Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)

[Deathstalker]

"I've never watched Firefly and don't plan to etheir. It looks stupied from the commercials and if its just a ripoff of Farscape, whats the point??? "

Have faith. Firefly will be anything but a ripoff with Joss Whedon at the helm. (The man who gave us Buffy, Angel and Aliens:Resurrection.) To compare I remember the beginning of B5 when all my friends called it a ripoff of DS9 and the Narn were just Klingon's in bad makeup. (that and Sinclair acted on the same level as Kirk )

On the original topic I never really got to know Farscape, always worked when it was on (think I caught one episode which I did like).

[dumbluck]

How do you know it's being cancelled? This is the first I've heard of it. Not that I follow it, either. I work during it's airtime, too. Which kinda sucks, because I've heard nothing but good things about the show...

[Owlman]

Farscape writer David Kemper mentioned the that FS was being cancled at a recent chat. The cast had a cancellation party on Saturday and will finish their season (and final) shoot Tuesday. It was not cancled because of Ratings, in fact it is the Scifi channels number 1 draw. My theory is (Take me seriously) that Fox paid USA Networks to cancel the show. Scifi recived the rerun rights to The X-Files, something they usually could not afford. Now Firefly can run on the same time slot that Farscape did. In stead of competing with Farscape, FF is kind of replacing it. The only reason FS would be taken off the air in real life is beacuse of its high production values. Scifi is apparently content to run reruns of the Dead Zone and SG1 and use the FS money to make more really crappy movies or mini-series. Maybe the next Dune series will actually have a desert and not have a painted wall as a back ground for the great desert.

PS. By the previews, FF is very much a Farscape rip off. A smart *** gun slinger, a tough chick, a big tough guy, a ****, a whiney chick out of her element, a priestess, and they are all on the run from an evil military on board a freighter. The commit crimes to stay alive. Yeah, that is the cast, and very basic plot of Farscape. But then I always though B5 was a cheezy DS9 rip off.

[geoschmo]

Conspiracy theories aside, it is entirely possible that the show is the number one rated show on scifi channel and still losing money because of the higher production costs that you mentioned. Since televsion networks are in business to make money, not because it makes them happy just to have people watching their show.

It may just be that even though the Ratings were good, they weren't good enough to turn a profit.

Geoschmo

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Magnum357:
Thats the probablem with Sifi shows now. If any show gets popular, other networks try to copy the idea and see if they can sell it.

This holds true with ALL shows these days.

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Firefly is this :
A show that takes place in the west where are cast looks like cowboys from the west that travel around the rest via a spaceship out in the west. This is billed as the Anti-Star Trek.

I can see Fox paying off USA to pull farscape. With the X-Files dead, anything in a competing time slot except Stargate and the Simpsons will get utterly destroyed.

I hate Fox.

Also, Sci-Fi channel is supposed to be producing a mini-series based off the games myst and riven.

[ZeroAdunn]

Yah, it is sad to see farscape go, I thought they had renewed it for another season. Geuss not. I can't see them wraping it up by the end of this season, I hope they end it good, not with a crappy cliffhanger. I would really like to see chriton get home, but realise his home is space now.

As for Firefly: It could be good. Don't judge things by the billing. I will wait to see it before I judge. I hope it is good.

Sci Fi is dying.... very sad. Very sad indeed.