Bring back the Old FX

[Uncle Peter]

Does anyone Remember the Shows FX Once Ran? "Breakfast Time", "Backchat", "The Pet Department", "FX The Collectibles Show" among others. They also ran re-plays of "The Greatest American hero", "The Fall Guy", "Eight Is Enough", "Family Affair" and more. Todays FX Stinks with Re-PLay after Re-Play of shows. All it is a vast wasteland of filler.

[dfergie]

Also the friday night toughman contests.

[paulh]

Yes, those were the good ole days on my 30-channel cable system. The morning shows that were ran out of that awesome central-park facing "apartment" were the best! I think they actually took the best advantage of their NYC presence of any national show, and probably would of skyrocked after 9/11.
Unfortunatley, they generated soo much buzz and great reviews in the industry, that Fox gave the morning show it's big "break", and started showing it on the local FOX affiliates instead of the little FX.
That "break" actually broke the show. The hosts that were comfortable in their roles on the FX version, were suddendly out of place, and the show lost its friendly flow with the pressure or changing of producers from FOX, and I think it closed the show down.
Every now and then, my wife and I see some of the old FX hosts on other shows like on HGTV, and are glad to see some of them are still making a living.

[MikeI]

Yes, those were the good ole days on my 30-channel cable system. The morning shows that were ran out of that awesome central-park facing "apartment" were the best! I think they actually took the best advantage of their NYC presence of any national show, and probably would of skyrocked after 9/11.
Unfortunatley, they generated soo much buzz and great reviews in the industry, that Fox gave the morning show it's big "break", and started showing it on the local FOX affiliates instead of the little FX.
That "break" actually broke the show. The hosts that were comfortable in their roles on the FX version, were suddendly out of place, and the show lost its friendly flow with the pressure or changing of producers from FOX, and I think it closed the show down.
Every now and then, my wife and I see some of the old FX hosts on other shows like on HGTV, and are glad to see some of them are still making a living.

Yeah, Suzanne hosts the looking for house show on HGTV. Tom is on Hollywood Squares, Jeff Probst is on Survivor, Laurie is married to Gelman and the collectible guy (John??) still hosts collectible/auction shows on a few satellite/cable channels like Bravo. I've even seen the regular appraisers on a few shows recently. Old FX was great.

[Brett]

Does anyone Remember the Shows FX Once Ran? "Breakfast Time", "Backchat", "The Pet Department", "FX The Collectibles Show" among others. They also ran re-plays of "The Greatest American hero", "The Fall Guy", "Eight Is Enough", "Family Affair" and more. Todays FX Stinks with Re-PLay after Re-Play of shows. All it is a vast wasteland of filler.

As for classic reruns, Fox let it slip with FX when they wanted to devote blocks of schedule to repurpose Fox network content onto FX. As the FOX network content was becoming more and more expensive, Fox needed a distribution to make it more profitable. Cross promotion and repurposing gives shows more exposure.

Hallmark, and TV Land have distinguished themselves for classic reruns now. MASH which was on FX for a long time, only until recently, may have been exception because Fox outright owned rights for the show. Hallmark is paying Fox, an enormous license fee for those reruns.

As for the talk type shows "Breakfast Time" etc., I guess Fox found they made little to no money with them.

Fox needed to entice cable and satellite providers to carry FX. Once it's actually available in millions of households and going nowhere as its tied to Fox, FOX RSN carriage, Fox can cut programming costs down for the channel. FX has original shows of course, but its mostly at night. I think Fox also wants to make FX a network for men or the young sportier demographic, who watches movies-- even willing to blow their money off even on flop movies (made by the same production companies Twentieth Century Fox) shown in theaters. TBS and TNN are similar in a way to FX, but TBS is Time Warner owned and TNN(now SpikeTV) is Viacom owned.

[bogi]

F/X still replays Married with Children. As long as they do that they are fine with me.