Well crap. I hate the world.

I'm watched four shows this year - Angel (gone), Wonderfalls (gone), Arrested Develoment (teetering on gone), and Joan of Arcadia (okay, not gone, but also by far the worst of the four).

So sad.

Should magically get a billion dollars to self-fund this show for years and years on DVD so I could watch and watch and watch.

This was easily the best TV show in years. But instead, I guess we'll end up with World's Scariest Makeovers IX or some other nightmare.

I can not believe they cancelled it after just one airing in the new timeslot (a timeslot pitting it against two of the highest rated shows).

Hopefully, one of the cable channels will run the remaining episodes. And no matter what, I would definitely buy a DVD set if it's released.

Tim,

This is terrible news. Fox did not even give this series a chance. They didn't put it in the fall lineup saying it would be a midseason replacement, then they they put it in towards the end of the season. From where I sit, they never supported it from the beginning.

Try another venue, another network. This show is worth saving. To be honest, I find FOX, the WB and UPN to be very flaky networks. If they don't get the numbers right off the bat, they cancel and it sux.

Maybe HBO, Sci Fi, USA or some other network will air all the episodes and order more. It can't hurt to try. There are fans out there that support the show.

I want to thank you for a wonderful show. I wish you luck gettng it on another network. If you do, I will be there to watch.

Sorry they did it to you again, Tim. You guys did a great job, but the networks have zero patience for a show that's not easily categorized, defined, and pigeon-holed. They just keep breaking our hearts.

Get the DVDs out there, and we'll do for them what we did for Firefly. Maybe eventually the suits will figure it out.

We'll be watching whatever you do next. Tonight, have a drink or six on us and know the fans respect quality even if Fox does not.

I hate to see this end. As Misty Mue said -Perhaps the fans can help nudge another station to pick up this great show.

I hate everything right now. I'm sorry Tim... You keep making great tv shows in a world where there are less and less of those and it just pisses me off to no end that they keep getting yanked! Whatever you work on in the future though, I am freaking there.

I am going to drink a lot right now (well okay, I was already gonna go do that with friends... but still!). I'll toast to Jaye...

Well, this just takes the bleepin' cake.

Tim, I feel for you and everyone whose worked so hard on this excellent show.

I don't know what TV is coming to. Can we start a network for people with brains?

Uggh, I feel kind of sick. I'm so sorry, for you, Tim, and for all of the great crew who came together to shine on this show: Caroline Dhavernas, Katie Finneran, Tracie Thoms, William Sadler, Tyron Leitso, Lee Pace, and last, but certainly not least, Diana Scarwid. Together and individually, these actors and actresses generated some kind of wonderful.

Just recently, I described to a friend the feeling of dread that had started to grow in me after the pilot as I found myself falling so in love with this show and understood how unlikely it would be for this show to survive, considering how FOX was handling its schedule and promotion: I described it as coming upon something exquisitely drawn in the sand and watching helplessly as the tide creeps closer and closer to washing it away. Impermanence, thou art a mournful fact of life. Still, why the hell couldn't the impermanence of this show at least last as long as 5 seasons? The buck's the bottom line, net execs yell. Guess what, you myopic twits? Sometimes a show that starts off slow can actually become commercially viable and take off like a rocket, if you have patience! Geez! Wasn't The X-Files a good lesson giver? Please, FOX, take 45 minutes and watch an episode. Watch it as a viewer, not an office inhabitant. You'll see it sparkle with life that is so rare on TV today. How can you, with good conscience, give up on it when it obviously has such great possibility? Please visit the message boards on your own website and everywhere else, like IMDB.com. You'll see the interest and affection that people are bursting with about a quirky television show that is both generous with style and substance.

Geez, I don't even know that anyone from FOX will actually read any of those words. I hope, at the very least, you do, Tim. Pass on my warmest regards to everybody at Wonderfalls.

Here's hoping DVD will resurrect all the unaired episodes. That won't be enough, but it'll have to do, I guess.

I can't believe how upset I am right now.. its like I found this incredible gem that makes my friday/now thursday nights better.. where I can laugh and giggle.. and now its being taken away because a bunch of people who don't know good taste if it beat them in the face....

You guys made an incredible series, and I'm so glad that I have had this chance to see it. I will be writing Fox a strongly worded letter, but right now.. this is all about praising the wonderful show called "Wonderfalls."

If you manage to find another station to play it, I will follow. If you make the DVDs I will purchase.

But I must go and surpress my homicidal rage at this moment because a stupid network prefers crappy reality shows over something that requires real talent.

I'll join Eric G. in his toast to Jaye and her wacky inanimate objects. Amazing work, and a job well done.

I look forward to seeing the rest of Jaye's adventure in any way, shape or form.. (even if i have to resort to reading fanfiction. =P)

For shame, FOX. For shame.

Who the hell do I write or call at Fox? This is completely ridiculous. First of all, don't ever air a new show on a Friday night. That's the ONE night of the week that most working people can actually leave their home to do something other than watch TV, and it's no wonder the ratings were low. The show was awesome, though, and it infuriates me that we're going to be stuck with another ripoff, asinine reality series.

I hope someone releases this on DVD. It's a shame that I'll be putting money in Fox's wallet, though, by purchasing it. This is definitely a disappointing day for creative television.

Though it cannot compare to how devastated you all feel to have your work treated so shabbily.....

I am bereft....

But know that there are a significant number of fans who do recognize your gifts....

After having been hit on the head repeatedly this season, I finally DO get the message...

Creativity is not appreciated on mainstean American TV...

Come to Montreal sweetie... We will try to show you all a lovely time. Wonderfalls did score significant numbers in major Canadian markets...[and that is not a contradiction in terms]

tim,

i am so sorry! i just loved wonderfalls and can't believe that fox gave the show no chance.

what's up with these networks? do they really think i'm gonna watch reality show crap? nuh-uh. i'll just take my $$$s elsewhere. advertisers, i hope you're listening.

:>(

But there've only been *four* episodes aired. How the hell can anyone make a decisojn based on that? Even Firefly, which was treated appallingly, got like twelve episodes. How can you cnacel a show after four?

Your show was amazing and I from now on will never watch the Fox network again. It is insane that a smart, different show like yours can get screwed over like it has, when there is so much mindless CRAP that on TV thrives. Thanks for the great work on the episodes we got to see! I truly hope we will get to see the rest of the episodes somehow.

I am so upset to hear this horrible news. I honestly don't know what is wrong with the networks anymore. They don't give quality shows a chance to grow. Wonderfalls was an excellent show and I will truly miss it. I hope that there is someway that we will get to see the remaining episodes.

This is heartbreaking but not surprising. TV is a dead medium now, IMHO. If the 13 eps are already filmed, is it feasible to offer them as downloadable over the Internet? For a fee, I guess, like music downloading. Grasping at straws, I guess. My heart goes out to the whole creative team, I hope it helps that we all noticed that WF was something special. TV networks are the new Wolfram and Hart.

It's like a horrible episode of deja vu for me. I went through this exact same thing last year when Fux cancelled Keen Eddie, another brilliant, funny, awesome touching w/a fabulous lead that was axed WAY TOO SOON and now is airing on Bravo. But I still stick by my old tune, Tim: can't you sell this to the WB? Please?????????????????? At least try, even if you have to sell your soul to Wolfram & Hart or the cow creamer.

I feel *so* bad for yor project and everyone involved: the writers, directors, cast, and crew. Wonderfalls was simply wonderful, every ep aired a gem.

Something similar happened with David Greenwalt's Miracles last year; perhaps this is the death knell of quality TV. Leaving? Probably for the "suits" more reality TV, perhaps another plastic surgery show to fill out Extreme Makeover, I Want To Have A Famous Face, Plastic Surgery Before & After, and The Swan. Or maybe yet another police procedural or two (hey wait, the excellent Karen Sisco was cancelled, so that category ain't even safe). I guess it's never too late for a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? revival to fill out the old programming block.

I hope your show finds a Fast Eddie-style home somewhere. Anyway, thanks for bringing a dose of kismet, smart satire, and heart into my life with Wonderfalls. Basic cable will never be the same.

Tim,

Thanks for a Wonderfall show :) The writing was what I would expect from a Joss graduate. I'm just sorry that the viewers of American television would rather watch mindless drivel than a compelling, intelligent show like Wonderfalls. If it makes any difference, we bought the Firefly DVDs and I know we would buy Wonderfall DVDs.

Good luck in the future, I'll be watching for you.

*sigh* I rarely watch TV these days, and this was one of the very few shows I made it a point to watch faithfully. I sincerely hope it makes to DVD, if not another network.

Tim, thank you for giving us such a wonderful show.

I'm sorry Tim. I loved your work on Firefly, and Angel, and WONDERFALLS was easily one of the best shows I've seen in my life.

So wonderful and ultimately charming. While I think FOX really dropped the ball by airing this on Friday nights, I do admit they gave it a chance with the Thursday airings, but would the post-american idol spot have hurt? Just one episode after american idol for 2 weeks before moving it to thursday/friday would have given the show a chance to reach people. I'm betting most people didn't turn it on, and turn it off.... most people probably have no idea that the show was even on TV...

