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January 5th, 2004, 12:40 PM
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Great Honored Warrior (ret.) BG Fandom Leader (ret.)
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Sandy Grushow (FOX) relieved of duties
According to a breaking story at DRUDGE REPORT, "FOX TV topper Sandy Grushow relieved of duties, DRUDGE has learned, Murdoch concerned with direction of net, ratings..."
Grushow was responsible for not green-lighting Tom DeSanto's "Battlestar Galactica" show, instead opting for "Firefly" which was ill-placed within the FOX television lineup (which faced poor scheduling and marketing which ultimately doomed that show).
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January 5th, 2004, 12:45 PM
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It will be interesting to see who takes his place.
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January 5th, 2004, 12:46 PM
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I read at Variety that Grushow left to go into production. His company is called Phase Two and will be based at Fox.
Peter
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January 5th, 2004, 01:35 PM
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Golden Parachute.
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January 5th, 2004, 03:08 PM
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he really treated firefly with an almost disdain. he killed the pilot which was pretty good and made them create a more actiony episode reeeaaally quickly. So they got off to a bad start. Then he killed advertising for the show. So unless you were watching the show beforehand, you never saw a commercial for Firefly.
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January 5th, 2004, 03:09 PM
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Thanks Michael for the news!
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January 5th, 2004, 03:54 PM
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I thought Firefly was terribly boring but you could see there was some quality to the writing.
My wife got the DVD and I had a chance to watch it in order.
It really grew on me so now I would definetly go see a Firefly movie.
Space Above and Beyond suffered from the same treatment as Firefly by Fox.
I'm afraid Desanto's Galactica would have also got it the same way.
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January 5th, 2004, 05:17 PM
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Here's to Sci-Fi's Galactica
Well- I'm glad Galactica ended up on Sci-Fi.
It will get treated better, especially if a first season order is in the works...
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January 5th, 2004, 05:35 PM
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Re: Here's to Sci-Fi's Galactica
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Originally posted by koenigrules
Well- I'm glad Galactica ended up on Sci-Fi.
It will get treated better, especially if a first season order is in the works...
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Knowing sci fi they will probably make a show that is even worse than the dribble they gave us on December 8.
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January 5th, 2004, 05:51 PM
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Warrior
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Beauty in Eye of Beholder
To some dribble, to others gold!
Ah well....
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January 5th, 2004, 05:52 PM
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koenigrules.
Cool handle. I am also a Space 1999 fan. Martin Landau was outstanding in the role.
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January 5th, 2004, 05:54 PM
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Warrior
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I Thought So Too
I did like Season 1 over 2 of 1999.
Too trekky the second year.
I got all the DVDs & still think the first year holds up better than the second...
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January 5th, 2004, 06:46 PM
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Hindsight
Too little too late for that I guess ... so Fox only now realizes that Sandy's "gold" was not nearly golden enough ...
Lack of direction, bad ratings, killing shows ... he should apply at Sci Fi. I'm sure there's a job for him there. 
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January 5th, 2004, 06:47 PM
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Firefly
I thought Firefly was incredibly entertaining. I probably would not have bought the DVD set, except it's surprisingly inexpensive. Definitely worth buying.
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January 5th, 2004, 07:19 PM
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Whee! we got discussioning again: going to try copying this thread to discussion and deleting the discussion posts from the news thread.
FIREFLY's DVD set ROCKS! I liked "Out of Gas" a lot.
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January 5th, 2004, 08:00 PM
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Commodore The Andorian Simpson
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I wonder if this guy had anything to do with the creative decisions taken about FOx programming in general. If he's the one that cancelled FUturama, then I have but one thing to say to him: Your ass is mine, bitch!
*wondering how that'll make it through the word censor...* 
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January 5th, 2004, 08:12 PM
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"Gravity,you win again."
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May've been the losing side. I'm still not convinved it was the wrong one.
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January 5th, 2004, 08:38 PM
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Commodore The Andorian Simpson
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I love that line... 
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January 5th, 2004, 10:02 PM
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Maybe Grushow is possessed by the spirit of Fred Freiberger??????
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January 5th, 2004, 10:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by jewels
Whee! we got discussioning again: going to try copying this thread to discussion and deleting the discussion posts from the news thread.
FIREFLY's DVD set ROCKS! I liked "Out of Gas" a lot.
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i loved out of gas too!
Its probably one of the really smart space scifi episodes that really reflects a realistic situation. You got a cheap ship, something stupid breaks and it dies in space. There is no rayguns, nor covert alien spys that change shape, just a ten dollar item that breaks and threatens the life of everyone onboard.

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January 6th, 2004, 06:48 PM
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%good things come in two2
I hope Hammer is next on line over at sciwhy! Firefox just needed another year to get going. I didnt watch buffy untill year two!
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January 6th, 2004, 07:18 PM
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Thanks for the news Micheal. Maybe the next person who
they bring in will bring the desanto/larson project back ....
....... well I can hooooope.
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