FOX Cancels Utopia

[HauntedThunderman94]

Beginning Friday, Nov. 7, encores of Masterchef Junior will fill Utopia‘s Friday-at-8/7 timeslot.

http://tvline.com/2014/11/02/utopia-...-live-streams/

[TMC]

http://www.cinemablend.com/televisio...ion-68173.html

After consistently failing to find an audience or any kind of love among reality TV addicts, Fox has finally pulled the plug on their self-described “social experiment,” Utopia. The news is hardly a surprise, but while many are gleefully warbling “I told you so” across Twitter, few are remembering exactly how much this reality show cost the network.

[Lakeboy]

I am not surprised at all by the cancellation. In fact, I was expecting it. However, I think they owed us few devoted fans some kind of final episode. I at least wanted to see everyone say goodbye. Very Disappointed.

[irehtman]

It is stupid imitator of Survivor.

[TMC]

http://io9.com/top-10-harshest-lesso...ert-1674581807

8. People don't really want to watch social experiments televised

This might be the year that reality television finally got too clever, and faceplanted. There were a few high-profile experiments that didn't pan out. First Syfy launched Opposite Worlds, a remake of a Chilean show in which one team of contestants lives in the Stone Age and the other lives in a Space Age futuristic house full of incredible comforts, and then it's sort of like Big Brother. Then ABC had The Quest, which was an immersive fantasy quest series where a group of people act out an epic story — but the contestants kept figuring out plot twists before they were supposed to. And finally, Fox had the highly publicized disaster of Utopia, which was supposed to be a year-long experiment in creating a perfect society in the middle of nowhere. None of these shows did well, and they showed that viewers don't necessarily want to watch elaborate social experiments played out on television.