Wired is publishing today an article giving five reasons why Flashforward TV Series should continue next season (check it).
If a series such as that one gets cancelled someone is making things very wrong. Few series got more hype than it this year. The different characters are well defined. Plot is interesting (though could be improved, it has a lot of potential). There are other series (I'm thinking about V particularly) that seem much more "artificial" to me.... you can "see" the chroma keying all around!!!
But independently of my taste for series, I'm thinking about the implications of the cancellation decision in the evolving TV market, where fragmentation of audiences is speeding up and new video formats (Internet in its different flavours) are taking a greater share every day.
What parameters should be considered when making these kind of decisions? Channel audience? International audience? Internet audience? Torrent & eDonkey audience?
How can we monetize Internet & "piracy" audiences? Is Hulu enough?
With more fragmentation every day... how many "sophisticated" TV series with high budget will survive? They all will die fast it seems. A pity.
We should start thinking about what the future model for TV and Movie distribution will be... asap.
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