Remember this is the same network that canceled Firefly...
Yeah but they just won the ratings race for the entire year [over NBC, CBS, ABC, etc] because they had new episodes of Sarah Connor in the can while all the other networks were honoring the writers' strike.
Fox wins TV season crownTo diss the show which brought them the trophy would be insane.
http://www.variety.com/VR1117986172.html...Though Fox had its share of first-year bombs, it ended the season with the two top-rated new programs in lie-detector reality show "Moment of Truth" and sci-fi drama "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"...
PS: We also have to face the hard truth of the matter, which is that there just might not be all that large of an audience for Joss's style - he's targetting people who are way, way, way out at the far right end of the bell curve, and once you get too far away from the big hump in the middle of the bell curve, the absolute numbers fall off rather drastically:
Serenity (2005)Any "profit" which Serenity might be making is coming from DVD sales and HBO/Showtime reruns.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=serenity.htmProduction Budget: $39 million
TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic: $25,514,517 65.6%
+ Foreign: $13,354,947 34.4%
= Worldwide: $38,869,464
PPS: Actually, what I just said about Joss & the bell curve might be true for Sarah Connor as well - SCC had some of the best writing I've ever seen in SciFi, and it might be moving the demographics too far out to the right.