You know, maybe this is a sign. TV really has turned to crap in the last few years... I watch almost nothing anymore.

Six Feet Under (notice...not on network TV...)
Alias
Gilmore Girls

Absolutely nothing else out there is worth my time and energy anymore. Well, at least we have "The Swan" "American Idol" "Give Your Dog A Make-Over" "Build A Prom Date" "Grandparent Matchmaker!" (I'm probably giving them ideas...)

Not to mention FOX should be disgusted with themselves for being so stupid about the lesbian sub-plot. Because it's two real-life women who love each other... they can't kiss... but if they were two random straight girls just doing it on a trashy teen show... it would be okay? Shame on them.

Good luck finding a new place to air WONDERFALLS Tim, and good luck with any future projects you might have. :(

That's awful! I've been telling everyone about it since it first aired, I've just fallen in love with the show and the characters.

I'm going to keep my eyes open for it's reappearance on another station.

Ah what the hell. I think I'm gonna just throw my TV out the window.

Well, this just sucks. Wonderfalls is the only show I have been excited about in a long time. It is pretty bad when a couch potato can't find something to watch and would rather just turn the TV off. P.S. I would buy a DVD.

I really liked Wonderfalls. Sorry to see it gone after such a short run. It's getting so there's not many shows with good stories left to watch...Let us know when the powers that be approve a DVD (unlikely, but stranger things have happened).

Tim, I'd buy a DVD in a heartbeat. This show affected me more than anything I've watched in years.

P. S. If you can't get a DVD together, please leak the rest of the episodes on the internet! That's what it's there for!

thank you, tim for "wonderfalls"...

if we all can do anything...just holler. you know we're here for any life or future that may be left for "wonderfalls"...

and of course for anything you do in the future.

best of luck to you and the whole cast and crew.

how sad... my husband and I both just fell in love with this show. RIP Buffy, Angel and Wonderfalls... after hearing the news about WF we're going TV- free immediately after the Angel finale. This really SUCKS! :-(

I am so sorry. I'm sick and tired of the networks stomping out quality tv. Screw ratings! i'm pretty sure they're making enough in commercials (that take up most of the screen time anyways anymore...) to keep living quite comfortably...

Would it kill them to have some CLASS and PRIDE in what they air? It's sickening. I can count on *one* Smile-Time-Puppet-Angel hand how many shows left that are actually worth watching.

Wonderfalls will always be near and dear to my heart--if it is any consolation at all, the smooshed lion will never leave my list of favourite things in this world.

Thank you for braving the nasty waters of modern day television to bring such wonderful stories and characters to life.

I'll be watching for the DVD set--the sets are getting to be pretty much all i watch anymore. :)

WE LOVE YOU. X's O's and adoration for all involved in Wonderfalls.

What a shame! I started watching this show after the great review in Entertainment Weekly, plus I wanted to see how my hometown area (Buffalo) would be treated. I loved it - a series akin to My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks. I hope you can get the DVDs out somehow. Good luck to you.

I'm so sorry for every one involved in this programme, this is sickening news, it really is.

You made a beautiful and charming show, you just made it for the wrong network. Fox are obviously not willing to nurture a show to the success that it deserves, if it's not an instant hit then they drop it and reduce our collective IQs with yet more reality television rubbish.

What has happened to 'Wonderfalls' is symptomatic of so many things that are wrong with the networks, fox especially. It's hard to understand how they could make this decision, it really is baffling.

If only you had made this series for HBO I'm sure it would still be on the air and giving the likes of six feet under a run for their money.

Please give our collective best wishes to everyone involved with the show and our thanks for all their efforts, good luck with whatever comes next, I'll be sending some thoughts of a different type fox's way.

idiots idiots idiots.

ruined my month.

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This is so unfortunate, but not really unexpected. As soon as it was announced that Fox would be debutting the show as a mid-season replacement with a Friday night time slot, it was pretty obvious that the network wasn't going to give the show the support it needed.

As a still relatively young network, you'd hope that Fox would take more chances with new shows and give them time to develop an audience. Hell, the network probably wouldn't be around now if they hadn't given that opportunity to shows like MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN, THE SIMPSONS, THE X-FILES, and so on.

I'm still hoping that WONDERFALLS ends up somewhere else where it will be appreciated. There's too few good shows left on television to be losing them at the rate they're coming to an end.

Why the hell do all the good shows get cancelled?!!!

What the hell was fox thinking putting this against the apprentance?

What the hell is fox ever thinking?!?

Is it wrong to cry?

Oh, that totally sucks.

I hope the episodes still in the can find a home, somewhere, anywhere. FOX is one of the dumbest networks - finding interesting shows, failing to support them well in the schedule, and then killing them prematurely.

GO FOX!

I'm so sorry. It was smart, funny, lightning sharp. No wonder it was quickly rejected. Next up on Fox: Syphllis Island!!
If there's good in the universe, you will get another venue and this series will continue on for a long time.

I have honestly been looking for a show like this for a long time, a show that is for mature people over 18 who don't care about lame, teen angst shows anymore. I really do love this show, and if it comes down to a DVD set being released, I will definitely be buying it. I suppose if a show contains too much intellect, creativity and wit, Fox won't air it. ;o) If so, they underestimate many of their viewers.

Tim, I am so sorry for you and the cast and crew...

I fell in love with your work on Firefly, and tuned into Wonderfalls because of you.

I wasn't disappointed.

Another first-rate show, squashed by Fox, the bastards.

I want this show on DVD--seems that's just about all I watch, anymore.

Best wishes for you all in future endeavors.

Oh dear. So sorry, Tim. Play with the beagle tonight and then, tomorrow, call the SciFi Channel. I'd love to see the arc finish.

Dammit, I had gotten hooked on this show!

As TV Writer for www.eclipsemagazine.com, I considered "Carnivale" and "Joan of Arcadia" the best new series on cable and network TV respectively.

Had "Wonderfalls" debuted in the fall, as originally scheduled, I would have named it the best new series cable or network.

Right now, I am positively furious with FOX.

I hope enough of an outpouring happens that FOX will deign to release "Wonderfalls - The complete Series" on DVD with a bunch of bells and whistles.

Holding my breath? Not so much.

Damn! Those were three of the best TV Episodes I've ever seen [and I watched some "Twilight Zone" classics in realtime].

My sincere condolences and extended frustrations!

Tim,

So sorry to hear what happened. My wife and I started from the very first episode and just fell in love with the show.

Who are the morons running the networks anyways? I cannot believe that they didn't even give this show a proper chance. Dumbasses all of them. I hope they fry!!!!

What is going on with TV these days? Good shows get canned for what more reality tv? Friday night is one of the hardest nights for anyshow to do well on. After only 3 weeks I was really getting into this show. To the point I forgot about CSI. It was some of the most interesting tv I have seen in a long time. Each person I got to watch this show got hooked. I hope you can find another home for this show. But it seems that most networks want pap these days.

I've been sitting here all evening letting this news soak in while flipping through channels on my tv.

It's just so pathetic that something as beautiful and charming, something with so much potential as 'Wondefalls' has been cancelled while I cycle through crappy, unimaginative show after crappy, unimaginative show that has been around for generations...

I can't believe how dumb fox are, I feel like banging my head against the table in frustration, what is this world coming to? Corporations like fox are creating a society of lazy consumers scared of thinking for themselves.

So sorry for everyone involved with this fantastic show, it was shaping up to be one of those rare series where all the right talent comes together to create something unforgettable. I hope you all know that for every one of us that leaves a comment here there are a myriad of others out there feeling the same way.

If only this show had been on cable.

I really loved this show. It was one of the few I actually looked forward to see what might happen next.

I'm sorry they decided to do this.

Hey Tim,

Sorry that the Fox execs have shown their ignorance, yet again, in cancelling a show that was a brilliant piece of artwork. Art at its highest. I look forward to your next scripted endeavor.

Bring on the dvds.

Tim, if your future work continues to be of the same quality as Wonderfalls then there's no way you can fail. Quality like this speaks for itself.

I wasn't on board for Firefly or the seasons of Angel that you worked on, but I'll be taking a closer look at your work in the future. Good luck Tim.

Thanks for your work on the show.

I'm sorry. This is just ridiculous. As someone else said, even Firefly got eleven episodes to air, for Christ's sake. Four? Four? AND TRU CALLING lives on??

I want DVDs. And please put the music video on them. I love that thing.

This sucks entirely.

As a long-time Caroline fan, i was delighted that not only she starred on a major show like that, but also that it was well-casted, brilliant, daring and totally unpredictable.

This is not really surprising, but still i'm sad, quality isn't relevant in this world.

I'm thinking the show still has its place somewhere, on a less "popular" "spot". I'm glad i taped the 4 episodes, but it would be hard to accept never to see the remaining episodes already produced.

In an ideal world, this little gem would be releasing its 5-year special edition box-set in 2009, but no.

Hey, even my mom, who doesn't know english, watches with me. She watched because Caroline is from here and we've seen her since she was young, but she kept watching because it's brilliant, and it also has its touching moments that we never anticipate.

It's quite a hard time in my life right now, and that hour every week really made me feel good, plus the few additional times i've watched each episode.

