Quote of the Day

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Via this article at io9 regarding how cult-TV-show fans go through the five stages of grief with regards to their favorite shows' constant battles with low ratings and cancellation, specifically with regards to Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, comes this info from the Twitter account of the Syfy newtwork's senior VP of digital Craig Engler, regarding what appears to have become a loud fan-demand toward Joss, that is that he go make something over for SyFy and stop dealing with stupid Fox (yeah, I maybe have said something along those lines before):

"Whenever some other network cancels a sci-fi show, I've noticed a distinct trends in the type of tweets I receive about it: 80% Polite: Could you please pick up X show? I think it'd be a great fit with your network! 8% Analytic: X shows has more viewers than your show Y so why wouldn't you pick it up! 5% Bribe: I'll star watching/will watch more of your network if you pick up X show! 4% Less Polite: Why don't you pick up X show? It's better than any of the crap you air! 3% Blame: You suck for canceling X show and/or not picking it up from another network! (OFTEN SENT IN ALL CAPS!!!!!)

Leaving aside viewership, the biggest issues are, we simply can't afford network budgets and no one has even offered it to us AFAIK. Then you have to consider, it had much more exposure on Fox than it would ever get on Syfy, but the audience never quite materialized. We'd of course LOVE to do a project with Joss Whedon for Syfy that was affordable. Overall we're big fans of his work... If we could hold [the audience size from the Fox airings] (doubtful), it *could* be a good number if the budget were remotely in our ballpark."

So there's that, from the horse's mouth, and whatnot.
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