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Farscape Frelling Cancelled
Mukaikubo writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has decided to cancel their second largest show, Farscape. Because networks respond better to phone calls and snail-mail letters than a mass e-mail campaign and there is contact info on a fan-run Message Board. Time is of the essence, as the Network wants to tear down props at the end of next week. Help save one of the best science fiction shows on TV today!" Other articles can be found here and the chat log is online too.
BTW: here is a hot photo of that one blue chick from 'scape.
Bring back LEXX. Now that's quality programming!
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: *SciFi Channel is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered dork community when Nielsen ratings confirmed that SciFi Channel market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all viewers. Coming on the heels of a recent Nielsen survey which plainly states that SciFi Channel has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SciFi Channel is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Slashdot poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SciFi Channel's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SciFi Channel faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SciFi Channel because SciFi Channel is dying. Things are looking very bad for SciFi Channel. As many of us are already aware, SciFi Channel continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Farscape is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core audience. The sudden and unpleasant departures of hardcore fans only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Farscape is cancelled.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
People who watch SciFi Channel: 3
People who watch Cartoon Network or Spice Channel: 3,000,000,000
All major surveys show that SciFi Channel has steadily declined in market share. SciFi Channel is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SciFi Channel is to survive at all it will be among internet video pirates. SciFi Channel continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SciFi Channel is dead.
I'm sorry for those people that enjoy Farscape, but I could never get into it.
I could never get into it. It just seemed like Days of Our Lives in spaceships. It had that same dark, dreary lighting and slow pace that is so typical of soap operas. Even the character summaries from the show's web page sound like a soap opera:
Chiana's happiest when she has the opportunity to show off her scoundrel skills; she's a thief, a liar, a seductress and a drama queen.
I'll take Enterprise any day. The story line is inspirational. The recurring characters are admirable. The production values are top-notch. The special effects are beyond reproach. And each episode stands on its own and does not require that you watch the show serially from the pilot up to the current episode to understand what is going on -- though, taken together, it tells a larger story.