Re: FOX's "Terminator" preparing for season 2

shawn <nanoflower@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

> A Watcher <stocksami@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> It would be really stupid to cancel it with the movie coming out
>> next year. Fox has done lot's of stupid things before, though.
> 
> Not really, since most of these business units run as individual
> companies. So the movie might do great business for the movie
> side of the house but none of that revenue will show up in the
> television side of the company.

Especially in this case, as they would be from two completely
different companies. TSSC is aired by FOX, but is produced by
Warner Bros, as the movie will be. FOX has no stake at all in
the movie, other than that a successful movie may generate a
larger audience for the TV show.

The only effect the movie would have on their decision to renew
the series or not would be for the FOX execs to factor in
whether it would be worth carrying the show for another entire
year just for the possibility that the movie may generate a
larger audience for the show in a hypothetical third season.

-- jayembee