Fox has all but given up on Utopia
Like a perfect society that somehow fails to emerge from a group of reality show contestants, Fox has similarly failed to turn Utopia into a hit despite all its repeated yelling. Much fanfare greeted the network’s launch of its “social experiment,” which involves stranding a group of people whose simplistic personalities read like the Twitter bios of accounts you automatically block to see if they could fight for a year without causing any major lawsuits. However idealistic their intentions, the ratings have remained abysmal, averaging under 2 million viewers per episode. And this has prompted Fox to pull Utopia from Tuesday nights, leaving just a Friday slot remaining for a show that Fox once hoped could run all year long. Alas, Fox’s hopes, like those of so many societies, are so easily trampled by rampaging hillbillies.