Fringe, the modern day
X-Files
, is on the move to Friday nights in it's mid-season premiere. Beginning January 21, 2011 from 9 to 10pm, the show will kick off the first episode entitled "Firefly."
If you have been a fan of
Firefly (2002-2003)
then you would understand the joke. As soon as they have been moved to a Friday night line-up, the plug was pulled. IT WAS CANCELED! Has it hit you yet? The only other time we heard of the show following the cancellation was the movie to conclude the series,
Serenity
.
Obviously, the creators of Fringe are trying to make the best of this but fans are expressing harsh disappointment in Fox and even threaten to boycott the network if they cancel this show:
"Not at all surprising. FOX either never pays attention to it's good shows or they don't care about the fan base or how well the show is doing. Moving the show to Friday is a death sentence." - Varoon Deo-Singh
"I wish I could say I was happy about it, but I'm not. I see the beginning of the end. Alas poor Fringe, we hardly knew ye." - Pierce Piper
"If you kill Fringe, I will absolut...ely NOT begin watching another new FOX show, you just have way too much of a history of killing quality television in favor of mindless dreck. If you had good sense, you would put Fringe after House...." - Blair Tarleton
Why is Fox making the move? My prediction is that it is because of ratings... for Glee. Because Glee has high ratings they are keeping their time slot therefore moving American Idol to Wednesday and Thursday and moving Fringe to Friday's. If this is true then we know who Fox's target audience is and it begins with teen.
(Quotes were taken from the Fringe Fan Page on Facebook.) Search Amazon.com for Fringe
