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re: Good EFFIN Gawds!!!

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Vin 02:08 pm UTC 01/26/07
In reply to: re: Good EFFIN Gawds!!! - Rabe 01:48 am UTC 01/26/07

Well, I'll take your word for the politics, Rabe. I'm not knocking the show; I've only heard good things about it and do want to watch it at some point.

Do you, or does anyone here, recall a short-lived Sci-Fi series called, I think, "The New Adventures of Jules Verne" ?

I watched it a couple of times and it was pretty cool, and seemed to hold the promise of getting cooler, but then it was cancelled. Bah.

>
>
> > I mean to watch this show on DVD at some point, but...
> >
> > There wasn't enough audience to keep it on SCI-FI, for God
> > sake, which doesn't exactly require the same numbers as
> > NBC, or even CNBC, to sustain a show. Why would anyone
> > want to gamble on that project as a MUSICAL, of all
> > things?
>
>
> Odd that statement - not enough ratings to keep it alive.
>
> It's amazing how Sci-Fi is still spinning that yarn. But,
> it's true. In the last half of the fourth season the
> ratings DID slip drastically. Kind of the way the ratings
> slipped drastically for Firefly on Fox.
>
> When Sci-Fi pulled the same shit that FOX did with the
> show. They pre-empted it, moved it around, put it on
> 'hiatus' for a very long time, came back and replayed it
> from the beginning every night on Sci-Fi so that there was
> about a year or more between the first half of the season
> and the last six episodes of season four. By the time
> they had already played those episodes, Sci-Fi had very
> publically sounded the death knell for the series.
>
> But the show HAD a fanbase and WAS Sci-Fi's most watched
> most popular programming, surviving long past all the
> other crap shows they produced right alongside of it.
> What really happened is that Sci-Fi wanted to slash the
> budget and the Henson Co said they couldn't produce the
> same quality show with that much less. Sci-Fi then
> promised it would die and die it did. They replaced it
> with Stargate SG1 which had syndication and Showtime
> backing it to build up the audience. If they were still
> doing Farscape head to head with SG1 - there'd be half the
> geek community going "Stargate what?" And Atlantis never
> would have been made.
>
> Then they insulted all of us by dicking around with the
> mini-series as well.
>
> Rabe...


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