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>>>I am proud to say even when I was very much a kid I thought My Three Sons, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriett, the Donna Reed Show etc sucked. the idea that adults watched them kind of scares me and makes me want to firebomb nursing homes.
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>>>But we live a world where they cancelled Arrested Development, Action!, Firefly ...
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>>>And David Milch stopped doing Deadwood so he could do John from Cincinnati.
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>>>AAARGH
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>>And didn't 'John from Cincinnati' inhale deeply? We were so torqued off about Deadwood ending. Firefly we kinda expected - having lived through Babylon 5 and the networks.
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>But Firefly had a killer cast who all landed on their feet and the brilliant Joss Whedon behind it. Summer Glau, Gina Torres, Baldwin, Nathan Fillion. Sci Fi and a Western. How can that not run for 10 years ( of course we have to make room on the airwaves for Howie Do it, Deal or no Deal and Fear Factor. ) Makes you question the premise behind popular democracy

My understanding is when Whedon pitched Firefly, Fox loved it - when they went into production, Fox started going "Wait a minute! This is WAY to much Western and not enough T&A!!!! - we mean SciFI!!!" and starting putzing with it