Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:19:13 -0500
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

That depends on whether UPN was able to market the show to non-UPN
affiliates.  --Tom Haughey

Neil Ottenstein wrote:

>--- thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net> wrote:
>
>>I believe Enterprise is falling prey to the cheap
>>profits of reality
>>TV.  Paramount doesn't want it.  UPN doesn't.  CBS
>>doesn't.
>>
>
>It just doesn't get the ratings that such an expensive
>show needs even for UPN.  UPN's ratings are pitiful
>over all, but the costs of the series don't justify
>keeping it in production apparently.
>
>They also looked at the big dropoff in ratings from
>the first episodes where they had poor stories.
>
>If they had some of the writing from this season that
>first season they probably wouldn't have had such a
>dropoff.
>
>> If the series goes
>>the last three years of its projected life there
>>will probably be
>>another series born to replace it (once financial
>>tides shift on the
>>network level).  If it ends prematurely, I believe
>>that will be the end
>>of the big budget SciFi series.
>>
>
>There is practically no chance that it will go beyond
>this year.  The episodes and publicity say "the final
>episodes."  That's it.  There is no more.
>
>Paramount is hoping that if they let the franchise
>rest for a few years then they might be able to get a
>big audience at the beginning and perhaps even hold on
>to them.
>
>>If it dies, who's
>>likely to want to
>>shell out two million per episode in the future for
>>a really
>>well-scripted show chocked full of expensive special
>>effects?  --Tom Haughey
>>
>
>What's the budget of some of the succesful genre or
>near-genre shows on TV?  Lost, Alias, and 24?
>
>Neil
>