I'm sure the whole crew and cast know that you were all part of something totally magical, thank you for making this for us, and shame on those who killed it.

I only saw two episodes of this show and I loved them. Television shows are becoming a wasteland of bad, boring, and utterly emotionless garbage. It seems hopeless to become excited about a good show because it will soon desert you. Maybe the suits will one day realize that if the critics like it then might as well not air it because the public probably won’t watch it.

The world is becoming a place where mediocrity is the bar to be reached and genius is to be despised. Television is echoing the sentiments of the world.

A DVD release would be great, but they probably won’t sell well. Because of this and because the shows have already been taped the production company (or whomever owns the rights) could make them available for download. Charge a small fee if need be. I’d rather have them on DVD, though.

Wow, there's a lot of love in this room. It's no wonder. Tim and the team have created a monumental show. The mental midgets at F*x just didn't get it. Or because they didn't get it, didn't want it around to admit they didn't get it.

I definitely want to see WF on DVD.

Un- ****ing- believable. God dammit, this is the same thing- THE EXACT SAME THING- that happened to the masterpiece known as John Doe. THE EXACT SAME THING!! Oh, wait, no. It isn't.

John Doe got a full season before it got pulled. Wonderfalls got FOUR ****ING EPISODES BEFORE THE PLUG OF PURE BRILLIANCE GETS RIPPED RIGHT OUT OF THE WALL!! Which, unfortuenantly, IS OWNED BY COMPLETE AND TOTAL MORONS!!

Alright, time to turn the psychopathic rage-o'-meter down for a moment. It's been said, what, 80 times before hand, but it really needs to be said 80 more times. I, and anyone who even caught a small glimpse of the brilliance of Wonderfalls, am deeply and truly sorry. We are sorry that most TV networks suck an incredible amount these days. We are sorry that these incredibly sucky networks exist, for they are only incredibly sucky thanks to the incredibly sucky network execs that run them.

Money. That's what it's all about, ya know?

Network Suit #1: Hey boss, you know that funny, intellegent, and compelling show we have?

Network Suit #2: ....My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance?

Network Suit #3: ....The Swan?

Newtwork Suit #1: What are you, insane? I mean the ACTUALLY good show.

Network Suit #3: Uh...The Littelest Groom?

Network Suit #2: NO YOU MORON!!! Wonderfalls!

Network Suit #3: Ohhhhh, yeah!

Network Suit #2: Right, right. Forgot about that. How's it doing on the ratings?

Network Suit #1: Not so good, I'm afraid. We aren't really getting as much money as we'd like-

Network Suit #2: HOLD ON!! Not as much money as we'd like? What do you mean?

Network Suit #3: Yes, despite our insanely large amounts of money, we still need more and more and more and more and more and more and more and-

Network Suit #2: Dude, don't have a stroke. We get your point.

Network Suit #1: Well, it's not a smash hit, but it's only been 4 episodes and it is competing against both The Apprentice and Joan Of Arcadia, so-

Network Suit #3: SHUT UP, intern! You've said enough already. We need money, and becaues the virute of patience has disolved from western media's culture completely and totally, we just can't wait for the MASSIVE cash cow of a fanbase this will undoubtedly raise.

Network Suit #2: Indeed!

Network Suit #1: But, sirs, if you'd just be reasonable and show at least some signs of intellegent, non-greed driven thought-

Network Suit #2: Foolish child, we lost that a long time ago. Interferes with money makin'. Now, PULL THE PLUG!! Let's replace it with something far better! I'm thinking...."World's Most Outrageous Videos: Falling On Your Head Edition"!!!

Network Suit #3: BRILLIANT!!!

If you couldn't tell from my badly written little story, I'm SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWLLLYYY loosing my grip on reality, as well as my faith in humanity. First Angel, and now Wonderfalls...all for what? Money? MORE money? Pathetic....

We will follow you wherever you go, Tim. We cannot express our sorrow enough. If Wonderfalls travels to another network, even one we hate, we shall follow. If it reincarnates in the form of DVDs, we shall buy them all. If we must sign a trillion petitions to bring this show back to the airwaves, then we will sign until our wrists are broken.

We are truly sorry, to all the people who have done such a massively Wonderfall(pun SO intended) job on such a beautiful, timeless show such as this. We are your fans, and we will follow you all wherever you go.

I can't believe it , well ratings were bad , but tru calling ratings were bad too and they'll get a second season.

Unfair world :(
We love ya Tim , keep making your magic , we'll keep following you wherever you go , and Thanks again for all the hard work .

Damn, another fine show gone.

Release the DVD or let us download :)

I can't begin to express how much this news upsets me. Wonderfalls was such a breath of fresh air in the very stale world of network television. I have watched since the pilot and hoped that FOX would give it the chance it deserved to be seen by enough people over a period of time, in a decent time slot, but they disappointed yet again.

I don't know how much we the fans can do at this point, but I know I am going to fight the fight. I am livid about the state of network TV these days and Wonderfalls was just the show to give me back some hope. I want to see all thirteen episodes.

I know that there is a huge fan base that will not go away quietly. We thank you for putting all the hard work into such an innovative show. Thank you to the tremendous cast (Caroline Dhavernas, Katie Finneran, Tracie Thoms, William Sadler, Tyron Leitso, Lee Pace, Diana Scarwid - you all shined)- you brightened my week and I want to see more of you (Caroline Dhavernas, you are extraordinary as Jaye). To everyone behind this show, thank you. Like I said, we won't go away quietly. Like the wax lion, you'll hear our voices and we'll roar if we have to.

What a way to wake up on Palm Sunday! To find out that my favorite show in the whole wide world got axed without given time to breathe! It was supposed to be a great day and now... I don't know.

I really don't know what to say. I really believed this move was better but I guess not. We were all happy about the move and what happens? I was starting to turn people and make them change the channel. Hell that ridiculous Apprentice show that is some hit for all I know is ending in 2 weeks so the ratings would have skyrocketed then!

Damn FOX? Did you know you were sitting on a goldmine here? You gave time to shows that are not of the caliber or range of Wonderfalls (will not bash other FOX shows) but why not the 'Falls?

Hopefully Showtime, A&E or another channel (FX for that matter could air the rest of the season, FX was probably a better fit anyway) that is smart will pick up Wonderfalls and capitalize on the possibilities.

Thank you Caroline, Tim, Todd, Bryan and the rest of the cast and crew for such an extraordinary show. We all supported you but alas most of us are not Neilsen families. DAMN IT!

FOX... you got me angered.... annoyed.... enrageddd..... Ahhhhhhh!

I hope someone picks up the show at least long enough to show all 13. Maybe USA (They've done a great job on some recent series and seem to be willing to let them breathe).

Fox can go to hell. I am so sick of their crap. You Bastards!

How many DVDs need to be sold?
OK, I´ll buy them all. Just release it!

And... Although it may have been mentioned before...
FOX sucks!

It's truly sad that such a magnificent series is gone. I work in the business and I understand the networks' need for ratings, but such an extraordinary show as this would've eventually made money for the company.

Immensely succesful shows that got very rocky starts include "Cheers" and "Seinfeld." It's often stated that these shows wouldn't stand a chance today because of the fast trigger fingers the networks have.

Having worked on "Frasier" for the past ten seasons, I was sad to see it go for a lot of reasons. It was a smart, funny show. I loved watching it as well as working on it. "Wonderfalls" (which I had nothing to do with) was going to replace "Frasier" in my mind as the smart and funny show to keep me amused each week.

But I would not be surprised in the least if Wonderfalls won an Emmy or two after its cancellation. Small consolation.

But the magnificent cast will pop up on other projects, and the creators/showrunners will give us other delights in the future.

That's what I tell myself, anyway.

Wahhhhhh!
My husband and I so enjoyed Wonderfalls, its much better than Joan and we thought it would be our new replacement for Buffy. I guess we will have to file it next to "Maybe it's Me", and hope that it comes out on dvd. Where can I sign a petition?????????

This show was the first one in a long while that actually had me excited to see each new episode since everything was so sharp, from the production, the acting, the writing, right down to that brain virus theme song of yours.

Why does Fox even BOTHER to pick up quality TV shows such as this (or Firefly, or Family Guy, or Futurama, etc.) if they're just going to slash and burn their own schedule if it doesn't produce an instant Friends-level hit? Oh, because it'll be easier to just drop $100,000 producing ten episodes of some cheap pandering bullshit like "MY SHORT STUBBY MIDGET GIGOLO" or "SNOTTY RICH CHICKS VS. ATTACKING WILD ANIMALS" or some other shit reality show, all of which will just try to shine off of the successes of the original Real World seasons (which worked because the stars were likable, or off of Survivor, which works because it never forgets that it's a GAME SHOW). ASSHOLES.

At least Fox TV has it's highly reputable news division to stand behind. Oh, wait...

This totally sucks!

I'm sorry to hear it, Tim. I love Wonderfalls.

Four episodes, and that's enough for Fox to decide whether or not it's going to catch on? Don't they remember Northern Exposure? Or Seinfeld? If either of those had been judged based on the ratings of the first four episodes, we never would have seen any more episodes of either show.

Bloody short-attention span studio executives!

