No more Firefly on SciFi fridays..

POSTED BY: AcesAndEights
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 22:55
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ACESANDEIGHTS

Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:34 AM

Apparently, after the conclusion of todays marathon, Firefly is off of the SciFi airwaves in favor of.. John Doe? I don't know if this has been posted already, but I thought I would spread the word.

http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=13-JAN-2006&feed_req=

Here's next weeks schedule. Firefly is out of the timeslot, and there is a Stargate mini-marathon. (7:00 Pm est)

http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=20-JAN-2006&feed_req=

And here's the schedule for the week after that. Notice that the *great* show John Doe has replaced Firefly.

So, now it's up to the browncoats once more to spread the word by ourselves, just as we always have.

ZOID

Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:39 AM

AcesAndEights wrote:

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...So, now it's up to the browncoats once more to spread the word by ourselves, just as we always have.

...At least until SciFi see the ratings for the Firefly marathon, which will hopefully be good.

v/r,
-zed

NDRAGE85

Saturday, January 7, 2006 1:09 AM

i heard they are going to start airing reruns of the soap opera Passions. I think it would be better if they ran constant reruns of the 14 episodes of Firefly rather than run that garbage.

NUCKLES87

Saturday, January 7, 2006 4:41 AM

John Doe? Great :D. Yet another Fox show that got canned before it's time. Ended on a cliffhanger .

Here's hoping SciFi is looking to bringing these shows back.

FIVEBYFIVE

Saturday, January 7, 2006 5:14 AM

Haha why don't they just show The Lone Gunmen while they're at it.

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JERRYT

Saturday, January 7, 2006 9:40 PM

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Originally posted by fivebyfive:
Haha why don't they just show The Lone Gunmen while they're at it.

I just got my Lone Gunmen boxed set. Don't need the Sci-Fi channel now.

JerryT
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DONCOAT

Sunday, January 8, 2006 4:33 PM

In a way, I think this is a good thing. With only 14 episodes (15 hours of programming), a weekly rerun will quickly become repetitive to the casual viewer.

Of course, we'd like to think that people will see Firefly, love it, and start demanding new episodes... but realistically, we can't expect everyone to "get it".

We don't want our beloved 'verse to become a laughingstock among the unwashed and ignorant masses, do we?

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ECGORDON

Sunday, January 8, 2006 4:42 PM

I'm sure they have the rights to the series for a while longer, and they will probably run it in weekday mini-marathons like they do now with Sliders, Roar, the original BSG, among others. You can only access their schedule through February at this time, so let's wait another month and search for it in March before we panic.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

KRAD

Sunday, January 8, 2006 4:47 PM

Actually, from what I heard, Sci-Fi originally didn't intend to run through Firefly more than once. They mainly picked it up as a vehicle for promoting the movie (Sci-Fi is owned by NBC/Universal, who produced and distributed Serenity), but the ratings were good enough that they did a second run-through and now the marathon. But generally, Sci-Fi doesn't run through shows more than once or twice in this manner because the ratings don't hold up. (The lone exception has been their Monday night block of four SG1 episodes, which has continued to get excellent ratings.)

But Firefly did pretty well for them, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put it back in the rotation after a few months.

Keith R.A. DeCandido
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BROWNCOAT1

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:55 PM

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Originally posted by KRAD:
Actually, from what I heard, Sci-Fi originally didn't intend to run through Firefly more than once. They mainly picked it up as a vehicle for promoting the movie (Sci-Fi is owned by NBC/Universal, who produced and distributed Serenity), but the ratings were good enough that they did a second run-through and now the marathon. But generally, Sci-Fi doesn't run through shows more than once or twice in this manner because the ratings don't hold up. (The lone exception has been their Monday night block of four SG1 episodes, which has continued to get excellent ratings.)

But Firefly did pretty well for them, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put it back in the rotation after a few months.

Thanks for the info Keith. It is much appreciated.

I think that Sci Fi will see that Firefly draws in the ratings & will put it back into their line up sometime down the road.

Of course browncoats it doesn't hurt to send some very politely worded emails asking what happened to Firefly & when they intend to return it to their line up.

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