![]() ![]() The way Swofford saw it, creating a “Granite Flats” spinoff would be a gift for fans who were left with a cliffhanger. About five months after BYUtv canceled “Granite Flats,” Plummer and Scott Swofford, who was then the director of content for BYU Broadcasting, spearheaded a project that, if approved, would keep the mysterious characters and world of “Granite Flats” very much alive. … And I think the consensus was … we’d given (the show) its very best shot, (and it was) now time to sort of move on and try something else.”īut not everyone moved on. “I do know that after three years, you look at a lot of things: You look at the cost of production, you look at the size of the audience, and although we’re a noncommercial station, you just have to make, unfortunately, some really tough judgment calls. You don’t want to walk away from that.”Īccording to Michael Dunn, BYU Broadcasting’s managing director since April 2017, several factors went into the decision - not made lightly - to end the show. Yes we did move the needle, yes we did grow the audience and yes we did get respect and recognition, but you want to keep doing that. “From the point of view of the network … the goal of the show was to move the needle outside of the … built-in audience and also to inspire the built-in audience. I found it and I still find it to be baffling, perplexing and unreasonable,” Plummer recently told the Deseret News. “To call it counterintuitive would be a gross understatement. ![]() Which is why it came as a shock to the show’s head writer, John Christian Plummer, when on Jjust over a month after Netflix began streaming the show - BYUtv announced that, contrary to the show’s season three ending, it was indeed finished with “Granite Flats.” ![]()
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