Serenity

Well, I guess that this confirms it, as only a fansite can.

Woohoo!

"Joss Whedon has made a deal with Universal to produce "Serenity", a movie based on Firefly, the series Fox dropped after nine episodes due to "lackluster" ratings. DVD sales of the boxed set have proved that the popularity was greater than Fox had patience enough to realize."

(Speaking of which, Angel had its final episode tonight too. Sigh. So long Buffyverse...) ed.

I'd heard rumblings about a Firefly movie, but this is the first piece of relatively hard news that I've seen. Maybe the fact that shows like Angel & Firefly are getting such great buzz post-cancellation due to DVD sales, networks like Fox will actually have patience for these shows to find their audience before yanking them prematurely.

I've grumbled before, and I'll grumble again. Fox used to be willing to take a chance on sci-fi/fantasy shows. X-Files was in the tank, ratings-wise, for the first season. If it had been release now, it would have been yanked after 8 episodes. Instead, it was given a chance to find its feet and actually went on longer than it should! I mean, who really watched the last two seasons?

Ah, may as well bring the usual list of other shows that Fox prematurely cancelled... Suprisingly, all from Chris Carter, the X-Files guy.

Millennium (great first season, amazing finale to the second season, atrocious X-Files knock-off third season).

Harsh Realm (like Firefly, cancelled far too early. The universe they were creating was just starting to get interesting when they pulled the plug).

And The Lone Gunmen, which would have been a perfect replacement for the X-Files. It was funny, witty and smelled good too. It also injected a lot of needed inspiration to the X-Files universe. But of course, it got cancelled after a season (or was it only half a season?). Sigh.