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The End of The X-Files
fonixmunkee writes "CNN is running this story that says the cult TV classic, "The X-Files," shall be no longer after this season. I have been a huge fan of this show since it started in '93, so I'm quite saddened by it's projected departure." The story originally showed up in Daily Variety, saying that Chris Carter wants to move on to other projects.
I thought that show ended when they found Mulder's sister... the third time.
(Scully is hot!)
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered The X-Files community when recently IDC confirmed that The X-Files accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of ratings. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that The X-Files has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The X-Files is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict The X-Files's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The X-Files faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The X-Files because The X-Files is dying. Things are looking very bad for The X-Files. As many of us are already aware, The X-Files continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Scully is the most endangered character of them all, having lost 93% of its core writers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
The X-Files leader Chris states that there are 7000 viewers of The X-Files. How many viewers of The Simpsons are there? Let's see. The number of The X-Files versus The Simpsons posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 The Simpsons viewers. That 70's Show posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of The Simpsons posts. Therefore there are about 700 viewers of That 70's Show. A recent article put Mad TV at about 80 percent of the The X-Files market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Mad TV viewers. This is consistent with the number of Mad TV Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of MS-NBC, abysmal sales and so on, Mad TV went out of business and was taken over by Fox who sell another troubled OS. Now Fox is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The X-Files has steadily declined in market share. The X-Files is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The X-Files is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. The X-Files continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The X-Files is dead.
Fact: The X-Files is dead
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
NO MORE CRAPPY SHOW!!! YES!!!!!!!
Wait they'll just put some other crap on like "This 90's show"
Now I remember why I only watch sports.
I do feel bad for the show and Duchovney. He is a very likeable actor, however, he has been severely typecasted... I don't even know if Gillian Anderson can make the break, but she probably has a better chance.
Anderson could whistle dixie for all I care, so long as she does it nude.
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Mmmmmmm. Floor pie!