Utterly disappointing. Like everyone else posting, I do want to thank you and the cast and crew for creating a gem. I was visiting my family when "Wonderfalls" debuted and there we were ... my parents (65+ years old both), me and my sister (both past our mid-forties), and my brother in law (thirties) ... all cracking up, all enthralled.

All willing to tune into a network that we're pretty underwhelmed by most of the time.

If someone can get the powers-that-be to get their heads out of ... they might tell those idiots that shows like "Wonderfalls" will *improve* their bottom line. They just have to be patient.

Are there any Canadian stations you could sell it to? Cuz my husband (fifties, loved the show... can we say "diverse appeal"?????) and I keep thinking we're going to be moving to Canada if the US keeps devolving the way it has been.

To Tim:

Sorry to hear about the show. My suggestion is lobby CTV or Global in Canada to produce it the way they produced Due South after it was cancelled in the states. It lasted for several seasons and became a cult phenomenon. CTV is also producing the wonderfully quirky sitcom Corner Gas and I feel they would be receptive to Wonderfalls. Heck, the show is already filmed in Canada with many Canadians in the cast: it already qualifies as Canadian content. The worst that might happen is the show's setting might have to become Niagara Falls, Ont. Who cares?

Please put out the DVD. If Firefly - which never received as good a response as this show - rates a DVD, Wonderfalls does.

Cheers

Alex

Tim:

Didn't even know you had a Web site, and I hate this is how I have to find out.

First "Angel" (which I just discovered this year) and now "Wonderfalls."

Sigh!

Let me just add my voice (and that of my 75-year-old mother) to the chorus of those saying "We're so sorry."

I'll keep looking for your name (and all former Mutant Enemy folx) on future projects. (Althought it's got to be hard for you folx to keep working, when your brilliant shows aren't appreciated.)

Well, that's a shame. I hope you do find a venue that suits the show. Would Showtime be interested? Could run consecutively with DLM when it airs in July.

This is sad... What a fantastic show, what a miserable happenstance... Hang in there Tim, Todd and Bryan. We're still behind you!

Time to call up David Kemper and find out how he was able to bring back Farscape as a mini series. I'd like to think it was the fans, but I know the reality of the situation. That's only a small part of it.

Sorry about Wonderfalls, Tim. It was the only great new show this season. Hell, great show period. I'll give props to Angel, too. But that's it. Time to give up television, Timbo. Time to go get rich writing great movie scripts. I'm sure you'll get more appreciation there than you have with FOX and those jackholes.

Well, based on the four episodes we've seen, this was the best show on TV, even better than The Sopranos, Angel, and Arrested Development. In the (laugh out loud) * (choke you up) metric (where a show has to do both), it probably trails only the best of Buffy in recent TV history.

I'd not only buy the DVD set, I'd pay in advance. Where do we write to urge its release?

Also, I'm contributing to the program at this year's World Science Fiction Convention, and I will be more than delighted to propose a program item to talk about the show and give a boost to any needed grass-roots movement to this effect. (Or, alternately, I'll try to see to it that any panel discussing the stupidity of network execs relative to Firefly includes Wonderfalls as prominently as possible.)

It boggles my mind.....

My favorite new show of the season by far, and it's gone, just like that.

The execs at FOX and I must have been watching something entirely different.

I don't understand how they can't see what I'm seeing, that they can't see the refreshing wit and originality of this show. That they can't give it a decent time slot. Heck, that they can't give us all thirteen episodes that are already in the can, even.....

FOX, "Your a$$ is ringing". It's me calling to complain. I'll bet "it does that a lot lately".

FOX, I hope you won't be terribly offended if I hold a grudge against you and your network. :(

From an overseas fan. I'm 47, british, cynical .... and I love Wonderfalls. I can't believe the "Pink Flamingo" is the end. The show was intelligent, funny, adult, quirky .... and compulsive. It's so rare to get a show that doesn't talk down to its audience and, indeed, seems to expect its audience to be intelligent and quick-witted.

Well, all I can say is, thanks for believing in us and trying to give us something better than the usual diet of pap. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

Unbelievable! Maybe you can turn it into a reality series, "The Making of Wonderfalls".

Anyway, DVDs please. Also please get Space Channel (www.spacecast.com) to run the full series ASAP, like they did for Firefly last year.

Well, this tears it. A friend of mine is mad at me for getting him hooked on shows that almost immediately get cancelled. He'd just forgiven me for starting him on his Firefly addiction and now, this.

(I don't have the heart to tell him about Angel yet.)

Agree, great series-and just getting warmed up. Why don't we all just bombard FOX with our opinion of their idiotic ways.

What a great show! I can't believe Fox has cancelled it already.

I've already let them know my opinion at askfox@foxinc.com.

Maybe UPN or another network will pick-up the series. Tim what can the fans do to help the show stay on the air? I just checked the FOX website and WF is still on the schedule for the next two weeks?

I suppose if you tried to make it more like a reality show, it would have made it. Because what we need right now is more reality shows! Bleh.

I started a discussion thread on FOX's website if anyone wants to post their displeasure.

http://forums.prospero.com/foxshows/messages

IS there no way we can get it back on air? it only just begun, and i can't stand the fact that the remaining episodes will be sitting in a warehouse gathering dust. You make these wonderfull episodes to show to the world. Stupid, Fox I don't think I'll ever forgive them...

R.I.P.-TV

Tim Minear

Joss Whedon

They saved TV, alot...

I was searching and searching for the show but could not find it, after I told everyone at work to watch. Bummer!!! I was happy it was Friday nights, too. It was such a unique show. Loved it. So they put on some stupid "pleasure island" show instead? (Instant channel change!) ARGH!!! Sad-sad day for television!!!

I guess this is what I get for falling in love with a show the very first episode. I wasn't impressed by the promotional trailers, but my husband was so we watched. I fell in love with Jaye within minutes. Not since the first episode of Angel have I become emotionally involved with a show so quickly. I've been telling everyone I know about this show, and most of them have watched and are now dedicated viewers as well. It seems that the networks are pandering to the lowest common denominator. They won't give a well written show a chance because it just might make the viewers think a little bit, and no-one wants that. As someone else said, is it ok to cry?

It's times like these I wonder if me getting into this business is such a great idea...

Tim, I'm terribly sorry. You had an amazing show going there it's a shame. Wonderfalls was quickly becoming my favorite show and I looked forward to it every week and now...ugh.
I hate Fox.

On it's first Thursday night run, with no promotion telling us that it had moved, 3 million of us watched your little show. Think how many might have watched if they had told us it was moving? If they had given it a shake and started it there? It's easy to simply blame Fox, but they are the ones who have ponied up the cash for a lot of great entertainment (so sad that they also make so much cash off of trash). It would be nice if they watched it, too, but they were probably busy watching The Apprentice and taking notes. Well, 3 million of us will buy a DVD set, or tune to another channel. Best of luck, and thanks for the great stories.

I had pretty much given up on network television before Wonderfalls. I've given up on it again.

I will happily buy the DVD set if it's released, though.

It is already missed.

No way. I am so upset that Fox didn't even give this show a chance to gain an audience, I will write to them. How is a show supposed to gain a loyal fan base without a decent night, without a significant amount of publicity to promote a new show, and by showing only four episodes? I dragged my husband from his xbox to watch the first episode, and he's been hooked along with me ever since. I'm sorry I'm not a part of the stupid Neilson rating-game-farce thing. With Angel having been canceled (heart-wrenching-cringe following this thought) I needed a new good show to fulfill my television woes. I had found it in Wonderfalls, and now, with the cancellation, I truly feel like taking a bat to the television set (I know that serves no purpose, and will accomplish nothing...well maybe I'd feel a little better). Oh why do those stupid people that have the Neilson hook-up thing in their house have to be so awe-struck with reality crap? I am so so sorry Wonderfalls is cancelled, I laughed and cried during the last episode (along with my husband), and the only other shows that make me do that are Buffy and Angel. Maybe the only solace you can take is knowing that you put out a show that was so original, unique, intelligent, and great it was to good for crappy television. It better make it to DVD, or else I'll have to take my base ball bat to something else.

Tim, (if you're out there)

Never posted before, but brainwaves happen when they happen, had to get this one out there before my brain exploded. Reading another post on here got me thinking...

Have you thought about the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)? It's a longshot (very, I know), but as only a recent comer to this area (St. Catharines, Ontario, 15 minutes from the Falls — I go to/work at Brock University), even I can appreciate what this wonderful show does with our lovely little peninsula (you're not fooling anyone calling it upstate New York, but I assume you knew that), and the CBC is ALWAYS looking for shows with a unique Canadian perspective.

I realize one or two things would have to be tweaked (but I personally think that the Republican leanings of Darrin and Sharon would be even funnier as self-hating Canadians), but I think with the right urging, this gem could find a home produced north of the border. There is such a bubbling industry up here (I've just had a script I'd written turned into a feature by friends independently getting shopped around, gaining connections, and what I'm learning about the business is astounding, it almost seems limitless, and another friend works at The Lab, where Wonderfalls itself had its dailies developed), I hope there is something to be done.

But if nothing can be done, kudos on having a hand in some of the finest television produced (if not just recently, possibly ever) in Angel, Firefly, and now Wonderfalls, and I will be there next time your name shows up on my small screen.

