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Syfy Orders New Seasons Of 'Stargate: Universe,' 'Sanctuary'
Airlock Alpha ^ | 12/14/09 | MICHAEL HINMAN

Posted on 12/14/2009 6:26:37 PM PST by KevinDavis

Friday nights might not be too hot when it comes to network television, but it might be because viewers are heading to cable instead.

Syfy's fall one-two Friday punch of "Stargate: Universe" and "Sanctuary" earned season renewals late Sunday, confirming what many observers had predicted would happen all along thanks to strong ratings from both shows. In fact, both SGU and "Sanctuary" even beat out network programming more than once, including the Joss Whedon series "Dollhouse" on Fox, which has since been cancelled.

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KEYWORDS: scifi; stargate
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Good new and bad news....
1 posted on 12/14/2009 6:26:39 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 12/14/2009 6:27:27 PM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: KevinDavis

I kind of like both shows.


3 posted on 12/14/2009 6:30:59 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: KevinDavis

liked the movie with kirk russell couldn’t get into any of the tv series


4 posted on 12/14/2009 6:32:26 PM PST by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: KevinDavis

Sanctuary is unwatchable.


5 posted on 12/14/2009 6:32:41 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: KevinDavis

SGU is a soap opera. Where’s the science fiction?


6 posted on 12/14/2009 6:36:13 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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Sanctuary is unwatchable.

So is Stargate Universe. They turned it into a homopromo.

7 posted on 12/14/2009 6:44:28 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: KevinDavis

It would be interesting to see if SyFy has enough left to pick up a remodeled Dollhouse.


8 posted on 12/14/2009 6:45:36 PM PST by GeronL (Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
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To: aimhigh

Its becoming BSG Mini. I hope the aliens Dr. Rush befriends (if he does) aren’t robotic at all. Lost in space trying to find Earth.... you know


9 posted on 12/14/2009 6:47:07 PM PST by GeronL (Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You are right SGU is a soap. I hope we see aliens in the future. I want more science fiction. Perhaps the with the Doctor being stranded on the desert planet with the unknown alien spacecraft a new storyline will introduce something new.


10 posted on 12/14/2009 6:49:28 PM PST by Destroyer Sailor
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To: Destroyer Sailor
I quit watching. I started watching the "Justice" ep and just gave up.

I am so disappointed. They're on a ship built by the Ancients. The story is only limited by the writers imaginations. Instead we get to watch As the Stomach Turns. *sigh*

11 posted on 12/14/2009 6:57:23 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Sanctuary is unwatchable.

I agree. So is "Stargate: Universe".

Fridys on 'that' sci-fi channel bite. The whole channel bites.

It's turned into a dumping ground for NBC shows that can't get ratings on their mainstream network.
Sci-Fi? What the hell is so 'sci-fi' about ghost hunters? That is pure fiction. No science to it.
"Scare Tactics"? WTF?
"Monster Quest"? Gimme a break.
"Breast...I mean 'Ghost' Whisperer"? Come on.

"Caprica" may be the last, best hope for this channel.

They say "Imagine Greater".

How about imagining 'better'?

12 posted on 12/14/2009 7:07:02 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: aimhigh
They turned it into a homopromo.

Huh? One character. And her lover isn't even on the ship.
Everyone on the ship is jumping into bed hetero style.

Basically, it aint "Torchwood".

13 posted on 12/14/2009 7:14:38 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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SGU is the best of the series.

A few lipstick lesbo scenes does not make a homopromo show.

It is more a shoutout to teenage boys.

The more it is like BSG the better.

The less Egyptian Aliens in 16th Century European clothes speaking perfect 21st century American English the better.


14 posted on 12/14/2009 7:16:47 PM PST by Reaganez
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I find both very tedious and a continuation of the “droll” and dispiriting that has influenced sci fi since the miserable Battlescar Gallatica series. If I wanted to watch soap operas I’d quit my job and and watch “My Life is F’d” on one of the networks in the PM.


15 posted on 12/14/2009 7:19:52 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: KevinDavis

I bailed on SGU after episode 5. It’s bad.

That new girl on Sanctuary (well, maybe not so new anymore) is horrible and she is torpedoing the series.


16 posted on 12/14/2009 7:19:56 PM PST by Ted Grant
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To: KevinDavis

SGU sucks, SGA is good.


17 posted on 12/14/2009 7:23:46 PM PST by dila813
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To: Reaganez
A few lipstick lesbo scenes does not make a homopromo show.

Log Cabin Republican?

18 posted on 12/14/2009 7:42:44 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Prudish self-hating fag?


19 posted on 12/14/2009 7:47:56 PM PST by Reaganez
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To: Reaganez

I disagree. It is another attempt to mainstream a perverted lifestyle.


20 posted on 12/14/2009 7:52:17 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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