Next time watch it LEGALLY

...um....watching it legally has nothing to do with the series being cancelled.....sorry...try again...

Watching shows legally can contribute but it rarely does.

For one, your television has to have a device fitted in order for it to be transmitted and counted towards ratings. Does your TV have one of those? If not, you're practically not watching it, even when you are.

Second, I invite ten friends over to watch the show every week. That's ten people in my house that are watching it... but it only counts as one viewer. I could have a thousand people over... and I'd still just be one viewer. And that's considering my TV had the device I mentioned above.

Third, "Invasion" was cancelled because viewers dropped. Not because they chose to download every single episode illegally, but because some people just didn't like it. It took a while to build up {and this was the network's decision, not the creator's} and some lost interest. Not to mention the fact ABC messed with its schedule many times and the promo wasn't anything to shout home about.

So if anyone's to blame, it's ABC. So really, all I have to say to you is:

Next time get your facts RIGHT.

It makes absolutely no difference unless you have a Nielsen box. Place 100% of the blame on the woefully outdated and completely ineffectual methodology the TV corporations utilize. They need to wake up and smell the 21st century, seriously... No one wants to pay their exorbitant prices to watch TV anymore, people want to watch on their schedule not some arbitrary time slots, and with two minutes of commercials every five minutes bullpucky. More and more tech-savvy people are turning to the internet for their TV and movie entertainment. It would behoove the entire industry as a whole to bow to the will of the consumer and take advantage of the growing technology... In other words, no.

"Next time watch it LEGALLY ... so it won't be cancelled." by Korialstrash

yeah I just watched this now, how does this affect it beeing canceled again ?

Many shows dont make it outside united states before getting canceled.. some won't even make it to the UK before first beeing canceled..

your post doesn't make any sense at all.

When are the TV companies going to wake up and get on board with TV streaming/downloads. If they put them up with adverts in, I would download them. But I have a life and a demanding job and would never plan my activities around a TV schedule.

So I downloaded it. But by the time I was watching in the UK, the show was already in trouble in America and had lost over 7m viewers. With 2 hiatuses and a 3 week break in it's first season, these 7m just didn't follow it.

The only thing that will kill a TV show these days is if it's truly awful or if it's badly handled by the TV company.

Completely false thinking

If its on tv, most people will watch a show they want to watch on the TV,

The people who download illegally are usually not from the USA, for instance a massive number of brits download US shows because it is shown a long time after it is shown in the USA.
I know a similar thing happens for hit UK shows such as top gear, and of course no brit would bother illegally downloading Top Gear.

Same thing happens for films.

The whole issue is that tv & movie companies just do not understand the digital revolution means we want it now, and do not want to wait 12 months until we can see what the guys across the pond see.

We need more partnerships between UK TV & US TV stations so that shows that are great are broadcast close to each other and the cost is spread.

In your defense... television as a whole suffers from the internet...
Numbers are down on all shows, as a whole. But that wasn't Invasions downfall.

If anything, watching shows ilegally saved some shows... Im one of many ppl that stopped watching Lost in Season 1 when they went to repeats a 3rd of the way into the season. I gave up on it, for about 2 years, until i watched them online. Now i watch it every week on tv. The rest of my household enjoyed episodes 1-3 then quit on the show also, never to return... I suspect alot of households were like that. With only the loyalists returning.

However...It's completely and utterly rediculous to say ppl watching shows illegally is why Invasion died out.

There are many successful shows that get watched illegally... Lost, Fringe, True Blood, many many more... They are thriving, living long fruitful lives, being the most popular shows in the nation...

So according to your theory.. Why havent these other shows died out????
They havent died out because they are actually good, compared to Invasion, which started wayyy too slow out the gate, and lost viewership, before they could even start to get good.

Blame the show, not ilegal downloading...

Good writers and brilliant scripts beat ilegal downloading issues any day.

I did. But living in the UK, I can't help save the TV series survive seeing as I'm not part of the intial audience.

Maybe if they counted the downloads, legal+illegal, they'd get a better idea of viewing figures. I dunno.... Waiting for TV in the UK sucks ass. Specially as the good stuff goes straight to SKY tv and Vigin tv etc......