Slashdot Mirror
UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise'
Tycoon Guy writes "It's official now: UPN has decided to cancel 'Enterprise.' The show's series finale, which may feature Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), will air on Friday the 13th of May. The show's fate was probably sealed when last Friday's episode reached only 2.5 million viewers - but even so, the people at EnterpriseFans.com are still trying to raise money for a fan campaign to save the show."
Oddly enough, I think that they'd be better off keeping Bakula, the ship, tossing the rest, and doing Enterprise again.
Maybe with a second try, it won't suck [since more recent shows were getting better]. The actual concept is good, but the implimentation is shoddy.
The first season of the new Battlestar Galactica was fantastic. However, the last episode broadcast in the UK (which has already aired the entire season) was promoted as the 'series finale' (as opposed to 'season finale'), and many folks on Sky One's message board seem to interpret this to mean the show won't be re-upped. I'm not sure how well the SciFi Channel showings are being received, but given that the last episode leaves you seriously wanting more (along with having a cliffhanger ending), I'm concerned that the show won't be continued.
Yep. As part of a special funding deal with Sky One, we in the UK have already seen the entire of season one of the new Galactica.
Actually, that is a show called Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda starring Kevin Sorbo and produced by Majel Roddenberry. But they had to remove the Trek part, but just substitute "Federation" every time someone says "Commonwealth" and you'll know what I mean.
... And so it comes to this.
Well, Sky One already aired the entire first season of Battlestar Galactica in the UK before the Sci Fi channel decided to pick it up and air it here (ie. in the US). So, I think he was pointing out that he has already seen the entire first season and, hence, can judge the show better than people who haven't.
Myself, I have to agree. I saw the last few episodes of Battlestar Galactica's first season. And I really hope they decide to pick it up for at least another season. Good acting, good and sometimes superb writing, decent sfx. Definitely a good show.
Or do they simply show them over the course of a couple months, and then show other stuff (or reruns) the other 10 months of the year?
That's pretty much it, programmes are generally run weekly, and once one programme has finished it's run another will fill it's slot. I think the UK may have more cheap filler and repeats in the schedules as well, but I haven't looked at US TV schedules in depth. It's mostly economics I think...
The main exception are soap operas of course, which run in fixed slots (barring live football etc.) all year round. The big soaps are now on four days a week, UK TV seems to be getting awful for people who don't like soaps, or cheap fillers about people buying houses, or selling stuff at auction (etc.). (Then again a while ago all the fillers were about home improvement and stuff...)
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about this but if your interested here is the address to send your "Please Don't Cancel the Show" Letters :
Mr. Leslie Moonves
Co-President, Co-Chief Operating Officer
Viacom International, Inc.
c/o CBS Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036-2112
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for the are subtle and quick to anger.
Of course it's going to be cancelled, Galactica on Sci-Fi and the rest of the Sci-Fi Friday is getting as good or better ratings than it is, and I believe that UPN has a wider distribution than Sci-Fi does. I've read that Galactica had a 2.5 rating last week, which is higher than the week before. It's weird seeing Galactica succeed and a Trek franchise fail, but Galactica is just That Damn Good. You Galactica haters can scoff now, but wait until the last few episodes, Galactica gets very good. On par with Babylon 5 at its prime, I'd say.
According to IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383588/
Sam and Al will both star in it, but that's all the info they have.
Hopefully it'll be good.