"Stargate: Universe" canceled; "Caprica" already gone

5/18/11

[pabianice]

Just the headline via email.

[massgopguy]

The Event is canceled as well.

[Sybeck1]

What is on SYFY now? Ghosts and paranormal and wrestling?

[ShadowAce]

SGU ended suckily. I hated that ending.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

This is VERY old news. What’s the point of this thread?

[libertarian27]

I am so ticked “The Event’ is cancelled - this week’s episode’s last shot finally showed the aliens planet - then the white light. So I guess the white screen must symbolize the cancellation.

Hopefully another network will pick it up.

“No Ordinary Family” was pretty good too and that’s gone....

[captain_dave]

This is what happens when you don’t maintain your starships, space docks or pay the aliens. The Vulcans all left years ago. It’s the studios fault.

[Rebelbase]

Sci-Fi lost me once they started running that paranormal crap more than once a week.

[pabianice]

SyFy (SciFi) gambled on a steady sizable audience. The hard truth is that the majority of scifi is junk or, at best, watchable once. There is simply not enough watchable scifi to make a network schedule. “Sanctuary” has also vanished, and that was marginal at best. On the other hand, “I Shouldn’t Be Alive,” while a great show, is on The Animal Planet. Need to fill those schedule slots.

[Big_Harry]

We really enjoyed the first season of SGU, but halfway through the final ten episodes, it seemed like they changed writers.

[mnehring]

You should read FR more, we saw this here weeks and weeks ago.

[Big_Harry]

We really enjoyed the first season of SGU, but halfway through the final ten episodes, it seemed like they changed writers.

[Michael Barnes]

NO doubt...I no what they were going for; but SyFy pulled another "Farscape".

The network has gone to crap..

[Sybeck1]

The Vulcans left 6 years ago.

[Rebelbase]

““Sanctuary” has also vanished”

Oh no. Where will I get an Amanda Tapping fix?

[Truth29]

New Sanctuary episodes are running on SyFy at 10pm on Mondays.

[Colonel_Flagg]

SGU ended suckily. I hated that ending.

It wasn't Stargate, so the ending didn't bother me at all.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Oh no. Where will I get an Amanda Tapping fix?

DVDs, but you gotta get in line behind me. :)

[GonzoGOP]

SyFy (SciFi) gambled on a steady sizable audience. The hard truth is that the majority of scifi is junk or, at best, watchable once.

That doesn't seem to jive with the success in syndication of Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, Enterprise), Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Stargate (SG1, Atlantis). And lets not even talk about Firefly that failed dismally on network but became a cult classic on DVD. Eureka also did very well, but they kept moving the schedule around until they killed it.

I think the problem is that they went cheap and started running wrestling and reality TV because they were cheap to produce. You complain that sci-fi is watchable once (despite the fact that people are still watching 1969 Star Treks episodes) but they replaced it with wrestling. They also lost two big shows to BBC America. BBC is running the new episodes of Dr. Who and they also picked up the Star Trek reruns.

If they had to do reality TV bring back Battlebots. At least it would be Sci-Fi related reality tv. The problem is that the people running Sci-fi aren't sci-fi fans. They keep trying to go with the reality TV because that is what is "IN" now. Except that their audience (lets face it nerds with disposable income) aren't part of the in crowd. If you want to know what nerds will pay for head to your local comic fest or Star Trek convention. There is money changing hands, and there is an audience. But they aren't going to respond to the same Glee in Space, or another remake of Gilligan's Starship (ST Voyager, SGU)

[jalisco555]

I believe this marks the first time since ST:TNG premiered in 1987 that there will be no “spaceships in space” type of show on television. I wonder if that genre will go the way of Westerns.