Originally Posted By: Tim
Originally Posted By: Dignan
From what I can tell, all the networks are nearly identical in their behavior: a show lives or dies based on how many viewers it gets in the first 3-5 episodes. It doesn't matter one ounce to them how passionate the fans are about a show, as long as there's a lot of them.

Passionate fans don't bring in the advertisement revenue, the number of fans does.

Well, yeah, I don't disagree with you. I think you missed my point.

It's not an injustice to cancel an unpopular show, no matter how good it is. My point was more about how they cancel them. Really, how difficult would it be to give a show a chance to wrap up its story? The good will they'd garner would be worth it, IMO.
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