It never fails . Now that Fringe has become the right television show in two cosmos , it ’s getting moved to the Friday - night time slot that claimed Firefly and Terminator . How can we save Fringe from Fox ’s Friday - night bane ? A few ideas below .
Fox execs say they do n’t desire to invalidate Fringe , and we believe them . It ’s plausibly reliable that the show only has to uphold the ratings point it ’s at now ( oscillate around 5 million ) to stay secure on Friday Nox . That ’s easy said than done , however — when Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles impress to Fridays , the show ’s rating see an automatic 30 per centum free fall .
It ’s not like there are enough thought - provoking , intense , brightly acted bear witness out there — in any genre — for us to sit by and wait for Fringe to become a “ bubble show ” before we mobilize . We ca n’t just be Observers — we have to act .
So here are some suggestions for strategies that might in reality make a dispute :
1) Take a hint from Chuck fans.
2) Evangelize over the holidays.
Many of us are about to spend a significant amount of time stick with our mob , with nothing to talk about . So why not talk about one of television ’s best class - orient shows , whose independent plot of land stem from a founding father ’s love for his boy ? Plus if you ’re looking for last - second gifts for the citizenry in your living , corner set of the show ’s second season go for just $ 23 on Amazon right now . Fill those endless hours of family time by showing your have it off one episodes like “ Peter ” and “ Jacksonville , ” and they ’ll shortly be hooked .
3) Organize a Fringe-watching night
at your local lachrymation gob , and make it high - profile . Television studio apartment cognise that they ’re not really able to track who ’s watching their show live with the incredibly fudgey Nielsen data , as I discovered when Idid an investigatory part on the Nielsen rating . Just late , Nielsen was vest in a undertaking that move over people pager - similar equipment that recorded random snippets of ambient sound recording and tried to figure out what television program was play from those audio bite . The melodic theme was that if someone was in a bar or public blank space where a goggle box on , Nielsen wanted to be able to record that . So yes , anecdotal grounds that a few dozen ( or more ) people are collect in a bar to watch Fringe — and baby-sit through the commercials — will take some weight , specially if it ’s countrywide . ( If anybody unionise this in San Francisco , I ’ll show up for sure . )
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4) Write/email your local newspaper.
Every exclusive day-to-day newsprint has a daily / weekly “ what ’s on tv set ” section . ( I often glance at these when I ’m doing io9 ’s weekly “ what to watch ” feature , and they seem to be unlike for every newspaper around the country . ) They always list highlights to check out for . Also , many newspaper still have a television receiver critic . Figure out who your local newspaper ’s editor in charge of telly coverage is , and compose to this individual . Be mellow and collegiate . get him / her know that “ J.J. Abrams ’ eldritch FBI show ” has grown into something really particular and groundbreaking , and if they have n’t checked it out lately , it ’s time to take another look . Now ’s a cracking fourth dimension to write ( politely ) and aid get Fringe back on these folks ’ radar , so when it returns in January , they ’ll think of making it a weekly pick , or giving it a writeup .
5) Reach out to other fandoms.
The Whedon fans were unforced to abide home for Dollhouse on Fridays ( some of them , anyway ) . The BSG fans made Friday nights an event . And so on . I have a flavour a lot of sports fan of these other universes and creators would be in earnest gazump on Fringe — staying home on Friday night - level hooked — if they go through some of the late episodes . ( differentiate your Star Trek - fan friends that this is a mirror universe portraying that makes “ Mirror Mirror ” look like a school play — then run away away while you still have all your limb . But also take exception them to see for themselves . )
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