What the Hell? This was the only show I even watched on Fox. I say somebody with some brains should buy Fox and turn it around. I'd do it myself, but I don't have that kind dough. If any network out there has any kind of intellect, they would pick up Wonderfalls and show Fox how simple they really are. This is one of the most brilliant shows ever.

Wonderfalls was one of only two shows I watch on TV. I found it while channel surfing. It was the only show I watched on FOX. I loved it the first time I watched it.

Quite sad as well that Wonderfalls is no more. And just after I reset my VCR no less.

The problem, I think, is that Fox is so good at pandering to the masses with unreality programming that they have to preempt or move around all of their shows to make room for more unreality.

The real lesson here, I fear, is that if you have a show you think is good, don't go to Fox. Go to CBS. They'll give almost anything a full season. Last year, Hack was a very weak show in many places, but this year it rocks. If David Koepp had taken Hack to Fox, it wouldn't have survived.

Only on CBS does Appointment Programming still REALLY exist.

I am not a CBS hack, just a guy who keeps track of this sort of thing and watches a lot of TV.

I bought Firefly on DVD (and watched it every week when it was on), and I'll buy Wonderfalls when it comes out on DVD as well.

Good luck with your next venture.

Tim,

loved Wonderfalls, all four episodes. Pink Flamingos was pure genius, and in the end I had to resist the urge to get on my knees.

Someone should fire those suits at FOX. In fact, someone should fire all suits working at TV today. They have no idea about what 'quality entertainment' means.

The Nielsen model is dead. We need to change the way TV audiences and publicity work. Pay per show?. Who knows...

I hope you can get the DVDs out, or perhaps you can get the series in another, decent, channel. Assuming that exists. HBO is all that comes to mind right now, although living in Spain I don't exactly know other options there.

In any case, thanks for all you gave us. If we don't get anything more, I will remember those 4 episodes as some of the best TV I have ever seen, and IMHO that's saying a lot after Buffy, Angel, Firefly or Farscape.

Keep on going, we'll support anything you do!.

Everything I want to say has already been said multiple times but I just had to add my voice to the chorus.

I never used to watch TV, until Buffy came along. Then Angel, and I've followed you all to your new projects. Everything about these shows has been so obviously superior to the rest; FOX gave X-Files a chance. That was the last time, it seems to me, that a quirky show was (Eventually) supported by its network. What changed?

I'd like to know if there is something concrete we can do to help get the DVD out.

Thanks to all involved with the show.

I can't believe how haphazardly the execs at FOX run their network. What is the point of developing intelligent, quirky, word-of-mouth shows, when they pull the plug before giving those shows a chance to build that word of mouth? If all networks ran their business this way, such initial bombs as SEINFELD would have been dead before their first season was over. I know there are large amounts of money at stake, but if you continually cut your losses, all they will ever end up being are losses. WONDERFALLS deserved better.

I sent an email to FOX expressing my disappointment and bafflement at their business practices. I'd recommend that others do the same. Even if it does no good for the show, it feels good to vent.

FOX, I DESTROY YOU.

I've said it before, and i'll say it again. FOX execs need to be lined up and smacked about with spoons. Big spoons. I was really enjoying Wonderfalls, episode 3 made me laugh more than anything else that week (short of laughing AT Real Life Gardeners and their Pets XII) and I genuinely looked forward to seeing a whole series of well written, funny, slightly weird TV.

FireFly, Angel, Wonderfalls - what's next, advert breaks every 3 minutes because "people like to make coffee". IDIOTS.

I'd suggest no-one every makes anything for FOX ever again, unless you're a machocist.

Thank god, it's about time! I have been waiting anxiously for a timeslot to open up so Fox can bring us Gluttonbowl 2: Electric Barfaloo and America's Assiest Asses IV.

Sadly, I just made the comment yesterday to some friends that they had to check out the show, but that since it was on Fox there were probably only going to be 3 more episodes. Turns out I was overly optimistic.

I swear, the people running FOX must be 12 year olds with Attention Deficit Disorder. Time after time over the past six years or so, they've proven without a doubt that they do not know how to run a network with inventive, high-quality family programming.

Tim, I am truly very sorry to hear about the demise of WONDERFALLS. This show could easily have sustained a good five-year run on any network but FOX. Maybe you should consider relaunching all 13 eps. on a Canadian broadcaster. Just a suggestion. :-)

Tim,

I was never a big fan of Buffy (sorry...I was too wrapped up in Farscape at the time) and what eps of Firefly I've seen I've enjoyed (good thing it's on DVD now...I can finally watch all of it).

But I am a HUGE fan of Wonderfalls. I was skeptical at first...since it seems like lately any good QUALITY show doesn't get the chance...I didn't want to tune in to watch Wonderfalls, but a good friend of mine convinced me to watch. I was hooked from day one. I just found out from another board that yet another show I really love has met a bitter end all too soon.

Guess I'll go back to watching my Farscape and The Lost World DVD's cause there isn't a decent thing on TV anymore. I refuse to lower myself by watching the "reality" shows that are being forced down our throats.

Sad and pissed in Seattle,

Cyn

Mr. Minear -

Thank you for more quality television. Wonderfalls has been truly excellent so far. I fear that this cancellation is all my fault. I saw eps. 1, 2, and 4, but I missed ep. 3. I am that one viewer that broke the FOX's back. Sorry. Fox stands by NO show:

Greg The Bunny RIP
The Tick RIP
Andy Richter Controls the Universe RIP
Firefly RIP
Undeclared RIP
Wonderfalls RIP

I am not watching FOX anymore. No Simpsons. No 24. No That 70s Show. No FOX, no more.

They give me a fine show to love, such as WONDERFALLS, and then they take it away. Mmmm, more football and Paris Hilton. Fox even screws its sacred Sunday-night lineup over stinky old football. And Paris Hilton just makes America's pubes itch.

I hope that you and Misters Fuller and Holland get big chunks of the merchandising/video sales, because when you put the complete season of WONDERFALLS on DVD, it will sell like lottery tickets.

F uct
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Geraint Jr.

This is such a stupid decision by those knee jerkers at fox, what would have happened to shows like cheers, x-files, etc is the networks hadn't given them a chance?

Fox seems determined to become the destination of every moron with a tv who doesn't want to think or invest.

Wonderfalls is the best reviewed show of the season, easily, say that to yourself again, the best reviewed show of the season. If any new series deserves to be given a chance it's Wonderfalls, there's so much crap out there with no ratings that seems to be immortal. Why?!

I just hope someone gives the show a chance, it has every element of a great, long running series, fans and critics agree. But how is dumping it in the death slot of friday then putting it opposite CSI for one week giving the show ANY chance at all.

Fox is just the pits, if they hadn't lucked out with the simpsons they would be so much dust by now, there are obviously no executives there who give a damn about television.

"There is no such thing as a fall schedule from FOX any longer," the network's entertainment president, Gail Berman, said this week. "The new season will start in June. It will all be laid out in a plan for them at upfront [on May 20]."
The news was delivered during FOX's pre-upfront meeting with the advertising community on Wednesday in which Berman indicated that instead of a traditional September start, FOX will begin the 2004-05 season in June followed by a second wave of launches in November when its coverage of the World Series concludes. The moves are part of what FOX says is a transition to a year-round schedule.
The announcement comes as little surprise as FOX had been moving in said direction for the past seven months with such moves as launching scripted dramas like "The O.C." during the summer and ordering several pilots well in advance of the traditional spring development season.

Now if the network is going towards a year-round schedule, logic thinks that not ALL those shows will be hits. And due to the expense of starting a new show, you know they are going to have to stick to some the low rated shows. Wonderfalls joins a long list of dramas -whether they be fantasy, sci fi, cops or lawyers -that have gotten the boot because they don't fit into the mythical group of highly coveted viewer's -the teens -who in reality, don't give a crap that most show are on (teenagers are not appointment bound TV viewers, and that is a harsh fact). Wonderfalls -and satirical shows like Bernie Mac and Arrested Development really appeal to 28 and up and we buy a lot of crap. So to appeal to a group that is fickle as teens are, is just illogical. And we've let our love for dumb reality programming -which is the real threat to any scripted TV show -over come everything we hold dear. Bottom line may be important, but risk is a part of the game. The fate of any show is thought to be the viewer. I don't believe that. I think short sighted bean counters and publically traded companies who've become hostages to their investors are the real fault shows like this are cancelled. Fox -along with the WB's cancellation of Angel -just proves that cable channels like HBO and Showtime are were writers, and directors and actors should be heading. Network TV is becoming the haven for people with short attention spans. I'm astounded that the brains of people who watch such reality crap as American Idol, The Apprentience, Survivor and anything else can generate the electricity it needs to move their legs. RIP Wonderfalls, RIP Angel. Bring on a fourth season of Enterprise, though. There is no justice.

Crap....
No!
Now I'm stuck with that makeover show and stupid shows like Arrested Development....

Tru Calling, Your My Only Hope!
[Of Course I'd Love A Faith Spin-Off]
*{Puts On Star Wars Theme Song}*

Poor Tim... WB And Fox are not on my GOOD list..

