September 01 2011
10 Actual Mistakes that Syfy Has Made Over the Years.
See number 6...
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Canis_Latrans | September 01, 13:14 CET
Actually at the time Sci-fi had a number of shows set in space and IIRC they say/used to say that they liked to have at least one at all times. Maybe it was the expense, especially before DVDs have proven Firefly's totally unprecendented continuing popularity or because they thought they already had a couple of similar shows. I had heard expense was a big issue, a few years ago. Nowadays it seems like Syfy is obsessed with paranormal reality and wrestling, but I do think they want a space show, even if the current one have all been cancelled early, which is mostly to do with low ratings wherever they were on the schedule.
After picking up SG1, Sci-fi did become a target of "why the hell won't they pick up show X, those ratings would be awesome for them!" I can see why they don't most of the time, who wants to be known as the dumping ground network, even if it would be awesome to us. Not to mention many of those shows were expensive and they had their own development slate. Although a lot of those shows might be better than whichever reality show is on tonight.
IIRC Farscape was unexpectedly cancelled mainly due to the parent company having to re-finance and not the fault of the actual network at the time. At least we got PK Wars, which was a much much better wrap up than most cancelled genre shows get. Atlantis was primiarily ended by MGM rather than Syfy. They wanted to go with SGU and either couldn't afford to run two shows at the same time or just didn't want to, depending on which article you read. Eureka is a WTF? For me because it looks to be doing great and the announcing a renewal and then taking it back is a PR nightmare, but the numbers must make it less profitable than you would think.
I 100% agree about the name change though, even if I understand why they did it, blech, awful.
[ edited by Heavs on 2011-09-02 00:26 ]
Heavs | September 01, 13:54 CET
IrrationaliTV | September 01, 13:57 CET
[ edited by racheltng on 2011-09-02 05:34 ]
racheltng | September 01, 20:33 CET
When I see "Syfy", I don't think Sci-Fi. I imagine this as another home care shopping channel that is trying to have an unusual name.
OneTeV | September 02, 05:27 CET
Kayley | September 02, 16:41 CET