7 Of The Most Expensive Flops In Television History

Television programmers have to take chances in order to find the Next Big Thing. Sometimes those leaps of faith fail miserably -and expensively! Personally, I've never seen any of these shows except for The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, but that wasn't so much a flop as it was an expensive mistake. Among the rest are some truly weird ideas. Remember Cop Rock?
A police procedural musical would be one of the weirder ideas in television history, but if ABC hadn’t marketed the show and spent so heavily on the production I imagine Cop Rock would be looked at as just another weird flop, one of the probably hundreds in television history. Instead ABC seemed really, truly convinced that a musical cop show was going to work.

The show actually made it 11 episodes, which is still 11 more than I would have expected. I mean really, just for emphasis, this was a musical drama about our nation’s legal system, and it cost $2 million per episode in 1990 dollars.

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This technique is also know as Slit Scan photography. Makes for some pretty trippy images/video.

http://s12336.gridserver.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/
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It is a good effect. I think ultra subtle use could give an almost subconscious trip effect. The lines are distracting. It would be nice to see with a rendering that gave half values and smoothing to the break points so they were not obvious.
Overall very cool. :)
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While it's true that Slit Scan photography was invented by Douglas Trumbull, this technique of Slit Scan time displacement on 3d objects was first done by Zbigniew Rybczynski.
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This video did a darn good job of showing what vertigo feels/looks like to e when i've had it. You know things aren't moving like they look like they are...but you see it anyway. though this has more the trippy effect than the nausea of vertigo.
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