Third Season Money

[Hal356]

If a Third Season was to be made, how much of a donation would be needed to actually get everyone back on their feet for a third season of the Big O? Who would this donation go to?

I was just thinking this because if I won the lottery (fat chance), I would put the lottery money toward a 3rd season of The Big O. Would this all be possible?

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

If you have the cash, I'm sure Sunrise would make a 3rd season.

[Professor Vogler]

I'd saying maybe a full season of 13 episodes, a couple hundred-thousand.

An OVA might be cheeper, and awesome.

The real trick (aside from finding the money)... ((and convincing them to get off their asses))... is to get the original team back together.

[Big Duo]

I'm just curious about The Big-O.  Will there ever be a 3rd Season?  Is Bandai (or whichever company that produces Big-O) considering installing a 3rd season? 

[R. Daniel 01]

As far as we know, nobody is planning to make a third season. The task rests entirely on us fans.

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

CN has the option to make I think 2 more seasons of Big O when the second season was airing on AS, but we all know how that story turned out. It's not like the interest in a 3rd season isn't there, it's discussed quite a bit on the AS forums. 

[Big Duo]

So I guess the people behind Big-O didn't want it.... I wonder if it will ever get a 3rd installment?  I would like it.  It would be cool if there was something that was made called Big-O: The Lost Episodes or something.  Oh well...

BTW - has anybody recently heard anything from CN/Bandai/etc. about ever making another season?

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

If I recall the reason it didn't get a 3rd season was because of "low ratings", which is a crock. When the second season premiered, Big O was pulling 800k viewers per episode. It really boiled down to Mike Lazzo's dislike Big O and anime in general. The fact that Big O was beating several of the comedy shows didn't help matters either.

[Char Aznable]

I think I've said it before and I'll say it again: Lazzo needs to pull his head out of his ass and get over his hating of anime that people like. So what Big-O beat his beloved comedy? He needs to worry about the ratings game, not his personal tastes in television. New Big-O=Ratings=Loads-O'-Money.

[EyeOfPain]

If I recall the reason it didn't get a 3rd season was because of "low ratings", which is a crock. When the second season premiered, Big O was pulling 800k viewers per episode.

And at the same time, most of the comedies were getting somewhere around 1Mil+ views. It's not that TBO got bad ratings, just not the ratings they wanted.

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

If I recall the reason it didn't get a 3rd season was because of "low ratings", which is a crock. When the second season premiered, Big O was pulling 800k viewers per episode.

And at the same time, most of the comedies were getting somewhere around 1Mil+ views. It's not that TBO got bad ratings, just not the ratings they wanted.

Family Guy I know was pulling 1 mil+, the others I'm not so sure about. I remember Lazzo being furious that Big O beating Aqua Team, and the other home grown stuff.

Either way, a 3rd season would be nice, as they have replayed the second season to death.

[Sharpshooter005]

Family Guy reruns are consistently the highest ranking show in their ratings. But thats just because people are way too into remembering pop-culture bullshit from 1980s.

The fact is anime is never much of a draw comparatively, the numbers across the board for all shows are lower. You can argue this is partly because of when its aired (saturday nights, the target demographic is usually busy or otherwise not watching t.v then), you can argue its because animu isn't as big a thing, but there was and is no grand conspiracy to keep the big o off the air.

Face it, the second season was a big investment for a basic cable network programming block. And it didn't yield the returns they wanted. Television is above all a business, the show was a business venture, it didn't pan out.

Furthermore, and I keep hearing "BUT A THIRD SEASON WAS PLANNED/MEANT TO HAPPEN/STILL COULD". If the writer had such a brilliant idea for a third season then why hasn't he posted this onto the internet, people would love to know. Hell as critical as I am of the second season/the reaction the fanbase has had, if he came up with even a vague outline of ideas I'd read it. He hasn't.

The fact a second season was even produced due to fan response is more than most shows, and I don't even mean animu, ever get.

edit: If you wanna latch onto a failed cause for a third season of a show, feel free to write into fox and tell them to drop that hack nerd-celeb joss whedon's project and put on another season of terminator: the sarah connor chronicles. I'd enjoy that.

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

Family Guy reruns are consistently the highest ranking show in their ratings. But thats just because people are way too into remembering pop-culture bullshit from 1980s.

The fact is anime is never much of a draw comparatively, the numbers across the board for all shows are lower. You can argue this is partly because of when its aired (saturday nights, the target demographic is usually busy or otherwise not watching t.v then), you can argue its because animu isn't as big a thing, but there was and is no grand conspiracy to keep the big o off the air.

Face it, the second season was a big investment for a basic cable network programming block. And it didn't yield the returns they wanted. Television is above all a business, the show was a business venture, it didn't pan out.

Furthermore, and I keep hearing "BUT A THIRD SEASON WAS PLANNED/MEANT TO HAPPEN/STILL COULD". If the writer had such a brilliant idea for a third season then why hasn't he posted this onto the internet, people would love to know. Hell as critical as I am of the second season/the reaction the fanbase has had, if he came up with even a vague outline of ideas I'd read it. He hasn't.

The fact a second season was even produced due to fan response is more than most shows, and I don't even mean animu, ever get.

edit: If you wanna latch onto a failed cause for a third season of a show, feel free to write into fox and tell them to drop that hack nerd-celeb joss whedon's project and put on another season of terminator: the sarah connor chronicles. I'd enjoy that.

I can agree with this.

They canned/thinking of canning the Sarah Connor Chronicles?

[Sharpshooter005]

Axed it, it's done.

Then again unless they made the third season just however many episodes of resistance forces fighting robots I dunno where it could go from the last episode.

(I would not have minded a whole season of guerilla anti-terminator warfare, band of brothers but the nazis are made of metal is a good concept.)

[Professor Vogler]

If the writer had such a brilliant idea for a third season then why hasn't he posted this onto the internet, people would love to know.

Actually it's quite common for writers to not divulge plans for seasons or shows that got ended early or just not renewed. There's always that "what if", and if they can still make money off of it why give it away for free?