COMPLETED, and PAID FOR. How is it economically possible that they've determined that they're better off not even TRYING to show the remaining episodes? It's not like they have other shows waiting in the wings to put in it's place, do they? Is is possible that they actually CAN make more money showing "worlds wildest police chases 23" in it's place? What happened to letting shows find an audience? King of the Hill has been running for what seems like years, and I don't know anyone who watched it beyone the first season.

This isn't Girl's Club- This is a show that at least had critics praise, even if that didn't turn into immediate ratings, and they were throwing up against CSfrigginI? What did they think was going to happen???

(though it's not like I needed more TV to watch anyway...)

-jason

D**n it to f***ing hell, what is wrong with Fox? They take on a show that they can't promote decently, put in a crappy time slot, when the first two eps don't do so well they move it to another night with little advanced notice, and then decide it wasn't worth the trouble in the first place?

My wife was just getting into this show, got to watch the Thursday episode (I taped it, and I'll watch it tonight) and loved it. I just told her the news, and she's royally ticked.

I knew I was gonna be heartbroken, but I didn't expect it this soon. If there is any justice in the world, Minear will definately do as he suggests and sell the perfect Fox show to another network. At least now I can eliminate all Fox watching from my viewing schedule.

heh, thats sad...

I just saw an AD for the show a second ago during the Simpsons. (Monday, 6:30pm)

Local Affiliate must not be up to date on their now canned shows.

I knew I shouldn't have gotten into this show.

I really hope the remaining eps get aired somewhere. Or DVD. I don't care which one. But somewhere.

I'm waiting for a show to get canceled where it isn't proclaimed a travesty or an example of network stupidity (audience apathy would probably be more correct).

I saw the show, I really liked it, I loved the razor sharp humor that pretty much flirted with flat out meaness, you don't see that on TV and it was refreshing.

Actually, Fox cancelled Manchester Prep a few years ago before one episode even aired.

I'll miss Wonderfalls. The episodes I saw were really, really good.

We got to see Manchester Prep as Cruel Intentions 2, and I am thankful they didn't air that mess. That was certainly not quality TV, though I would love to see Kerri Lynn Pratt in just about anything!

Wonderfalls, on the other hand, is a gem of a show. I have to wonder didn't Fox learn anything with Family Guy? That show was wildly successful on DVD and encouraged the network to un-cancel it. Doesn't that tell them anything? Maybe the Family Guy viewers were there all along, they just didn't have Neilson ratings systems in their homes to tell the network they were there. I knew several people who kept up with Family Guy inspite of their constant shifting of it on the schedule. Wonderfalls would have likewise found a core and faithful audience, and certainly did in the first four episodes. Look at the attention it got in the worst time slots imagineable.

I just want the addresses to the Neilson famlies that are watching shit like the Swan and other crap like that, and I want to send a somebody out to steal their Neilson ratings boxes and put them in homes of people with brains. People who watch reality TV are too stupid to breathe, so they don't deserve to decide what the rest of us watch.

SAVE WONDERFALLS!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls

Even though this is a joke, I actually think the early ads DID make it look like Clone of Arcadia. Fox initially marketed it as some sort of magical feel-good show, and I had no intention of watching. Luckily the reviews made me give it a chance. In my dream world there would be a two-hour block consisting of Simpsons, Arrested Development, and Wonderfalls.

I know a network here in Quebec bought the rights to air the full series this summer so at least I'll be able to see it then.

Hopefully some Canooks will capture the show and put it out on the Internet for us all to enjoy.

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Either that or don't gouge me for DVD sets of this on Ebay.

"This is an outrage! How can Fox cancel such a great show? Just look at what the critics and message boards are saying!"

"Did you watch it?"

"Well, no, but that's not the point!"

Quote:

Originally posted by Breakfast with Girls
"This is an outrage! How can Fox cancel such a great show? Just look at what the critics and message boards are saying!"

"Did you watch it?"

"Well, no, but that's not the point!"

Good point.

However, like voting in government, would it really make a difference if we did watch? It's getting to the point where people aren't going to bother getting attached to a show thanks to boneheaded execs pissing all over both the show and whatever fans it might have...

[for the record: I did watch.]

