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arrrgg! NFL Football sucks!
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Posted by: Avian

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I haven't seen one of my favorite shows, Futurama in a LONG time. The main reason? NFL or Baseball or some other sports interruption. I turned my tv on to watch futurama and was treated to a football game with 6 minutes to go, which turned into 30 and then they decided not to show futurama at all! If I was Matt Groening I would be utterly pissed.. and well I am pissed.

I'm not anti sports, I just don't think they have a place taking over the program slots of other shows. Don't we have enough full sports channels!? There are a few ESPNs, 80kagillion fox sports channels... does it need to kill my favorite programming?!

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Posted by: Melody Chalis

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Originally posted by Avian
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I'm not anti sports, I just don't think they have a place taking over the program slots of other shows.

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Not to be insulting, but most of the people I know would say EXACTLY the opposite.

Posted by: Turtleboy

It's not Football's fault. It's the Fox Network's fault. They always schedule Futurama there, knowing that there is a 99% chance that in places that have a 4 PM game, they won't get to see it.

Fox should schedule it somewhere else.

Posted by: Todd

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Originally posted by Turtleboy
It's not Football's fault. It's the Fox Network's fault. They always schedule Futurama there, knowing that there is a 99% chance that in places that have a 4 PM game, they won't get to see it.

Fox should schedule it somewhere else.

Bingo! You are correct sir!

Posted by: dmdeane

There is a special, very deep circle of Hell, where Fox network execs are going to end up. They will be tormented for eternity by the ghosts of Futurama, The Family Guy, and The Lone Gunmen, amongst others.

Posted by: harvscar

If it's any consolation Avian, the Redskins probably would have preferred Fox switched to Futurama rather than show the rest of the game.

Posted by: Avian

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Originally posted by harvscar
If it's any consolation Avian, the Redskins probably would have preferred Fox switched to Futurama rather than show the rest of the game.

:D lol!

Posted by: Todd

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Originally posted by harvscar
If it's any consolation Avian, the Redskins probably would have preferred Fox switched to Futurama rather than show the rest of the game.

You're probably right about that. :(

Posted by: mrcoaster

It's not football you should hate. It's Fox. As mentioned, they know that time slot's going to equal pre-emption most of the time during the season. Even so, how many markets did it really affect? The NFL double-header was on CBS, so only markets getting their one Fox broadcast late (couldn't have been more than 3 late Fox games off the top of my head) would have been affected. I know that doesn't help you any, but Fox is only airing Futurama any more because they have shows in the can and they don't intend to renew it further. Futurama will probably end up on DVD sometime anyway. That's Fox for ya.

Posted by: cmontyburns

The funny thing is that once the football game ended, Fox went right to its regularly-scheduled 6:30 (CST) programming: a Simpsons repeat . If that's really more of a ratings-grabber than a new ep of Futurama, maybe Fox should look in the mirror about why the show isn't doing well -- they never air it!

Posted by: AndyK

Futurama has been scheduled for failure for years. The amazing thing is it took so long to kill it. My guess? Groening must have really pissed off someone high up in FOX corporate/scheduling. Ah, the politics of the TV/ Film corperate world, rake in the cash while !@#$ing up royally :rolleyes:

I'll still take football over Futurama!

Posted by: VinceA

Conversely I'd take Futurama over any sport any day...

Thank God that Futurama will be on Cartoon Network (starting in January if I remember right) where it can't be pushed around for the sake of sports. Of course, it might get manhandled by something else but it's less likely

Posted by: MrSpiff

Fortunately for the MAJORITY of the country, live sporting events are preferred over 30 minute cartoons. I have nothing against cartoons, I love the Simpsons and South Park and many others. But, can you imagine the insanity of chopping off the final minutes of a tight football game that has MILLIONS of fans watching to show Futurama instead? Angry mobs with torches and pitchforks come to mind.

Posted by: jhausmann

Used to be, long, long ago, that the networks would stop showing a game if they felt the outcome was already decided. Then came the "Heidi" game, where NBC stopped showing the Oakland Raiders vs. the New York Jets, on 11/17/1968.

With 65 seconds left to go in the Game, the Jets kicked a field goal to take the lead, 32-29. The ensuing kickoff took the Raiders to their 23-yard line. The Network (NBC) took the game to commercial and never went back. 9 (game) seconds and two touchdowns later the Raiders took the final lead, 43-32.

Posted by: cmontyburns

The perhaps missed point here isn't that Fox (and CBS, also a bad offender in this case last night) is refusing to cut away from the scheduled game for their regular programming. That is expected behavior. The real issue is often that their scheduled game ends, and rather than going to their regular programming at that point (with studio filler if the game ended early) they go to another game coming down to the wire and show that one until the end. People wouldn't riot if they didn't get to see the end of a game they weren't watching in the first place. If doing so gets the nets better ratings that the original programming they would have aired instead, it is a reasonable business proposition, but not a surprising result since it is self-fulfilling: the less-frequently you air a show, the more people will stop looking for it.

Posted by: DanT

And Futurama's been killed for a long time. They haven't made any new episodes in at least a couple years. They've just been airing the ones that were already completed (and paid for).

Posted by: Turtleboy

Has the new episode been posted on usenet yet? Which newsgroup would it be in?

Posted by: snoop

Cutting away isnt the problem.

Scheduling NFL games for 3 hours when I think .02579% of games actually run in 3 hours or less is the problem.

What exactly would be the problem with scheduling 3.5 or 4 hours for a game, and filling in the end with the usual inane post game crap, virtually assuring no scheduling impact?

Posted by: Dancar

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Originally posted by shannon67
Not to be insulting, but most of the people I know would say EXACTLY the opposite.

Not me!

As a NONsports fan, sports has on occasion been the bain of my TV existance.

Among my gripes:

When a game runs between 5-8 Pacific Time, prime time shows aren't seen even on the West Coast, because 5-8 is 8-11 on the East Coast. Instead of the shows we watch every week, west coast stations show old movies.

60 Minutes once ran a segment about a scandle in the San Francisco Bay Area, but no one there saw it because it was preempted by a PRE-GAME show for a PRE-SEASON football game!!! I was really pissed off because ads for this show had run on the station over a previous week, and I was looking forward to it. Why the hell do they run ads for a show they're not going to run?

There was one sport I watched because I actually participated in it: Mountain bike racing. At that time ESPN scheduled Mt. bike races at odd times, like 2:30 a.m. But when a baseball game ran long, all programing was pushed back, and instead of my bike race I'd have 60 minutes of Baseball Today, where they felt the need to show a play from EVERY DAMN GAME in the country! Has anyone noticed that a player hitting a home run looks exactly like every other player hitting a home run? They could have shown baseball plays from a few years ago and no one would know the difference.

I learned I had to program my VCR (this was 10 years ago) to record 2 hours just to be sure to capture the 30-60 minute show I wanted. 30-45 unwanted minutes of players running across home plate is great when you want to keep a season archive of bike races on VHS.

Posted by: hckylvr88

FOX has been notorious for playing this sort of game. It is one of the main reasons that "Space Above and Beyond" failed so miserably. They kept pre-empting the show and would then move it around from time slot to time slot, week to week.

Personally I don't think there are enough sports channels. I don't get enough hockey on TV. One more sports channel might change that. :) Or at least the NHL could sell the rights to more games to other channels. Instead, they took a "less is more" approach and fans of the game like myself and many others are left in the cold.