Fox Reality Channel Calls It Quits March 31

COMMENTS (18)

• Great! A small victory for scripted television and American culture.

  Comment by Justin — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 4:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You mean people didn’t flock to reruns of Temptation Island and The Mole???

  Comment by Huntley Brinkley — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 4:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is the same company that couldn’t make The Family Channel work, so I think it says less about the concept and more about the idiots running things.

  Comment by M — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 5:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Ah yes, the FOX Family Channel. The only thing that was family is that edition of the Family Channel was the 700 Club. The rest was just FOX trash mixed in with a few movies, the Saturday Kids lineup repeating on the weekdays, and baseball in the last year of the channel (2001) before the sale to ABC. This afforded us the luxury of seeing west coast postseason baseball (ALDS or NLDS) at 11:05 PM at night start time on the East Coast. When it became ABC Family, there was a regular season Thursday baseball package, but that moved to ESPN, however the late night LDSs continued for a few years on ABC Family.

    As for FOX Reality, I am not surprised. Even with it bloated, cable is doing just as good or better than broadcast as long as you have decent programming. Many of the channels don’t have that nowdays. Expect many of the cable networks that exploit people for little or no reason or offer up reality and other trash to get the heave-ho in the coming months. I am guessing that cable companies will lose about 80 to 90 cable networks.

    Comment by Jessy S. — Thursday October 15, 2009 @ 2:08am PDT  Reply to this post

• But then what will stupid people watch now?!

  Comment by Johnnie — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 5:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • > But then what will stupid people watch now?!

    FOX News?

    Comment by Steven — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 8:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I guess we’re surrounded by stupid people … FOX News gets more viewers at 3am than CNN does at primetime.

      Comment by Buckers — Thursday October 15, 2009 @ 10:00am PDT  Reply to this post

      • I guess you’re right

        Comment by adam — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 10:51am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Why NBC of course. Fool.

    Comment by Jeff Zuuuuuuker — Thursday October 15, 2009 @ 5:51am PDT  Reply to this post

  • The 700 Club? Trinity Broadcast Network?

    Comment by Melvin Tanserbergles — Saturday October 17, 2009 @ 9:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• So… is there someone interested in buying it for the clearance? The content might be a total waste, but the clearance has to be worth something to someone.

  Comment by CMG — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 7:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• CBS.

  Comment by Duros62 — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 9:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh No! Now where am I gonna watch Househusbands of Hollywood, my new favorite show?

  Comment by Jennifer — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 9:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No surprise here.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 11:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I got sucked into a marathon of Househusbands of Hollywood…the only thing I have ever watched there…and it was actually pretty good. The dynamic of men at home and driven women, money and sex and self-esteem…with men in a more powerless position. Drama. Hope it has a life.

  Comment by Colibri — Thursday October 15, 2009 @ 11:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ok, well now we know that it will become Nat Geo Wild, a nature channel channel to go head to head with Animal Planet but that will aslo show natural world stuff too.

  I think this is the first time in decades that TV has taken a step forward to be coming more intelligent!

  Way to go FOX, you may have got one thing right!

  Comment by alex — Thursday October 29, 2009 @ 9:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Many of the shows on the channel might have been unwatchable (even the second time around) but my family and I did truly enjoy Solitare (2.0 and 3.0). I hope there is another channel that will pick up this show.

  Comment by Ron — Sunday November 15, 2009 @ 6:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• I haven’t watched the channel much, don’t care for much reality tv other than Amazing Race but have been catching the Solitary 1-3 marathon right now and it’s quite enjoyable and since season 4 is around the corner maybe season 5 can find a home somewhere else.

  And really, I’d rather have all the reality tv relegated to one channel than filling up all the channels.

  Comment by Phil — Thursday January 28, 2010 @ 3:38pm PST  Reply to this post