I did not know Dollhouse was on Friday at 9. I would have watched it or DVRed it. Fox might want to try advertising it. "Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love." - Amma
--- On Sun, 2/15/09, TurquoiseB <[email protected]> wrote: From: TurquoiseB <[email protected]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Dollhouse Commercial that only Quentin Tarantino could love To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 7:04 AM Continuing the rap about the disappointing-to- many debut of "Dollhouse," here is a link to a trade article talking about how badly it did in the ratings. http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/02/dollhouse-terminator-premiere-ratings.html But, what is far more interesting on this page is the video clip that's there. It appears to be a *real* commercial from FOX for their two most interesting series -- Doll- house and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Watch it and see if you don't understand why they are both losing in the ratings game. It's not the series themselves; it's the marketing, stupid. These people at FOX have on their hands two television shows with a pretty interesting "intelligence quotient" to them, but which also contain "action" and "attractive women." So how do they choose to *market* these shows? By stressing the action and the attractive women, and aiming the ads at *non-intelligent* doofuses. THIS, in my opinion, is why FOX screws up so many potentially interesting TV series. The series themselves are often pretty good, and even intel- ligent. But the people trying to sell them to the public are anything BUT intelligent. This commercial is almost parody. I had to watch it twice to realize that it wasn't. Clearly, if this commercial was aimed at the perceived intel- ligence of his viewers, FOX thinks that the people who watch its entertainment shows are as mentally challenged as the ones who watch its News shows. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: [email protected] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
