Didn't it get roughly the same viewers that BSG did, except they considered BSG a success because it was on cable instead of network?

Genre shows can't survive on network. Execs don't watch or understand it, geeks don't watch it on TV they wait and download it or watch it online and that doesn't work for advertisers. A good rating for SyFy is the pits for Fox. Maybe at some point producers will stop trying to pitch their shows to networks and "settle" for putting a show on a cable network for as long as they can manage.

Remember folks, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a syndicated show, not a network feature, and so was DS9. There's a damn good reason those series went on forever, and a damn good reason Voyager was on UPN and still sucked and the same goes for Enterprise. Genre shows just don't work on networks and the ones that do are very very lucky and special. (x-files is the only quality exception and I think even today if x-files was fighting for ratings right now they'd lose to online/dvr viewers).

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Hmm. That MGM sure likes their DVD movies like Stargate...

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End of Show is actually wrong on this front. The B5 DVD did well and Warner was pleased. But they offered creator J. Michael Straczynski a cosmically low budget for making more DVD movies. He regretfully passed.

But End of Show is right on point. It's a great idea to continue TSCC on DVD. Unfortunately Warner is very tight-fisted and I can't see how TSCC could be produced on the budgets they are offering for these projects.

They apparently don't believe enough in this market to risk any money. And because they don't believe in it, they have no data to show they should change their minds.

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But SyFy will probably just make more Flash Gordon crap instead.

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--Kyle

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Idiots.

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They Won't Be Back

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These canceled shows are a mixed blessing for us viewers, though - viewers are already hesitant to "invest" in new shows and I think we're really going to start seeing revenues drop for the big carriers like FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC as more and more viewers start leaving specific channels and not coming back. I watch nothing - ZERO - on CBS - I get my episodes of "The Unit" online - screw commercials. The downside is, of course, that if enough people do the same, "The Unit" will go away... but I don't care - I'm not giving these FOX bozos any more of my attention and I hope they all end up writing screenplays for off-Broadway shows.

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but i'm still watchin dexter :( it may have to be a noble sacrifice..

bah, dont think they give a fuck about uk ratings anyway

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