Well you said it yourself in one of your posts when Fringe premiered it   
   had over 9 million viewers. Now it is averaging around 6 milion. Between   
   the first season and now the show lost 3 million viewers! This is not   
   good for Fox, or the businessess that buy air time from Fox to sell   
   their products. If Fox promised them a certain amount of viewers, and   
   they do not get that amount they have to refund or compensate those   
   companies in some way to make up for the short fall. That hurts the   
   bottom line of both Fox, and the companies that buy time on Fox. Now I   
   know you hate the rating system but that is all they have right now to   
   go by, and they treat it like it is the "Bible", or something. If the   
   ratings come up short the Networks, and the companies all act   
   accordingly. Now to make matters even worse the lead in show to Fringe,   
   Bones is now averaging 9 million viewers an episode. So right after that   
   show airs 3 million Bones watchers switch the channel. Probably to CSI.   
   That is exactly what I will be doing now that Fringe no longer interests   
   me!   
      
   By the way I hope that "V" turns out be as good as the previews that   
   have been airing on ABC. Maybe we will finally get a real X-FIles clone   
   to talk about!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)