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Farscape to Return? Is Sci-Fi Channel Redeemed?

Posted by chrisd on from the john-edwards-is-a-big dept.

Cyno01 writes "I was just watching Firefly and switching to Taken during commercials (i'm a thief i know), and I caught a commercial for Sci-Fi 2003. It looks like there's going to be a few new actual sci-fi shows, and some not. Tremors: The Series, Children of Dune and another talkshow-esq looking thing called The Dream Team with Annabelle and Michael. Also it looks like Stargate: SG1 and yes, Farscape, are still alive and kicking."

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  1. possibly by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why no link directly to the latest farscape news? Or perhaps the Cancellation FAQ and get some real facts!

    A novel concept for /. no doubt ;)

  2. Re:Farscape by Photon+Ghoul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly. Just because they are still promoting the final episodes of the series does not mean that it is now back in production. They are simply trying to squeeze what they can out of the rest of their investment by promoting the last of the season.

    *mumbles something about a Slashdot story based off of some guy's malinformed impression of a TV commercial he saw as he was swapping back and forth between two shows*

  3. You linked to Farscape Page - BUT DID NOT READ IT! by jackb_guppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    A small clip from the SCIFI-FAQ:

    Additionally, in past seasons, Farscape had built upon its lead-in program (i.e., had more viewers than the program preceding it - a standard industry indicator of a show's success). For example, during the summer of 2001, Farscape increased 44% in ratings and 51% in households over its lead-in, The Invisible Man. However, this past summer, Farscape lost 29% of its lead-in program in terms of ratings, and 27% in households.

    Based on this FarScape lost market share when SciFi cancelled I-Man. Two great campy shows work better than one.

    I guess I can not understand network programming.

    PS: When you go to the FarScape page... A pop-up about the cancelation appears. My guess it is still cancelled.

  4. Farscape by edo-01 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Well, we wrap work on the VFX for episode 422 this week, and once that's done we're archiving everything to DLT and going our seperate ways... as far as I know it's still over.

    I was at Animal Logic last week and asked our producer if she'd heard anything different from Andrew (one of the exec producers) - nada. It's all winding down - on Thursday we hit a local pub for the VFX wrap party then that's it :-(

    Anyway, at this point I'm rooting for Firefly ;-)