Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)

[sachmo]

Originally posted by Growltigga:
Can you north americans give FireFly a bit of support cos' if it gets cancelled, us europeans wont get to see it.

A quick aside, was Farscape anything to do with Australia as a lot of the actors seemed to have antipodean accents?

I'll do my part, Tigga, but I'm afraid that may not be enough. At least I hope it stays on Friday and doesn't try to move to Sunday.

[ckotchey]

Originally posted by Growltigga:
A quick aside, was Farscape anything to do with Australia as a lot of the actors seemed to have antipodean accents?

I do believe it is filmed in Australia somewhere, which is probably why they have so many Aussie accents & such on the show.

[Lemmy]

did anyone post this before?
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SAVE_FARSCAPE/
a petition to save farscape.

[Atrocities]

Rumor has it that Farscape my be picked up by UPN or another syndicated network.

Ya right. Sci-Fi just does not have the cash flow needed to keep the series alive. At nearly 1,000,000 an episode Sci-Fi just can't keep producing it when it only gets half that in advertising sales. The rest is made up through re-run sales, and licensing scemes.

Why oh why they haven't made toys, books, PC & Consule games based upon the series one will never know.

I am not a big fan of the Sci-Fi channel because they are a poor cable network.

Farscape is a confirmed success, any other network would be lucky to pick up this franchise and run with it. Lets hope that happens.

[pathfinder]

Just FYI Atrocities: There IS a PC game based on Farscape. it just hit the shelves the Last couple of weeks (seen at Software, etc).

[Owlman]

The only problem about Farscape moving to a network how be the fact that the network would have to edit out alot of the violence, sex, drugs, and language that are a crucial part of Farscape. If the network gave Rockne O'bannon full creative control over it and didn't cut funding, than that would rock. Hopefully Scifi will come to their senses and keep their key show. For every crappy movie they make, they could make a season of FS. But if a network picks it up and dosen't screw with it, then F**k Scifi. Farscape powered by Smackdown!, I love it!

[ZeroAdunn]

You don't watch much network TV do ya? Sex Drugs and Violance is what it is all about....

Cable only throws a little rock and roll in the mix

[Perrin]

Hey with the new mandatory Ratings system you could theoretically have almost anything on TV. Look at South Park for example. It may mean that FS would have to be on later at night but thats why they made VCR's and TIVO.

[mac5732]

How about the original Flash Gordon Series way back when... it was quite popular back in the old days, before computers, graphic enhancements, etc.. (the good old days )

mac

[Growltigga]

Yeah, the original Flash Gordon was well swervy - I did particularily like the way someone had stuffed roman candles up the backsides of the rocket ships and then ran a magimix to get the sound effects