I also did watch.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|87353|1|,00.html

'Wonderfalls' Surrenders to Destiny and Seeks a New Home
(Tuesday, April 06 09:30 AM)
By Kate O'Hare


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - It's not an everyday occurrence for shows to find success after changing networks, but it does happen. "JAG" left NBC after one season in 1995-'96 and moved to CBS, where it airs to this day.

After a rocky run at FOX, the comedy "Grounded for Life" has found favor with The WB, as did "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," which jumped to the Frog for three seasons after four on ABC.

Now, "Wonderfalls" hopes it can capture some of that magic. Axed by FOX after airing four original episodes (three on Friday, one last Thursday), the 20th Century Fox Television series from executive producers Bryan Fuller, Todd Holland and Tim Minear is taking its already completed 13 episodes and looking for a new home.

In particular, Fuller has set his sights on weblets The WB and UPN. "I think the show would make a great companion piece with 'Smallville' on The WB," he says, "and it would also make a great companion piece with 'America's Next Top Model' on UPN.

"It's a critically acclaimed drama. We don't have a lot of that on television right now, so we're hoping we can find a home on another network that will appreciate the show."

Caroline Dhavernas stars in "Wonderfalls" as Jaye Tyler, a twentysomething slacker who works in a Niagara Falls gift shop. She takes her first step into a larger world when animal figurines start giving her cryptic instructions, each of which leads to surprising and unexpected results for Jaye, her friends, family and complete strangers.

While Fuller believes that there was a lack of support for "Wonderfalls" in the upper echelons of FOX and its parent company, News Corp., FOX Broadcasting corporate communications v.p. Scott Grogin asserts, "The decision was entirely Gail Berman's. She is the entertainment president for the network, and the decision was entirely hers."

No doubt influencing Berman's decision was the poor performance of "Wonderfalls" on both Friday -- where it drew an average of 3.8 million viewers -- and Thursday, where an original episode on April 1 (originally scheduled to air Friday, April 2) couldn't even match the Friday numbers against new installments of CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and NBC's "The Apprentice."

"It didn't help that TV Guide listed the show as Friday at 9 when it had been moved to Thursday," Fuller adds. "There were a lot of contributing factors that didn't help us."

Although the show had a great deal of critical support, Fuller feels part of the reason for its lackluster showing lay in FOX's marketing strategy.

"This is an edgy romantic comedy," he says, "with a lot of rambunctious humor. That will find an audience, if the audience knows those are the elements in the show. Our audience was always very confused as to what the show was. They were marketing it as 'Felicity' in the beginning, because that's what they wanted it to be, and it's not."

Vowing to continue until "I've been told 'no' by all the networks," Fuller makes his pitch for the show's remaining unaired nine episodes.

"The episode that would have been next week kicks off all the franchise-y, arc-y stuff for the series," he says, "whereas the episodes we've aired to so far have been establishing the scenario.

"The next episode, 'Crime Dog,' kicks it off in a big way. We have Jaye's brother, who learns that she's a little bit crazy, and it starts his arc of becoming the first apostle. We have all sorts of nitty-gritty juiciness with Sharon, the lesbian Republican lawyer sister. We're hoping the tone and scope of these episodes will have a lot of promise for another network and be a tasty little treat to tempt them into picking us up.

"Any of those networks that wants to see those future episodes, just have them drop me a line, and I will send them a DVD or two."

Fuller also reminds his fans (and potential buyers), "The important thing is, we're not dead, we're in ICU."


Chris

Well theres one good piece of news today...although this is going to make me finally start to get a little irritated at our local WB and UPN affiliates who have not gotten their head out of their a$$ on digital television.

Great article, and I hope they can pull it off, but there was one part I took exception to:

Hey! We're still trying to save the existing companion show! I want both to survive!!! And if WB were to pick it up, the obviously great pairing would be with Gilmore Girls. Send One Tree Hill to Sunday or something.

Oh, and Fox.com has officially done the 'cleansening', removing all traces of Wonderfalls from the site (except the general Fox message board). The official page (www.fox.com/wonderfalls/) just shoots back to Fox.com front page now as well.

I signed the petition. I don't think the boneheads at Fox care, but maybe the folks at UPN or WB will see the potential of the show.