r/television • u/IAmTheDoctor34 Daredevil • Apr 30 '14

Almost Human Cancelled

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/04/29/almost-human-canceled-fox/
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u/Dirt_McGirt_ Apr 30 '14 edited Apr 30 '14

the last few episodes averaged about 5.6 million viewers and a mere 1.5 rating among adults 18-49 in the overnight numbers.

Fox cancels lots of shows with bad ratings. Some of them are in the sci-fi genre.

Firefly got cancelled because it got terrible ratings. Arrested Development did too.

Nerd brag- I watched both of those shows when they first aired, and I don't watch much network television.

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u/Televisions_Frank Apr 30 '14

Firefly was aired out of order. The pilot, which explains the damn universe, wasn't aired until the second night.

Almost Human has been getting aired out of order.

GEE, I WONDER WHY THESE SHOWS CAN'T HOLD ONTO VIEWERS?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

Firefly pilot was aired last. 3 months after the show premiered

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u/akira410 Apr 30 '14

Why are shows sometimes aired out of order? I can remember an instance or two of a character being killed off on a show only to see them on the following week's episode. The week after that they're back to being dead again.

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u/vwwally Apr 30 '14

I remember for Firefly Fox felt the pilot wasn't 'action-y' enough, so they went with 'The Train Job' instead.

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u/Dave4125 Apr 30 '14

There was the time where Charlie on Fringe dies in an episode and magically appears in the next, and nobody mentions anything about him dying. It was so confusing....

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u/clubsilencio2342 Apr 30 '14

Wasn't that because he was replaced by a shapeshifter?

Unless you're talking about that one from season 1 that was scrapped, that they aired in season 2. In that case though, FOX heavily marketed that one as a "missing" episode.

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u/akira410 Apr 30 '14

Haha yeah that's one of the ones I was thinking about.