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Twin Peaks Saga
Would Twin Peaks have fared better on FOX?
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[QUOTE="Mr. Reindeer, post: 2878, member: 79"] I think the Gulf War thing has been largely debunked by original series viewers like Audrey Horne on the old dugpa boards (as well as my reading many threads on the VERY old Usenet group from that period). That is to say, news updates may have cut into the show in some markets/time zones during the three Desert Storm-era episodes that aired in February 1991 (in Audrey’s market, only the opening credits were cut into), which was undeniably a frustrating but semi-common occurrence in that era, but no episode was ever preempted on a national level due to news coverage. And in any event, by that point the ratings were already in the toilet, probably largely due to ABC moving the show to Saturdays but also a confluence of other factors (killer reveal, Lynch/Peaks fatigue/frustration/oversaturation which started to show in the fandom even in S1, etc.). TP could have potentially been an interesting fit on Fox in that era with their more risk-taking content. Keep in mind, Fox was still VERY small in 1990-1991. They still didn’t even have a presence in many major markets in the USA, and I think they were only programming four days a week at that point. Playing the hypothetical further backward in time, when TP was first sold as a pilot in 1988, Fox was way smaller still, and I doubt it ever would have been seriously considered by a filmmaker of Lynch’s statute as a venue. It had been around for a year, and no one even knew if it would last (attempts to create a fourth major network had bombed in decades prior), and I think they only had two days a week of programming at that point. That smallness of Fox could have played to Peaks’s advantage if it had ended up there: the expectation for ratings numbers would have been much lower and maybe it theoretically could have coasted by for years. Who knows. But as Dom says, I don’t think the operation L/F had in place would have ever sustained the quality of the show regardless. Lynch was too disinterested, Frost moved on too fast to direct a film, Peyton and Engels were too inexperienced to run a show, etc. It wasn’t a well-oiled machine. As Michael Horse has said, it was destined to burn brightly and die young. [/QUOTE]
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