Why doesn't SCI-FI channel pick up Firefly??
POSTED BY: hunter301
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 04:44
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A) SCI-FI doesn't have very much money. Firefly is pretty expensive to produce. SG-1 has a really cheap budget for a genre show. Picking up SG-1 wasn't a big risk.
B) Firefly got terrible ratings. Networks want shows that will bring them revenue through advertising.
C) SCI-FI wasn't interested in having another "people in space" show. They are looking more into other branches of science fiction, like fantasy and historical drama.
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I have to disagree on the point that the ratings will be bad on SF. While all the people didn't like FF on the networks, channels like SF cater to the large group of people that do like it. I think SF has been trying to hard lately to get into the big budget movie making area. While I loved some of the movies, especially "Dog Soldiers" now that was a kick ass movie, most of them have been getting pretty lame including their last one "Phantom Force". SF was made for shows like FF and SG1. It should be constantly running re-runs of all the Star Trek episodes. After all that is what made science fiction. And with it being on a pay channel such as showtime and HBO you wouldn't get as big a following resulting in lower ratings again. I had to join Showtime just so I could follow the "Jeremiah" series.
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Originally posted by Lindley:
Firefly on Showtime....with naked Kaylee and Inara....*happy place*
I'll be in my bunk
Why doesn't it ever go smooth?
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Originally posted by hunter301:
I have to disagree on the point that the ratings will be bad on SF. While all the people didn't like FF on the networks, channels like SF cater to the large group of people that do like it....And with it being on a pay channel such as showtime and HBO you wouldn't get as big a following resulting in lower ratings again.
It's true that it wouldn't be expected to get higher ratings on SCI-FI, or even slightly lower ratings. FOX is available to over 90% of households; SCI-FI, not so much. But they still want a show that enough people will watch. Since the show had little viewership on FOX, that viewership would be many times smaller on SCI-FI, and it would not have been worth it for SCI-FI to pick it up. The single reason "Firefly" was cancelled was because of low ratings (right now, let's ignore the reasons why it got low ratings). That never bodes well for a series' pick-up on another network.
It is true that SCI-FI caters to SCI-FI fans, but almost everyone who has SCI-FI has FOX, so the ratings could only go down.
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Originally posted by hunter301:
While I loved some of the movies, especially "Dog Soldiers" now that was a kick ass movie, most of them have been getting pretty lame including their last one "Phantom Force".
Dog Soldiers was NOT a SciFi original movie. It was a theatrical release in the UK.
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At least I am not the only one who is questioning Sci-Fi's latest lineup.
Anybody else notice that 'A Sci-Fi Original Film' usually contains nothing original.
Arawaen
Um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm Angry. And I'm Armed.
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yeah... everytime i flip by Sci-Fi it looks like some large bug is eating people or some such nonsense.
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Sci-Fi pick up FF. Please. They cancelled Farscape that about says it all. Over in the UK we have um Veritas the Quest, Tremors and they keep showing some film called deep core? Needless to say I dont watch any of the above rubbish. When Sci-Fi have picked up good shows in the past they have nearly always cancelled them - I think that they think it makes their own stuff look good! Sky One pick up most of the good stuff SG1, Enterprise, Alias although its now appeared on Bravo go figure.
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Has anyone thought about possibly having every send a bunch of letters to the station? Maybe that could get them to at least consider it. Or maybe thye simply can't yet due to copyrights for the movie??
Sometimes dreams are all you have to keep going for the next day...
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Originally posted by SergeantX:
I remember reading that the Sci-fi channel wanted to broaden their scope and move away from spaceship style science fiction. Plus, "Firefly" would make the rest of their line-up look like a steaming pile of dog crap in comparison.
I'd rather see HBO or Showtime pick it up.
I'd love to see HBO pick up Firefly...since I don't have Showtime.
Aren't Fox and HBO owned by the same company?
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