Originally Posted By: Dignan
Fox decided that the best way to launch a series was to deprive the fans of one show so that they could expose them to the new one.

FWIW, this is called a "back door pilot". It happens from time to time: Mork and Mindy and the "Assignment: Earth" episode (with Gary Seven and his cat and Teri Garr set in the 1960s) of Star Trek.

One thing you failed to mention about the back door pilot for The Finder is that, ignoring its back-door-pilot-ness, it was still awful.
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