Tis a shame. Good shows are rare, and what's rarer is good shows actually staying on the air.

If you're furious about the cancellation of Wonderfalls, and Angel, and Farscape, and a score of other shows that you *liked* that were cut before their time, you have only one real weapon against a network like Fox:

Not letter-writing, not petitions, not "Save Wonderfalls" websites, not attempts to reform the Nielsen ratings.

Money. Cancel your cable/satellite service. Completely. Period. Done.

Explain to your cable service why you're doing this, and let them know you are *not* switching to a competitive provider. This gets the cable/satellite company's attention, and if enough follow suit, it will eventually pass up the line to the network. As it stands networks like Fox are paid fees by cable/satellite companies to carry their networks, and if you continue to subscribe to cable/satellite service, you're essentially paying Fox regardless of whether you watch another show on their network ever again.

So. If you're serious about sending a message to Fox, bite the bullet. Call your cable/satellite provider Monday morning and *CANCEL*. Get as many people as you can to do the same, and make sure people tell the providers why.

Giving money to the networks that deprive you of something you love is simply stupid. Money is the only commodity they understand, so take it away from them. If enough join in, maybe we can change TV.

crap, what else will I have to see on teevee now? I only watched Tru Calling this week because it preceeded Wonderfalls (and TC was terrible and stupid).

Sigh, is there anyway you can make the rest of the 'sodes available via bittorrent? Not that I want to suggest that networks have dropped the ball, but that the underground might make them wake up. Oh, wait, they'll just act like it is a brown paper bag on fire on their porch.

After only an episode, wonderfalls became my favorite show, if it is going to be release on dvd, count on me to buy it. I'm not sure if this link has been given, but there is a petition going on at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls

well crap! all i can say is im so sorry to Tim all the cast and crew of Wonderfalls. This was the best new show of the season. my sister, who only watches thing that are animated even enjoyed it. It's official. im programing my tv to skip FOX. I am through with this network. first VR5 and Lone Gunmen, then Firefly (my very favorite show ever) and now Wonderfalls.

That sucks. I really liked that show... =(

I can't believe this! Such crap...Wonderfalls was one of the greatest shows to emerge on television in a very long time. If a DVD is released, I'll definitely buy it..especially if the rest of the season's episodes are thrown in!

I apologize for the mindless viewers out there who would rather watch such crap as American Idol, or One Tree Hill.

Disgusting.

Wow.. I was bumbling around the internet today and found a terrible rumor that WonderFalls was cancelled... What a cruel april fools joke, I thought to myself. And more digging around eventually brought me here, with the solid evidence that the show has, indeed, been cancelled.. Makes no sense that crap rules the tv these days and intelligent shows are woefully non-existant.
..
sigh..

I hope, against odds, that this show can someday see the light again. What a loss.

GD it! WTF is wrong with those MORONS at Fox??? Do they even have a CLUE as to what consists of GREAT TV these days? I think not! My husband and I are just sick and tired of getting involved in great new TV shows only to watch them get the axe in less than 6 or so episodes.

F*** it! It's time to turn the TV off!

So sorry for you and the wonderful cast & crew of Wonderfalls, Tim. Perhaps there is the possibility that you can take it to another network.... :(

I just give up

Tim,

If you're taking a head count of instant sales for a Wonderfalls DVD set, count me in, too. The day of release, I'll be there with check card in hand.

To all the cast and crew, thanks for a wonderful show. Hope you all find new work soon, and for those projects, break a leg.

With gratitude and sadness,

Jan

Like the other Karen above, I just started watching Angel in the fall, after discovering Buffy during season 7. I was just getting hooked on Wonderfalls -- and now I've lost them all. TV is becoming like movies, which must now hit it big their first weekend. Look quick or they're gone. And for those of us who populate the over-49 demographic that nobody cares about, who gravitate towards quality programs even if they are targeted toward younger audiences, there is virtually nothing left to watch. Thanks, TM, for giving us something different, something intelligent, something rolling-in-the-aisles funny, and something that deserved better treatment from FOX.

God, I'm pissed. I was in love with "Wonderfalls" the first time I saw it.

Is there any place for quirky, intelligent shows anymore? Yes -- on cable. The truth is that until 20 years ago, when television was still monopolized by three big networks, a show like "Wonderfalls" would never even have made it onto TV in the first place. At least we no longer live in a three-network world. The big networks (and Fox, which often beats ABC in the weekly ratings, counts as a big network these days) are not the place for unusual or offbeat shows, and they never were. Three or four million weekly viewers would be a hit on almost any cable network, and that's where people like Tim Minear and Joss Whedon should be looking to pitch their ideas, even if they'd have to deal with much smaller budgets. Due to smaller exposure, the shows probably wouldn't get even three or four million viewers, but it would be better than nothing.

Still... I'm so pissed, and sad.

I am so sorry to see Wonderfalls and all of it's wonderful cast and crew go. What a waste it seems that Fox will not even show the remaining episodes. I had become so quickly attached to this show that I happily faced denial about cancellation. I should have known that anything this good couldn't last. This last year has certainly turned me into a jaded television veiwer. Well, I will hold out hope for DVD's. *sigh*

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by this news. The people who work for fox are a bunch of dumbasses. This was one of the best shows to come out this year. They do leave some good shows on the air. I really like the oc but to cancel a show like this before it ever had a chance. Where would the world be if they had done that to Ally McBiel

Maid Of The Myst Statue "Go Kick Fox's ass."

Jaye "Why."

Maid Of The Myst Statue "Cause they are Nazi's."

Jaye "Good enough of a reason to me"

In an odd form of irony, my wife and I got an email informing us of the cancellation while we were in the middle of watching "Pink Flamingos" on the TiVo, just now.

This really doesn't make any sense. Were the ratings so low as to justify yanking it so quickly?

Tim,

I feel so sorry for you and the crew and for us fans. Wonderfalls was simply the best show I've ever seen. thanks for showing that TV could have been good... I mean this was hilarious!

tell us what we can do to help. and is we have a chance to make fox changing their stupid decision.

I hope you'll get a chance to release a DVD. I'll definitely buy it!

I wish the best for you.

I'm sorry to hear this news. I loved the show, and it was one of the bright spots on TV.

I hope another network picks it up. If a DVD is released, I'm picking it up right away.

Best wishes.

I need to stop falling in love with tv shows. I keep getting my heart broken in to little bitty pieces and the network execs just jump on them and laugh their asses off. I can't imagine how the people who work on these amazing shows feel. Thanks for the small look we got into the world of Wonderfalls...I would've enjoyed living there for an hour a week...even if it was on Friday night. I'm hoping for the DVD's but I'm not holding my breath. **sigh**

You know,Tim, it doesn't cost a fortune to self produce a DVD nowadays. You really don't have to wait for Fox to do it for you.

Sorry that it's gone but not surprised.
I loved its warpness! Twisted is good.

Crap. I can just see me cancelling cable once Angel ends. I guess that means more money for buying DVDs, like the Wonderfalls one. Please release this on DVD! Perhaps Wonderfalls will grow success on DVD like Firefly did.

Don't give up, Tim! You are a brilliant writer. Please continue to share your gift with us all somehow. Consider new modalities. Perhaps straight to DVD would work? If you make it, the true fans will come. I know I would be in line at the store.

Any chance of you joining the Serenity movie now?

NOT happy.
Well, I'll buy that DVD if you can find a way to put it out. Wonderfalls is my favorite show I've seen in a long time.

Well, It's too be expected. The show didn't appeal to the teeming masses.
It's the first fairly good show Tim has done after the excreable Firefly.

I still have to restrain my barfing reflex esophogial action when I think of that horror on tape.
But Wonderfalls had a lot of potential.

Tim, next time you'll have to put in a lot of punky liberal do-nothings, people who sit around saying stuff like "we need to share the wealth" and "the rich don't pay their fair share" and stuff like that and some black faces; make them the bosses and they boss around the white folks; black folk love that! Add a few androgenous indians, a couple of uptight wasp parents who carry bibles and are stupid and each episode have someone go over the falls and survive, wearing 4000pound wieght tested bungee cords, a heated wetsuit and call it
"In The Hood, Wonderfalls Suvivors Fear Death".

What can a person say? I hate Fox and all TV Execs who pull shows too quickly. In the end, they are alienating us to the point that we have no reason to invest our time in new shows. Just curious, do any of you have a Nilsen box? There has to be a better way to find out what shows are being watched.

I don't quite understand how TV Networks make their decisions on what programs to cancel and what to continue, but I have seen quite a few "intelligent" programs being cancelled while there are still too much crap on every channel. Very disappointed at FOX. Hope to see those unaired episodes on DVDs.

It's my fault. Blame me. I actually taped a few episodes and was just about to sit down and watch them. Everything I watch gets cancelled, and I do mean everything. Grumble, grumble.

I haven't even watched the show yet and I am ready to buy the DVDs just to prove a point. I hate those stupid, stupid teevee people who don't give a rat's patootie about good teevee. I swear, most of the people with Nielsen (sp?) boxes watch crap. Often.

Sorry Tim! I hope you can find a new place for WF to call home. I'm gonna go sit down and watch what I have now. Then I will abandon FOX completely. And then I'll enjoy the end of Angel. Good luck Tim!

