[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Bobboau
What I want to know is how does a show like Babylon 5 (even though LOTR sucked) have a movie and nothing more is heard, yet a fart bomb such as "Tremmers3: the quest for more money" that sucks like the vacuum of space, a few months later they have a TV show

I'm actually laughing over here, you just summed it up so well

[LAM3O]

I hated the show.  Then scorpious showed up and i loved it, then it got bad again.  Scorpious was the only thing i really liked, i hope they make a show all about him.

[Bobboau]

you know they were just about to pull the plug on SG-1 when they realised that it was a super hit, then all of the sudden we're getting like three or four seasons and a spin off, even amung TV programers these are the stupidest people(?) I have ever come to think could exsist

[Turnsky]

let's hope they don't upset George W.  

[Bobboau]

I want a list of all the great shows that has had the plug pulled by them off the top of my head I can think of
Lexx
sliders
The Invisible Man (never watched this my self)

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Bobboau
you know they were just about to pull the plug on SG-1 when they realised that it was a super hit, then all of the sudden we're getting like three or four seasons and a spin off,

They were going to pull the funding from Stargate? Gee, I'm glad they didn't! I wonder when the new season'll start in Australia..

[Turnsky]

JFK? how many free-to-air channels do you get in sydney?

'cause i only get four 2 main and two affiliate broadcasters

here they are

ABC
SBS
WIN Television (channel 9 Subsiduary)
Southern Cross Television (Affilitated with both channel 7 and ten)

Win & and SCTV are completely insane (there's not even weekday morning cartoons anymore!)

[Fetty]

ye terribly what those idiots do to tv shows
most of em dont even get aired over here
best example of big suits ****ing up i can remember is b5 crusade what they did was terrible airing em wrong ****ing up in production
bleh

[Turnsky]

you think that's bad?

i am yet to see a full season of babylon 5 (havn't even seen 1st season )

[karajorma]

Okay guys. Calm down.

Over at Farscape.com you`ll notice that the Jim Henson company are in talks to try and get a movie made. They also consider Farscape one of their flagship TV shows so i`m sure they'll try to get it done.

As for Sci-fi they obviously have no brains. They are moving away from starship based sci-fi cause stuff like tremors is cheaper. Obviously they don`t understand that cheaper often results in less viewers but since there are sci-fi fans who'll watch anything (even War of the Worlds - the TV series) they know that they'll break even so why not make the same amount of money with worse shows that have less risk?

[Turnsky]

ugh, i remember the "war of the worlds" tv series

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Turnsky
JFK? how many free-to-air channels do you get in sydney?

'cause i only get four 2 main and two affiliate broadcasters

here they are

ABC
SBS
WIN Television (channel 9 Subsiduary)
Southern Cross Television (Affilitated with both channel 7 and ten)

Win & and SCTV are completely insane (there's not even weekday morning cartoons anymore!)

Sounds about the same. In Sydney we get ABC, SBS, Ten, Seven and Nine. Ten, Seven and Nine are also broadcasting digital TV if you've got a receiver and a TV which handles it.

[Fetty]

never got here
i guess only good shows arrive over here such as farscape stargate b5 n stuff

[demon442]

It's sad, really.  The lengths productions executives will go just to make a quick buck.  To cancel one of their biggest money-makers in favor of "Tremors: Cash-Cow on life suport".  But, it just goes to show you how ****ed up the corporate world really is.

I say no more, no more should we let something we devote (sometimes religously) our time and effort to be killed by some jack off in a cushy office chair.  There needs to be a great change in the way sci-fi conducts its business, I call to all of the hardcore Farscape viewers to band together with your fellow man and strike back at the company that has forsaken us so.  This will be the last time Sci-Fi screws us over.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Y'know I see a lot of swearing on this thread, inventive swearing by Stryke, carefully worded swearing by Bob and other sporadic outbursts. Normally I'd be a bit miffed but after having seen the series 'pseudo-finale' a week or two ago I think I'm still blinded by rage and fully endorse all of the miffed ranting that goes on in this thread.

*Breaks out the Hard Light 'special issue hardware'*

Anyone know where those bastards live?
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[Stryke 9]

Ooh! Carte blanche!

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[Liberator]

Ooookay:eek2:

Let's just feed the execs to their Graboids.  Then chop up the the Graboid and throw it into a volcano then seal the volcano with a nuke.

Then we double the funding to Farscape and get the final season made it style. :thepimp:

[karajorma]

Originally posted by demon442
I say no more, no more should we let something we devote (sometimes religously) our time and effort to be killed by some jack off in a cushy office chair.  There needs to be a great change in the way sci-fi conducts its business, I call to all of the hardcore Farscape viewers to band together with your fellow man and strike back at the company that has forsaken us so.  This will be the last time Sci-Fi screws us over.

Almost anything good is on usenet a few days later. If you want to hit Sci-fi where it hurts why not simply cancel your subscription and watch everything a day later off of the net.

Seriously the number of sci-fi fans who have broadband is way above average. If all of them simply cancelled we'd have the network execs by the short and curlies by the end of the week.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by karajorma

Seriously the number of sci-fi fans who have broadband is way above average. If all of them simply cancelled we'd have the network execs by the short and curlies by the end of the week.

[color=66ff00]Good in theory pity nobody ever gets motivated enough to care. As for me I don't have SciFi for the reason that it was really bad for a really long time, ironically it got better a few months after we stopped getting Satellite.
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[Stryke 9]

Heey! No fair!


Fine, gimme some names, I'll toss 'em in.

And technically, I'm quite sure sci-fi fans are demographically MUCH more tech- (and internet-) savvy than the average Billy-Bob, and seeing from all the *****ing I've seen online if you organized this well you could make the Sci-fi channel easily lose about 5% of its viewers.

In case you weren't aware, 5% for a big company is a lot. That, and the possibility that the trend wouldn't stop there, would mean that SFC execs would be faced between the choices of replacing the show and bankruptcy. Extortion, yes, but only in that you're refusing to be sold by them any more.

The trick is, of course, getting all those people willing to go that far. Not impossible, by any means, but you need a cause more sweeping and... well, interesting than Farscape to get a boycott. Maybe a whole BUNCH of good shows they canceled for the current crap.