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UPDATED: Friday, January 3, 2003 03:49
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Sci-Fi Channel ..... knows little anymore about Science or Fiction. :^( It's just a reincarnation of FOX on a cable channel. Maybe F/X would be more appropriate.
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That's a thought. Look at all the promotion FX has done for their original series "The Shield". Last year, even before it started, you couldn't hardly sneeze without seeing Michael Chiklis' face. He was on buses and billboards, not to mention all over the TV. And they started advertising season 2 MONTHS before it's aired (doesn't start until January, I saw previews in October). If FX took on the show, we can be sure that they'd promote the heck out of it. Anyone have any ideas what kinds of ratings the Shield gets? what kind of ratings they expected?
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Is there some aversion even to ACB, NBC or CBS picking the show up? It's only slightly less likely, really. UPN has Enterprise that they are still showcasing and with ratings fluctuating for that show, adding another "scifi" program to the line up is pretty slim odds unless they run the two back to back. Would anyone cry if Twilight Zone went the way of the Dodo? Paltry version of the original, IMNSHO.
I deffinately agree with Sci-Fi network. They've lost thier gourd. Cancelling Farscape was the crowning achievement in stupidity, and the replacment shows are garbage. They'll pat themselves on the back a while over Taken but that can't last. They'll see a huge drop off in overall ratings, I'd suspect, once Farscape is truly done in March, catch a few coat-tails viewers with the Dune sequel, and then they'll move on to thier rumored plan to spen $400-$500 million on original programming into 2005. I wouldn't expect them to pick up anything if they aren't willing to give an already successful show like Farscape an extended life.
I figure that ANY network, at this point, is just as viable as the next and that effort directed in any direction isn't really wasted. Except Sci-Fi of course....wankers. (lol)
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ABC, NBC and CBS have even higher ratings expectations than Fox. Also, those networks seem to shy away from Sci Fi or genre programming.
Whedon pissed off WB when he took Buffy away from them, so that leaves UPN in the broadcast realm.
Cable has additional options (Sci Fi, FX, HBO, Showtime) and then there is the syndication and/or foreign funding route.
Of all the options, UPN is the most likely to take on the show therefore it is getting that network's attention is Plan A.
mattro
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Originally posted by Hjermsted:
Whedon pissed off WB when he took Buffy away from them, so that leaves UPN in the broadcast realm.
Joss didn't piss anyone off...20th century FOX did...
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Originally posted by BRTick:
I wondered about sci-fi showing Braveheart too, it’s a fine movie, but it's not science fiction by even the loosest definition
Keep Flying.
I find it bizzare/strange/baffling that they're airing shows like "Crossing Over with John Edwards" and will be airing "The Dream Team" next year.
First... Not science.
Second... they're so called "reality" shows. (I use the term reality loosely.. cause seriously... John Edwards?)
So no science and no fiction. It's all Fantasy and Reality... Hmm... The Fan-Real Channel.
--Dylan Palmer, Pretentious Bastard at Large--
"Oh my god, I'm a hack!" - Joss Whedon
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Originally posted by BrownCoat:
Sci-Fi channel won't touch it at all. It has become a pale pathetic shade of itself. It's like the script to "Revenge of the Needs XIII". Geek Haven and popular network "Sci-Fi Channel" delights and thrills all between 1997 and 1999 with wise decisions, such as taking on Sliders, MST3K, and taking a chance on a show called Farscape.
And then, right around 1999, those damn jocks, who for whatever evil reasons love to torture the nerds, went and bought the beloved nerd channel, and started to turn it into a cynical cash cow that blindly chased from one pathetic mainstream craze to another. And they decide to "move away" from "space shows" you know..one of the main pillars of "sci fi"...
I mean what the hell..did you see it when they showed "Braveheart" last month? What the hell kind of gorram sci-fi movie is THAT!?
*grumble*
Hmm... SOMEONE has a chip on their shoulder.
--Dylan Palmer, Pretentious Bastard at Large--
"Oh my god, I'm a hack!" - Joss Whedon
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OK, yes, Sci-Fi is evil, we get the point. But c'mon, the WB? Lets see, any problems with the WB? Oh, ya... its the friggin' WB! I think FireFly needs to get onto a network that both has the cash and the viewing audience to sustain itself, and fortunately or unfortunately UPN is our best bet.
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Originally posted by Novagrass:
I find it bizzare/strange/baffling that they're airing shows like "Crossing Over with John Edwards" and will be airing "The Dream Team" next year.
First... Not science.
Second... they're so called "reality" shows. (I use the term reality loosely.. cause seriously... John Edwards?)
So no science and no fiction.
Isn't parapsychology a science, disreputable though it be? And isn't dream interpretation of central concern in psycho-analysis (a branch of psychology)? You may call them "pseudo-sciences" but what is pseudo-science if not science fiction?
Absolutely, Braveheart has no place on a sci-fi chanel but John Edward seems about right. Just 'cause you don't like Crossing Over doesn't mean it doesn't belong on the sci-fi chanel.
HKCavalier
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Originally posted by HKcavalier:
Isn't parapsychology a science, disreputable though it be? And isn't dream interpretation of central concern in psycho-analysis (a branch of psychology)? You may call them "pseudo-sciences" but what is pseudo-science if not science fiction?
Absolutely, Braveheart has no place on a sci-fi chanel but John Edward seems about right. Just 'cause you don't like Crossing Over doesn't mean it doesn't belong on the sci-fi chanel.
Pseudo-sciences, eh? I'll give you the Dream Analysts (though, again, it is a *reality* show) but in no way is what John Edwards doing science. Perhaps the basis of his training is in "parapsychology" but the moment he claims he's speaking to people who have "crossed over" and convinces millions that he is indeed talking to dead people, all rights to scientific basis in training are thrown out the window. Whether you believe in his abilities or not, John Edwards isn't entitled to work under the guise of science, IMO.
And in both cases, both series are reality shows. I may have been hyperbolizing a bit, but it was to prove the point that Science Fiction is of little concern to the programming execs at SciFi Channel anymore.
--Dylan Palmer, Pretentious Bastard at Large--
"Oh my god, I'm a hack!" - Joss Whedon
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