Sci-fi (US) picks up Firefly
POSTED BY: WhoIsRiver
UPDATED: Friday, July 8, 2005 07:29
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I'm pretty sure the e-mail for Sci-Fi's comments is feedback@scifi.com. It's the only link to contact them, but I couldn't get it to work on their page, so I just emailed normally from yahoo.
I'm assuming it went through. But, anyway, email your joy to the network and let them know how much the BDS means to us!
--Faile--
Firefly Fan Forever.
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Originally posted by ilizede:
Stargate, Atlantis, and Battlestar are SciFi's biggest shows and all air on Fridays.
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If you poeple worry about time slots of death then you don't have a DVR. I could care less when TV i watch comes on, I really don't even know when it does, cause it always comes on when I want it too :P.
Unlike the networks, Friday is SciFi's biggest night. They put their biggest and most expensive original programming into those slots. It looks like their target demographic falls into several sub-groups: doesn't go out on Friday; goes out later; goes out early and catches the late reshowings; or owns a DVR/knows how to use a VCR.
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Originally posted by benchcoat:
It looks like their target demographic falls into several sub-groups: doesn't go out on Friday; goes out later; goes out early and catches the late reshowings; or owns a DVR/knows how to use a VCR.
Good point!
I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c
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originally posted by Granite
Note to a few other earlier comments: Spike TV in US has purchased full syndication rights to ST:TNG and ST:DS9 (e.g. only they can show them) It was a big disappointment to the sci-fi channel who wanted them too. I doubt sci-fi could pick up firefly if it lost Star Trek to Spike TV. Note: NBC (which aired ST:TNG if I'm not mistaken) in owned by the same people who own sci-fi.
well you are a bit mistaken. NBC may have aired TNG where you lived, but it was from the beginning, a sydicated show. while the original Series was on NBC originally ( i could watch TNG at various times on both nbc and fox affiliates)
also, Spike TV is a part of Viacom, which also owns Paramount
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and MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, cbs, Infity Broadcasting, Comedy Central, etc, etc....
, the owners of all things Trek...
...May have been the losing side, Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
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Granite wrote, in part:
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...Note: NBC (which aired ST:TNG if I'm not mistaken) in owned by the same people who own sci-fi.
ST:TNG was a direct-to-syndication product. During its original run, it showed on F*x after the late local news in my town (i.e., 10PM). I don't believe NBC had anything to do with ST:TNG. They did originally run ST:TOS, which eventually ran just about everywhere in syndication, even though it only ran two seasons on NBC. ST:TOS currently runs on SciFi, owned by Vivendi-Universal, which also owns NBC.
First "Firefly on SciFi", then maybe with enough money, "Firefly on NBC". It's the longest possible long-shot; but since Lucas is planning on bringing a live-action Star Wars-based series to the small screen, who's to say what may be attractive to a major network to compete against it? Perhaps enough to rip our beloved Firefly from the evil clutches of F*x and get her on TV again...
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
Like I said, a long-shot. V-U/NBC would not only have to buy out F*x' rights to Firefly, but also buy out Whedon's contract with 20th Century Fox Television. While 20thCFT have been great to Joss, I'm not sure he'd be able to prosper at that studio so long as its parent company insists on making an example of him and anybody he associates with (i.e., Tim Minear). The best thing Joss ever did (and showing you what a quality guy he is) was dissolving Mutant Enemy. That move allowed his creative partners the freedom to make a significant contribution to the success of Battlestar Galactica, and F*x could do nothing to stop it...
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Originally posted by zoid:
First "Firefly on SciFi", then maybe with enough money, "Firefly on NBC".
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
Like I said, a long-shot. V-U/NBC would not only have to buy out F*x' rights to Firefly, but also buy out Whedon's contract with 20th Century Fox Television.
bah!--the stunning Serenity box office will make it an easy deal--they'll set up an in-house Joss production group, and years from now they'll still be riding high from switching one night of primetime a week to a night of all Joss and friends programming.
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benchcoat wrote:
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bah!--the stunning Serenity box office will make it an easy deal--they'll set up an in-house Joss production group, and years from now they'll still be riding high from switching one night of primetime a week to a night of all Joss and friends programming.
Amen, Brother/Sister! From your lips to God's ear (or at least to V-U/N's ear). Lest we forget, Joss and his cadre of talented associates are master storytellers. I personally look forward to the day Joss creates a real family drama. You know, believable characters as husband and wife, parents and kids; all their joys and sorrows, their tragedies and comic moments -- just like we all experience. That quality was what hooked me on Firefly (specifically, Zoe's and Wash's interactions, their 'dynamic'). I still think Z & W's marriage is the most realistic depiction of married life I have ever seen portrayed in any entertainment, screen, stage or tube. That's a series I wanna see on TV.
And to think F*x could have had it all. What a bunch of nimrods...
Respectfully,
zoid
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Has anyone heard which versions they will be airing? The ones shown on television originally, or the revised versions included on the DVDs?
Sag.
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Originally posted by embers:
this isn't an effort to bring back the TV show.
In my mind everything is an effort to bring back the show. Even three movies isn’t enough and last I heard that’s all that’s planned even if the BDM does phenomenally. Think about all that was merely implied in the series, you can tell as significant part of that in six to nine hours.
If it helps boost the movie it might help in a return to the screen.
Of course I enjoy what we have on the way, and even if there is only a single movie I shall cherish it.
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Originally posted by benchcoat:
It looks like their target demographic falls into several sub-groups: ... or owns a DVR/knows how to use a VCR.
I suddenly had a flash to Douglas Adams, unfortunately my all in one trilogy, five books and one short story, is out on loan so I can’t find a quote to share.
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