"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing"

I only got into Firefly when I was in hospital earlier this year. It is staggering the lack of foresight Fox had with this show. It's a shame it didn't have a bit more luck.

I remember Red Dwarf had even worse viewing figures for it's first series than Firefly and was likely to be cancelled. It just got lucky. Some executive at the BBC was leaving and thought to himself "What's the biggest pile of crap I can sanction to make the next guy's job even worse?" He actually commisioned a second series of Red Dwarf before the first series had even aired.

If only they ran a similar ship over at FOX as they did at the BBC...