How long can they beat this dead horse?

 Firefly seems to be on the same trajectory as Star Trek.  Original show cancelled early...legions of die hard fans...movie...reunions...  When is Firefly the Next Generation coming out?

The big difference is that Star Trek had a successful movie run before the TNG started.  Same can't be said for Firefly, it wasn't a flop but wasn't a hit either or we would be on movie number three by now.

No Fox TV shows make it .. period they cancel every new show they put out each year lol

I was never a Firefly fan. People would constantly rave about it but I never really watched it. When it started running on Science channel I did end up watching episodes and realized what they loved about it.

The show does have a diehard fanbase stronger than most other short lived shows I've ever seen. Star Trek had this as well as Buffy, and the Stargate TV franchise. Those were able to parlay that into further adventures in one way or another. Even though a theatrical was only moderately successful, I wouldn't be surprised if a special TV movie gets made for the Science Channel at some point.

 Sadly they killed off the characters of Book and Wash and actors Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are on successful shows on ABC so unless it's a TV movie I can't imagine anything else happening. 

 XJokers:  Um, I'll just rattle off a few FOX shows that have stuck around...House, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Malcom in the Middle, 24, King of the Hill, The X-Files, ...the list goes on.  All had to be new shows at some point.  I think they have had a pretty good hit ratio.  

I think Firefly was wrapped up with the film (and, if that had been truly successful, you would have seen more films...well, of the few surviving members of the team.)  It was a fun little series, but I don't see it ever going any further than it has now.  

I never saw the attaction of the show either. The fact remains is that if was all that it'd still be on the air. Or at least would have lasted longer than it did. Period.

Good point InnerSanctum, although I would point out wasn't Family Guy canceled a couple times before the brass at Fox understood what they had. The point I think Joker was trying to make is that Fox has a reputation of shooting alot of other shows dead just after the get out the gate (Space:Above and Beyond springs to mind).

At the same time, the one thing that has always frustrated me about Whedon's work was WHY it never caught on the way (I think) it should have. Firefly is a perfect example. Here he had a show with a great cast, smart scripts, well-developed characters and a setting filled with imagination and infinte possiblilties.

But above all that, it was ACCESSIBLE!   No techno talk, no TNG space anomalies,and  the stories were all character driven.  My 60 year old mother, who is not a sci fi fan at all, loved Firefly when I showed it to here because she could relate to the characters despite the sci-fi setting.

It wasn't until the Avengers came out that the rest of the world finally understood what fans of Whedon's work have known all along: Joss is one hell of a good storyteller. He is the master of ensemble fiction whether it be in tv, film or comicbook form (for those who don't know, yeah he writes for comicbooks too).

Firefly is still popular on Netflix 10 years after its birth so it still resonates with people. I only hope that because of the success of The Avengers others will take a look at his previous work and discover it for themselves.