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jerseydevil said:
Far as I know Amazon is where Justified got sold to and I do not think it qualifies for Amazon Prime(you may wanna check), but yeah, I would imagine dvd sales are a large part of it. Odd though, I think it may be a creator owned issue because all of Fx's shows have varying degrees of accessibility. A LOT on Netflix(Louie/Sons/Wilfred) but then you have your Shield/Justified which are on Amazon(Shield also on Hulu, I think). In the case of Wilfred/Louie those went up pretty quickly after the dvd sets went on sale so like I said it seems to be a case by case issue.
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Yeah Amazon Prime was how i watched all but the most current season of Justified
 


FX has released the first red-band trailer for its new animated series Chozen, and it looks like it will make a fine companion to the excellent Archer. Created by Grant Dekernion and executive produced by the same folks behind Archer and Eastbound and Down, the series revolves around a gay white rapper fresh out of prison who sets out for redemption and to claim his rightful position as the world’s top rap artist. Bobby Moynihan voices the lead character to great effect, and this trailer highlights a swell sense of humor that should connect with fans of Archer and Eastbound.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The series also features the voices of Hannibal Buress, Michael Pena, Nick Swardson, Kathryn Hahn, and Method Man. Chozen will premiere on FX January 13th.
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So, Archer is moving to Mondays...and this got taken from FXX and put in the enviable position of following Archer. Dunno. I am gonna watch it, but it looks dangerously one note. And I get being challenging, but you have to be funny too. We shall see.
 
FXX cancels Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, causing more brand confusion

The talk show was one of three series that jumped from FX to FXX when the channel launched in September, expanding from a weekly series to a nightly strip, going head-to-head (for all or half of each episode) with Jon Stewart, Conan, Colbert, Leno, Letterman and Kimmel. (On FX, it had aired at 11:30, meaning it at least avoided "The Daily Show" and the first half of "Conan.") FXX is available in 26 million fewer homes than FX, and often on obscure spots in cable channel line-ups (since it took over the space left by Fox Soccer, which was tiered with other sports channels), and the ratings for "Totally Biased" cratered. As Deadline noted late last month, a recent Monday installment of the show drew only 12,000 total viewers, and only 4,000 among adults 18-49. Even on nights when it aired after fellow FX emigres "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The League," it was only averaging 110,000 viewers, less than a third of the audience from the end of its FX run.

Still, this is the second bit of recent news that doesn't speak well to the idea of expanding the FX brand across multiple channels. Last week, FX announced that "Chozen," an animated comedy designated as the first wholly-original FXX series, would instead be part of the main channel, airing after "Archer." (Its spot on the FXX schedule will be filled with decade-old repeats of "Da Ali Go Show.")

The "Totally Biased" ratings were terrible, and there's a certain threshold below which cancellation is inevitable for any show on any channel. That said, the whole point of moving "Totally Biased" and turning it into a nightly show was to expand the new channel's footprint and give it a distinctive and constant voice. "Always Sunny" and "The League" have done okay with the move, but both were much more established, and also only air one night a week for a few months out of the year. If the audience didn't want to follow Bell and his cohorts to the new channel, then they didn't want to follow. But with only the modestly-rated "Legit" and those "Ali G" repeats coming up in early 2014, FXX is barely going to have any identity at all, other than a place to watch many excellent reruns of "Parks and Recreation" and "Freaks and Geeks."
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OOOh...not good. Growing pains or simply not being ready to launch a new network. Spreading too thin. Just hope folks follow LEGIT when it gets stranded on FXX
 
notbob said:
I wonder if some of it has to do with not being able to find the channel. FXX is nowhere near the channels i watch
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Indeed. They pimped their website for finding your channel number pretty well, but... for me, it's right in the middle of a bunch of sports channels. So when I'm guide-surfing, I almost never even see it.

Not good.

I do hope they find a way to turn it around, though. Maybe they should take a page from IFC's book and see about licensing some no longer airing comedy shows. IFC regularly gets my guide-surfing attention with Arrested Development, Mr. Show, etc. They ought to look for similar. In addition to airing previous episodes of stuff they already have, as previously discussed.
 
THE SIMPSONS Syndication and Streaming Rights Head to FXX | Collider

The longest running animated series of all time has just landed one of the biggest syndication deals ever. FX’s new comedy-centric spinoff network FXX has acquired the syndication rights for all 24 seasons of The Simpsons in a lucrative nine-figure deal, with all 530 episodes expected to be in heavy rotation starting next August. Maybe more interesting, though, is the fact that the deal also calls for The Simpsons to be available to stream on demand for the first time ever. FXX subscribers will be able to watch The Simpsons anytime courtesy of the soon-to-launch FXNOW mobile app, and Vulture points out that the size of this deal means The Simpsons won’t be coming to Netflix or Hulu anytime soon.
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as far as the channel, if they have content...folks will find it.
 
I have uverse and they just planted the network directly after FX. It's not hard to find (for me anyway).

Give them content, they will come.
 
ucsdguy1 said:
well I just heard Eric the Midget was given a recurring role on Legit, and it may be moved to FXX.

my god.
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So that was the show they were talking about...came in late to the conversation. No doubt ETA :winky2: would be part of the crew that frequents the rehab center where DJ Qualls character goes. They ARE moving it to FXX though. FXX appears to be the comedy wing of FX. I hope they are planning to support it a little better than they have with the programming marooned there so far. Chozen, that horrible looking(and yeah...it looks horrible) cartoon about the first gay white rapper(yeah...special interest groups, the # for Fx is _ _ _-_ _ _-_ _ _ _) was supposed to premiere on FXX but instead got moved to the coveted post ARCHER spot. I love FX, favorite network hands down...but the FXX birth has been sloppy so far.
 
Eric spent the next few minutes complaining to his unpaid agent that (a) he was supposed to have that job a year ago, and (b) that shooting starts dec 2 which is too close to the busy thanksgiving travel season, and not enough time to plan for his oxygen tank on the plane/hotel. I love it

at least being able to record a series on dvr means Legit will be taped wherever it airs
 
adgy-san said:
Indeed. They pimped their website for finding your channel number pretty well, but... for me, it's right in the middle of a bunch of sports channels. So when I'm guide-surfing, I almost never even see it.

Not good.
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So I get home after writing this and there's a message on my receiver saying the channel has moved to 265, or something.

So that's good.
 
God Damnit...why did Spaulding/Riff Raff need to die? And kudos to Ryan Murphy, kindasortaNecropheliacThreesome...CHECK!!!!!! How fooking allthatisman is Danny Huston????? Good lord, another MAGIC season.
 
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