I really liked Wonderfalls, and it makes me sad to think about what it could've been had Fox given it any kind of real chance. I find it amazing that they have the gall to cancel such a brilliant show given the sad state their network is in. I guess it's just as well though, because Fox has never been synonymous with quality television, and now it never will be.

I can see why they cancelled Wonderfalls. I think they tried to come up with a new quirky idea for a show, a new twist, but for me it just didnt work.
Angel on the otherhand was a really good show. A few eps that were a little lame but overall a great show. I still think there was something behind the scene that noone knows what REALLY happened.

I am a lot like the main star,a 24-year-sarcastic-bitter-gen-y-loser-chik. This was the only show that I learned how to work my VCR for. I fished out the VCR found the wires even tested it. I didn't have the right wire so I ran outside in my pajamas to find the right cord. Dusted off an old tape of the movie GREASE and taped over it. If you check on torrents.com you will see it is the 2nd most DLed show next to Sopranos. I hope it comes out on DVD so I can worship further. My condolences Mr. Minear. Grr...

I just got off the phone with my local Global TV affiliate here in Canada (they showed Wonderfalls). While the network is tied to the Fox broadcast of Wonderfalls -- which means they won't be able to continue running the show now that Fox has cancelled it, the programming person tells me that Global execs are possibly considering buying the series, at the very least to complete its run.

Apparently, while the show tanked in the US (ratings-wise), it was considered a break out hit here in Canada.

If you are in Canada, and you're a Wonderfalls fan, I urge you to call your local Global affiliate ASAP and express your support of the show. It won't do our American friends much good, sadly, but at least it might impact whether we're able to see the rest of the series up here. There is also always a remote chance that production could continue in Canada, a la Due South, though I couldn't get the Global person to say whether that's on the table or not (she probably wouldn't know anyway).

The best show on (or off) television. I'll watch it on DVD. I'll watch it on HBO. I'll watch it on any network. I'll watch repeats on my VCR. I'll even start watching FOX again if they bring it back...

theWB should pick up the series. It seems they appreciate shows like Wonderfalls more than FOX.

I would buy the DVD. I have already created an archive of the first 4 eps.

Tim, this is the best show since "Push, Nevada". Keep up the good work. Sorry for your lose.

Gee, why watch a great show like this when Fox is sure to air something mindless like American Idol or Celebrity Boxing. I'm so tired of Fox cancelling the best shows on TV! Please try to put this series out on DVD. I can put it on the shelf with my other favorite Fox cast off, Firefly.

To say that I was disappointed this morning to hear about the cancellation of Wonderfalls would be an understatement. I am actually feeling sick about it.

This show was the most intelligent, witty, brilliant program that the Fox television network had to offer this year. It is rare for me to watch television programs on Fridays, but I made a point to either watch Wonderfalls or to set my VCR so I could watch it later. This show had charm, it had originality, it was fun, and it was the kind of show that I would talk to my friends about.

I’d like to put forward a possible explanation for low viewership. Fans of this type of program are wary about watching a new show, knowing that Fox’s track record has been to cancel shows without airing all of the season’s episodes. This early cancellation brings back memories of Harsh Realm, Strange Luck, Millennium, Firefly, and John Doe. All of these shows ended without resolution of their story lines. I don’t believe you are going to build a fan base for any show without being loyal to those fans and to these shows. I for one will think twice about watching any new show on the Fox network again. I might as well just avoid disappointment and wait for the inevitable DVD release.

So there you have it. FOX can count me as a viewer lost and ask their ratings and numbers experts how many thousands or millions of viewers I represent. Then go tell all of the advertisers who buy time on the FOX network what a mistake they've made.

My demographic:
Single Male
34 years of age
with an income of over $50,000
Orange County, California

This is truly disappointing and, as you said, not at all surprising. The DVDs will sell like crazy and Fox will once again ("Family Guy") realize what a short-sighted mistake they've made. Do they really need more timeslots open for sludge like "The Swan"? Apparently, they do.

I checked this show out in the first place because Hercules wouldn't stop shouting about it on Ain't It Cool, and I'm very glad I did. I went to Niagara U. for three years and lived mere blocks from the falls for that whole time, and anybody that can make that town seem magical has got a gift. I guess it's not even really a shock any more that good shows get cancelled (hell, you could populate a new channel with just the good stuff Fox has snuffed), but it still sucks. Add my vote to the long list of folks who will gladly pony up for the DVD. Everyone involved with this show ought to feel proud of what they've done...

Hi Tim,

Absolutely devastated and sad for everyone on the show and for myself and my husband as we were so happy to have found your show. Cheers to Caroline for such a great performance. You guys all sparked together and I was finally feeling like tv might get good again. I can't believe this. This is so wrong!

I guess you have to be on HBO to get a chance for success. FOX just stinks for this, I will never forgive them, first Firefly and now this. It is beyond unfair.

Sorry to all of you and your staff, we know you made a quality show -- even if Fox doesn't.

Annie E.

i don't know what fox is thinking... i stayed home and watched the first episode and thoroughly enjoyed it... thought it was cleverly done and very refreshing. hopefully another network will pick it up and make the fox execs kick themselves in their butts, where obviously their heads are located at as well.

I don't believe it! How COULD they cancel Wonderfalls? This is easily the best new series to be on our screens in a long time and this just seriously sucks.

It's quirky, humourous, clever... I need my fix of talking animals and cheesy theme music!

Please find another network or put the episodes out on DVD or the net. It is a wonderful show!

Let's see, what quality shows has the FOX network cancelled?

Wonderfalls
Futurama
Family Guy
Firefly
Any Richter Controls the Universe
John Doe
Space Above and Beyond

Those last two had cliffhanger endings. The network obviously doesn't feel its viewers are intelligent enough to deserve proper endings to those shows.

Feel free to add on to the list.

Too bad it ended this way, just like Firefly.

Here in the Netherlands the are finally showing Firefly on Saterday night on Yorin television, hopefully all 15 episodes.
So why not promote 'Wonderfalls' in Europe??
Why hoping for another Network in the US to air the series?? Europe big enough to make it a succes here.

Amazing. I guess there's just not enough room between dwarf reality shows to air a decent new program.

FOX needs a wake up call. Wonderfalls would have been a key player in their lineup.

My great sympathy goes out to you and the cast and crew. You all did such a wonderful job.

What's it take to start a new network? Maybe on cable? Call it the "reality free TV network" and it can run all the really great shows that everyone else cancels.

What a line up we could make.

Farscape, Firefly, Wonderfalls, Futurama, Angel and John Doe, among others. But no reality crap.

And of course, with amazing talent like Tim and Joss, we could have more original series.

We may not get the ratings the other networks get, but what we'll do is make our advertising more expensive because our viewers are smarter! We'll deliver better viewers. Maybe it'll be a pay cable network...

Tim, you deserve better.

Tom

I am so Sorry...

Unbelieviable. Just as I think there's finally something to watch on Fox, the show is cancelled.
Anyone have a number for Fox Television?

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I'm a busy girl, I recently got married and at the end of the day my favorite thing is to sit down and watch something good on TV with my husband. Something that gives you real emotion, love, sadness, happiness, feeling and care for the characters you watch. Everything decent goes off of the air. This is ridiculous! Ever since Buffy ended (Been watching that for 7 years,Ugh), I've been struggling for a show to watch. Charmed, Angel (Ending in May.), and Tru Calling really didn't do anything for me, its basically like the same episode repeating over and over again, but then I stumbled upon Wonderfalls. I've watched every episode so far and I loved the concept, it was witty, funny original, and cute, and just as the storyline starts to unravel, it gets cancelled? Whats up with that? I agree with everyone else, everything that was decent on TV has been replaced with a new Reality TV Series, crap like this makes me homicidal.

Well, FWIW, I found the number of my local Fox station (actually Fox-owned, not just an affiliate) and called in a polite protest.

(212) 452-5555

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Well, that seals it. Since FOX can't seem to support good shows anymore, I can't support FOX. Sadly, I'll be missing out on the Simpsons, 24, American Idol and Tru Calling (yes, I actually watch that one every week.) - But, I am done watching FOX or anything on it. I'll just wait for episodes of 24 to hit the internet or dvd.

Thank you for making such an amazing show - I hope some day I'll be able to see the whole story unfold.

-Marc

Save this show! No, I don't mean petition FOX and all that jazz. But I've seen three of the four episodes aired and I think this show is awesome! It's one of my favorite shows and it seemed FOX was actually getting their act together by moving it to the same night as Tru Calling so they'd have a watchable block of TV to offer people once Friends' vapidness is off the air and The Apprentice (which I actually kind of like, but it's not THAT great) wraps up. But, thanks to--estimate-for-the-masses-based-on-the-tastes-of-the-few--Nielsen ratings (which, I'm sorry DO NOT WORK!) we, the viewing public are deprived of another quality show.

Do whatever you have to do to get this on a different, deserving network (preferably a broadcast network, I don't have cable). Not just so the involved viewers can find out what happens in the remaining episodes, but push for more to be ordered and produced. It's a show with an original plot, an EXTREME rarity these days, and deserves better than FOX's pussy-footing around.

