dpac 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 Basically what happened? Only saw the first episode and it was kind of funny, but not great. So was it cancelled? And who was the mystery decision maker that was suppose the biggest surprise in reality history? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 What happened is that it was on Fox, a network whose strategy has always seemed to be "throw tons of stuff at a wall and see what sticks. And then draw lots to see which shows that stuck get renewed". In fact, I'm in amazement that Arrested Development is on Fox, simply because it's good (and wasn't cancelled). And yeah, that's the only Fox show I watch (besides the Simpsons on occasion). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the max 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 And 24. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 I sit corrected. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDH257 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2005 (edited) From TVtome.com December 15, 2004 FOX's Big Fat Obnoxious Scheduling Fiasco: After the next new episode on December 19, FOX's My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss will go on hiatus for at least three weeks. On December 26, the day after Christmas, FOX will air repeats of King of the Hill. On January 2, FOX will air the movie True Lies. January 9 sees the the 2 hour premiere of the return of the critically praised series 24, once again nominated for a Golden Globe. By January 16, even more viewers will likely have likely locked the show in the Do Not Disturb section of their mental vault, assuming it hasn't yet been cancelled. This means that unless the number of planned airings is radicallly clipped, the show's finale will not air January 30, 2005. December 16, 2004 Next New "Obnoxious" Pulled: FOX has pulled the next My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss from their schedule for next week. Repeats of Malcolm in the Middle and King of the Hill wil air instead. December 30, 2004 Looks like FOX's My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss won't return in January after all, unless there's an unexpected time-slot change. In preparation for the return of new episodes of Family Guy to the FOX schedule, classic repeats of that show will be airing at 9 and 9:30 P.M. on Sunday nights beginning January 16. January 09, 2005 FOX's official Family Guy site now shows the program airing on Sunday nights through at least February 20. January 09, 2005 FOX's My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss is mentioned in TV Tim, a popular colum in the Winston-Salem Journal that is made available online. In the column, a reader asks what happend to the show and TV Tim suggests that it might eventually be shown on FX, or made available on FOX's official website. I only saw part of this show once when Arrested Development was going to start late because of football, so I set my tape to record an extra hour. FOX has done this before, they canceled a show where a women had to decide which of the guys competing for her were gay before it ended. And who was the mystery decision maker that was suppose the biggest surprise in reality history? I remember Ain't It Cool News saying that it was going to be reavealed to be a chimp. Reality TV is so cheap to make that the networks can throw shit up against a wall and see what sticks. When it flops (The Will, Who's your Daddy, Joe Milllionare 2, and all the ones less that no one rememebers), the networks act embaressed, ashamed, and say they went too far. When it's a hit (Survivor, Joe Millionare 1, The Bachalor, The Apprentice) they act like they're geniuses and instinctively knew what the audience was looking for. Edit: Speak of the Devil... Failed Fox Reality Shows Go to Web Fri Jan 14, 8:40 PM ET By Joal Ryan Last spring, Fox decided not enough people were watching Playing It Straight on free TV. Nine months later, it wants to see how many people are willing to watch the canceled reality series as a pay-per-view download. All eight episodes of Playing It Straight, including the five unaired installments, will be available for $1.99 a pop, or $9.99 for the whole season, at Fox.com starting Monday. "This is an experiment," Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said Friday. "We're going to see what the response is. There was a fairly vocal fan base for Playing It Straight. This is simply an opportunity to test the system." In a lesser test of audience endurance, Fox will give away the final five episodes of the failed reality spoof My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss on its Website. Those shows, which may be posted within the next two weeks, will be able to be viewed for free. Playing It Straight, in which a female college student was asked to sort through 14 men, most of them gay, to find the straight one who would be the love of her prime-time life, aired last March. Fans complained its Friday time slot doomed the show from the start. My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, starring William August as a faux Donald Trump out to torment would-be business tycoons who thought they were being put through the paces by a real Donald Trump, bombed in its November debut despite heavy promotion during the World Series (news - web sites). The show averaged 4 million viewers in its five prime-time broadcasts. As reality shows have faltered this season, Fox, in particular, has gotten creative in figuring out how to extricate itself from bad situations, while serving the viewer who, for example, must know if Jackie the coed found her heterosexual. Last summer, the network used its Website to post recaps of all the unaired Playing It Straight episodes. (Not-quite spoiler: Jackie's gaydar failed her not. In the finale, she selected Banks, a California software consultant who likes girls, as her go-to guy.) And last fall, Fox burned off remaining episodes of its KO'd boxing reality series, The Next Great Champ, on one of its sports cable outlets. NBC pulled a similar stunt with the most recent edition of Last Comic Standing, shipping off its season finale to Comedy Central. Fox did not consider Playing It Straight or My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss for cable runs, Grogin said. Earlier this week, CBS wrote off The Will, a reality show about kinfolk battling for an Arizona rancher's property, after just one little-watched episode. There was no word on whether the network planned to announce the The Will winner somewhere, somehow. Or if anyone cared. Edited January 15, 2005 by MDH257 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
