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UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise'
Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that 'Enterprise' has been renewed for a fourth season. UPN will make the official announcement on Thursday, but production executives already told the SaveEnterprise.com fan campaign the show will be back, and the show's actors have been ordered back to work. The only snag? It looks like 'Enterprise' might be moved to Fridays next year, and Firefly fans can tell you what a great place that is..."
Fridays are definitely a death slot on the UPN network. Many UPN affiliates, even some the network owns, have Friday-heavy packages to air games from the local MLB team. Stations affected include...
Boston's WSBK "UPN 38" which airs "Friday Night Baseball" Red Sox Games nearly every Friday night in the season.
Connecticut's WCTX "UPN 8" is part of the Mets broadcast network.
Seattle's KSTW "UPN 11" is the flagship of the Mariners broadcast network.
In short, it's hard to get anything to work on UPN Fridays during the start of the TV station because about a quarter of the network just plain falls apart on any given Friday night due to baseball coverage when its in season.
UPN in part suffers from being related to CBS in the company food chain. All truely good shows go to CBS, UPN has to eat from the leftovers.
The original Star Trek series ratings fell when it was moved from Thursday night to Friday night the second year. It lost much of the teenage male crowd.
Since both Andromeda & Mutant X have been cancelled, Enterprise can hire those excellent writers to improve the show. Perfect. (I kid! :)
Oh, plus Enterprise should hire more babes - the babes of those two shows (especially Lexa Doig, the hacker 'Cowgirl' herself!) would certainly improve ratings.
When the 'new Trek' concept was being worked on, it was apparently down to two concepts - the 'pre-Federation' concept (which we got), and a more military-themed one about a Starfleet strike force of some type, with lots of fighting. Let me tell ya - Enterprise got a lot better right after they added more fighting (and a military team aboard Enterprise, which they've totally wasted so far). It seems obvious that they chose the wrong concept.
Though I do like what they've been doing with T'Pol, but they've basically eliminated Hoshi and others this season, which is too bad. I certainly like this collection of characters more than those of any of the other Treks, as a whole. DS9 had a _really_ annoying cast of characters. (Okay, I loved Ezri just too damned much!)
>the theme song is the best theme song ever written for any series
;-)
I agree it is good, but it wasn't written for the series.
It was on the Patch Adams soundtrack in 1998. (They re-recorded it for Enterprise and I like the re-recording better than the Rod Stewart version).
The only snag? It looks like 'Enterprise' might be moved to Fridays next year, and Firefly fans can tell you what a great place that is..."
Doesn't every self-respecting 'Enterprise' fan just TIVO it anyway?
And Kirk's Dead son was the drug addict in "Symbiosis" and Dr. Polaski was one of 3 times she was on The Original Enterprise....oh wait, actors some times plany different parts!?!??!
Actually, it seems to have been saved (although they haven't released who did it or how yet)
:)
Taken from www.andromedatv.com (The official site)
Kevin Sorbo Excited About
Andromeda's Fifth Season
Kevin Sorbo expressed his enthusiasm for the fifth season of Gene Roddenbery's Andromeda Wednesday, saying that he is looking forward to working once again with the program's tremendously talented cast, and fleshing out new adventures as Capt. Dylan Hunt.
"I think the show is going in a great direction, and that the fans will find it interesting to see how Dylan handles the next round of challenges that come his way. It's great to be back with a cast that's so professional and fun to work with."
Tribune Entertainment Vice President of Programming Bill Hamm says it will be a season that no sci-fi fan should miss.
"It's going to be a thrilling and exciting new adventure -- one that I'm sure will keep fans of Dylan and the crew glued to the screen."
Be sure to catch Season Five of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, every Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel at 8:00pm starting Sept. 24. Fans can also catch year five of the Andromeda's adventures in syndication beginning the week of Sept. 27 -- check local listings.
and from the (soon to be closed) official forums
Sorbonut broke the news first, but Ashley Edward Miller over at Ex Isle confirmed it: S5 starts production this month. And a bonus: he and Zack Stentz have sold a freelance script for S5 (possibly the fourth episode of the season). So if nothing else, we've got one goodie coming...
'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but leaves you feeling hollow inside'
Here's one for ya. Mark Lenard, aka Sarek, was the only person (IIRC) to play a Vulcan, a Romulan, *and* a Klingon in TOS. Now there's a guy who gets around. :)
I think it was lack of fan interest. The Tal..er Suliban did not impress anyone the way they had hoped, so they were pulled. The same thing happend with the Ferengi in ST:TNG. Roddenberry expected them to be the major adversaries of the entire series, but once these snarling barely-sentient Perot's saw the light of day no-one was impressed and they too were pretty much phased out until they were re-tooled for DS9.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.