Note though that Disney...oops, I mean...ABC does the same thing (Sports Night, Once and Again, a list to infinty and beyond), UPN is the Utterly Pointless Network (their best rated show is Enterprise, which is a crappy show, and I speak as a Star Trek fan), and then there's the (cancel-Birds-of-Prey-cause-it-seemed-silly-but-keep-Smallville) WB, pass!

That leaves NBC and CBS. NBC would be a good place, they have several shows exiting this year and next and may like grabbing a show with what should be an obvious built in fanbase. And CBS could just work! And if none of this works, you must at least release a DVD set and make FOX pay for it as penance for their stupidity.

Meanwhile, what is FOX's problem? Dark Angel, Harsh Realm, Futurama, I never saw Firefly (or maybe I missed it's FOX Saturday at 3:15 AM timeslot) but I heard it was good, Wonderfalls, and the list goes on. They get these shows that could potentially drive them to the #1 network spot, and they kill them. Yet they give full-runs to stupid reality mini-series, My Forever Big Fat Obnoxious Gay Dwarf Fiancee Simple Life Makeover. And, sorry, while I'm enjoying this year's American Idol slightly better than the other seasons, after this year it needs to go.

They simply cannot base all of their TV programming decisions on the ratings. And they especially can't do it when they pit a show against The Apprentice and then sit back going, "Hmm, I wonder why we did so bad on Thursday at 9 PM". By their own methods they KNEW it was going to do poorly! That doesn't make it any less good of a show and EARTH TO FOX, The Apprentice will be over in 2 more weeks anyway, DUH! They could've pumped up advertsing Wonderfalls AND Tru Calling to secure Thursday nights to persuade NBC not to air Apprentice 2 on Thursdays, but no!

Bottom-line, FOX sucks and Wonderfalls is one of the best new shows this year no matter WHAT network it's on!!! And I really, really, really don't want see this end up alongside the other axed-before-given-a-chance shows. It'd be too sad. My stapler's talking to me.

Call a press conference to say that it was cancelled because of pressure by the Bush administration. That will cause ten million Americans to decide that it must be good. And network executives will fall over themselves trying to sign you up.

Wow! What a shame, I watch so few shows and this was one of the best in a long time, I don't get it? This deserves to be seen somewhere and Fox made a big mistake. I have let them know that I for one think they should reconsider. Thanks for this great albeit short lived show. I for one will miss it. :(

I'm feeling sick. How can they cancel this? It's
such a great show with just the few episodes that
have aired. Don't take it personal Tim. Let's hope
that one day they'll understand the grave error
they've made and either continue the show or at
least give us the rest of the episodes.

I feel lost!

I would also like to lend my support to you and tell you that I simply loved the show.

I'm outside of the usual demographic, I guess, I'm a woman in my 50s and I thought the show really was one of the best most innovative in years.

I'll write to Fox and give them my 2 cents.

Keep up the good work!
Sue

Quite honestly, I think Fox just sucks. This is the second of two shows that my husband and I have really enjoyed on Fox (the other being "John Doe") that they did not give a chance to, but that had lots of fans. I cannot believe that crap that they have on instead....and how many American Idols must one endure?
Tim, I hope that you are able to find a place for Wonderfalls.
Kindest Regards,
Carolyn

I just want to say that I love the show and that was the last show that I'm gonna from fox because they always cancel show without given a chance to people to know about the show and start to listen it. I hope that you gonna be able to put it on DVD.

Good luck!

Wonderfalls is/was a truly entertaining series and easily my favorite show on television. In fact, it was the only one that I made a mental note of not missing. I am disappointed with FOX's decision to cancel the series, especially since they have been the home to so many of my favorite shows in the past. Here's hoping that they will reconsider their decision and/or, at the very least, release the entire series (including unaired episodes) as a boxed set. I will follow this show to any other network that picks it up and will watch it over any FOX show in a similar time slot. This is just sad news and proof, once again, that network television is a barren wasteland of mediocrity.

With the demise of Wonderfalls my Television viewing is at an end. Thanks Tim! You gave us all a wonderful ride. Sad it was cut so short.

Fox network sucks so much bum. Stupid network TV. Good luck with finding a place for Wonderfalls either on DVD or another network.

What a shame... I, personally, am new to Tim's stuff and I loved Wonderfalls. It was the one show that I would look forward to watching. I'm also not familiar with FOX's cancelling history but from what I have heard this isn't too uncommon from them. I really, really hope this series can be picked up elsewhere because it was both refreshing and down right fun to watch. Gonna miss the show... :( Thanks for the four episodes I was able to see though, I enjoyed them a lot.

Haven't you people figured out how network TV works by now? Money and ratings. There are 300 million people in America. Of course there will be thousands who like this show. The fact remains that there are many more who tune out. Like Simon from everyone's favorite reality show says, "Sorry!" There are only so many freaks and geeks who can stand Firefly and Wonderfalls. You either use your talents to make a show a lot of people would want to watch or you become irrelevant in this tough business.

Well, talk about daily dose of depression! I'm only 12, but Wonderfalls was by-far my favorite TV show! When my dad told me the news, I sulked in my room. Like the others said, try getting it on another channel. Personally, I say stick with cable. Though not the most trustworthy, you will definatly attract more "non-dish/digital" customers. Truly, I'm sorry.

Plus, if its not animated, doesn't star a hollywood star, or isn't a reality show, then don't go for Fox. Forever Eden, Bernie Mac, Simpsons, Malcom in the Middle, Arrested Development, even Oliver Beane...all "Fox-ish" shows. Poop on them I say!

I read the news this morning and upped my Netflix subscription in response. "Wonderfalls" was an oasis in the otherwise dismal landscape of television. It actually had me laughing out loud at least once an episode--not just a giggle, either, but a guffaw. I do think the show could have built an audience if it had been given half a chance. And the networks wonder why the coveted 18-34-year old network is abandoning them.

In respose to "Bob's" remarks a few posts back:

A show's ratings are not based on how many people ACTUALLY watch a show. They're based on how many NIELSEN HOUSEHOLDs watch a show of which there are approx. 1 million in the USA.

That's 1 million people deciding what the other 299 million get to watch!

When you hear "29 million people watched this show" that's any estimate based on the demographics in a Nielsen Household's community, in reality it could be 2 million. Whereas, they say "only 100 thousand people watched this show", it could really be 30 million people with bunny ears on their TV. Not to mention people who work during primetime and have to tape or Tivo their shows.

Network moguls claim that the Nielsen system works. That's just business speak for, "We're too lazy to figure out another way."

In the case of Wonderfalls, they could have played the ratings game in their favor. Instead, if you look at their moves: from postponing the show's release in the first place, to putting it on Friday, then squeaking out an announcement about switching it to Thursday vs. CSI & Apprentice, they deliberately killed the show. Plain and simple.

CALL NOW!
1-888-223-2FOX
This is Fox Studio, not the network; they're accepting requests for the 13 episodes to be released on DVD. The woman I spoke with said they'd received a lot of requests for a DVD release.

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I guess I'm just joining the chorus of people who are very disappointed with this decision. I kept urging all of my friends/relatives/coworkers to watch Wonderfalls - "This great new show on Fox that's funny and smart and therefore not going to be around for long." Still, I can't believe that the network was this quick to cancel a series when (AFAIK) all of the episodes have already been filmed.

I know that the TRIO network was showing episodes of great shows that were cancelled too soon. I think the overarching title is "Brilliant but Cancelled". Wonderfalls definitely fits that bill.

Also, I SO want that DVD. After I watched Pink Flamingos on my TiVo, I automatically deleted it and then regretted it severely. I had a *feeling* that TiVo'd episode might be the only way to introduce my friends to the show - and I'm sorry to say my intuition was right.

To all the cast and crew: I'm so sorry. You did everything right. We all loved the show. Keep trying on a better network, and keep making intelligent TV. We really DO want it. It's just that the execs keep underestimating us.

Damn it! I just read a glowing review of your show in The New York Times, was looking forward to seeing it, and now I'm robbed of the chance. Sorry, man. Hope you can find it another home on cable.

Tim,

Adding my 2 cents worth. For the love of God, never go with Fox again! I thought Wonderfalls was the best show on TV and one of the best comedies ever. Please see what you can do to get it out on DVD. I bought Firefly the day it came out and will do the same for WF. Sorry the Fox network let you (and all of us) down. I don't suppose USA or SCI-FI would consider picking it up?

The series didn't "fail", FOX did. This makes me sick to my stomach and I would puke on FOX's shoes if I could.

Will Bravo air the episodes. They took on Keen Eddie.

Apart from the Tacky Family Moment that ended each ep (hey, TFM - just like Tim's initials!) and a theme song that made the Enterprise song sound good and listenable, Wonderfalls was pretty good.

If I thought Fox execs had balls I'd suggest hanging them by those appendages, but the mere fact that they cancelled the show proves they don't. That goes for UPN also, having axed Jake 2.0 - which if they'd left it alone, would have become the new Buffy. May their souls drown eternally in the Lake of Lukewarm Piss.

FOX sucks. Now I'm going to have a 'sode.

(but I'll buy the series on DVD)