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Skriven 2006-08-10 12:48:00 av Robert E Starr JR (6426.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Help me out, please?
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>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:30:54 -0400, Vorlonagent wrote
(in article <poSdnfYI-9a18EbZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@comcast.com>):

> 
> "Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message 
> news:1155169892.972031.41920@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> Michael Malloy wrote:
>> 
>>> If I may suggest, I think I know why "Legend of the Rangers" didn't do
>>> so well. It had nothing to do with football.
>> 
>> If I may suggest, you don't.  ;-)
>> 
>> 1)  "Legend of the Rangers" did OK.  The ratings were in line with
>> previous "B5" movies, even *with* the effect of the football game on
>> the east coast.  They weren't the spectacular numbers (ratings of 4+)
>> that Sci-Fi had acheived with previous heavily promoted originals
>> airing in the December-January time frame (like the two "Dune"
>> mini-series.)  Absent the football game the ratings would have been
>> somewhat higer.
> 
> OTOH, there had to be people like me.  I watched its TNT debut.  I did not 
> come away wanting more from the "renegade rangers", nor did I tune in for 
> any Sci-Fi run of TLOTR.  <<

"Legend of the Rangers" never ran on TNT -- it debuted on SciFi.

>>>> 3)  It wasn't the ratings *per se* that prevented the pilot from going
>> to series, and it certainly wasn't the cast or the characters.  The
>> problem was purely a business disagreement between Sci-Fi and Warner
>> Bros., and it went back to before the start of filming on the project.
>> Sci-Fi wanted to own a piece of the series, Warner didn't want tos
>> share its toys.  Result:  the ratings weren't good enough to justify
>> Sci-Fi doing a series they didn't own a share of.  If they'd had an
>> ownership interest they almost certainly would have taken a chance on
>> the series.  If the ratings had been better, it would have been worth
>> doing the series even if they didn't own the show.  Given that neither
>> was the case, they passed.
>> 
>> The notion that "Rangers" "failed" because fans somehow didn't like, as
>> evidenced by ratings or feedback to Sci-Fi, simply has no basis in
>> reality.
> 
> ....unless Sci-Fi was sitting on the fence about whether to do a series.  At 
> that point, fan reaction could have tipped things against the show. <<

No, it couldn't have.  All SciFi was looking at was the bottom line.  Fan 
reaction means nothing, unless you're talking about the highly unusual 
situation of millions of letters being received in favor of some production 
(because each letter = "x" amount of potential viewers).  But in lieu of some 
campaign I missed wherein SciFi received millions of letters asking them to 
_not_ pick up LotR, it sounds to me like you're talking about some vague 
"temperature taking" on SciFi's part by looking at what fans are saying on 
message boards.  Which means nothing to them.

Amy
                                                                               
                 
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