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Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly
An anonymous reader writes "Firefly, a science fiction series that was canceled midway through its first season on Fox, has found a new home on the Sci Fi Channel. Fans of the cult-hit series Firefly will be pleased to learn that the show has been picked up by the Sci Fi Channel--just two months before the release of Serenity, a Universal Pictures film based on the series. Looks like they'll be airing all the ones we've already seen, plus 3 that never got aired the first time around. A bonus - They'll be seen in the correct order."
whats next, updates on "where is the cast of cheers now?"
Ted Danson is in San Diego
Shelley Long is in Fort Wayne
Kirstie Alley is in Wichita
Nicholas Colasanto is in Providence (the place, not the show)
Rhea Perlman is in Brooklyn
John Ratzenberger is in Bridgeport
Oh fuck. That's where they were born. Screw it. You can look it up yourself to see where they are.
First news that the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is being released on DVD, now this. Next think you'll be telling me is that they're bringing back crystal pepsi. Oh damn, just thinking about that makes me feel tingly...
Too bad the FOX execs were a bunch of BUN tyen-shung duh ee-DWAY-RO the first time arround.
Give the show to a network that knows what it's doing and appreciate what it has got.
"You saved 1968." - Ms. Valerie Pringle to the crew of Apollo 8
This Sci-Fi must live somewhere warmer than Chicago. We won't be picking up any fireflies until later this month.
I guess I'll go read the article now....
Viv
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River is made out of chocolate!
Loophole: :D
A new feature film every week on Sci Fi!
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
I wasn't going to discuss his character, but if it's a lecture you want, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and helfire... one has lepers.
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
Whedon: We will rule over this time slot, and we will call it... "This Time Slot".
Fox: I think we should call it... your grave!"
Whedon: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Fox: Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh...now die!
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
Although actors such as Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, and Jewel Staite have signed on to the show, Whedon denies that the show has anything to do with his previous sci-fi drama, "Firefly." "They're two completely different insects!" Whedon said in a telephone interview. "They're both sci-fi shows, so there might be some similarities in that regard, but otherwise they're completely different. Promise!"
Sources have confirmed that Whedon will be singing the theme song for this show too, containing the lyrics "Can't never take away my blue clouds, y'hear?" Look for "Bumblebee" in Fall 2006 on the Sci-Fi channel.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
You say: "Those 3 hours I'll never get back."
:-)
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I wouldn't worry about the three hours if I were you
"generic non-descript cargo hold."
It had a cat-walk, too. That's all futurish. And in one episode they opened something that had dry-ice steam floating off of it.
"generic non-descript infirmary."
Hey, they had needles in there... and... and stuff!
"generic non-descript kitchen (with garage-sale furniture that has been bolted to the floor so that it doesn't float around in low-g settings"
Ahem! "Space bolts"!
"generic curtain-filled room for the space-hooker's quarters."
Oh, and I supposed you think you can just saunter down to Better Whores and Brothels and pick up a bolt of Companion Cloth! That stuff was so 400 years ahead of it's time!
"generic dashboard-looking cockpit with plastic dinosaurs scattered here and there."
Dinosaurs! Do you hear yourself? Dinosaurs! The things died out millions of years ago, and yet through the magic of television they were brought back to us, just to "decorate a set"! My gods, how wastefull is this Joss Whedon guy?!
Apollo banging Starbuck? You're sick. I'll admit that I haven't watched BSG in ~20 years, but I think I would have remembered that kind of funny business.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
NanoGator: The original Star Trek series, for example, wasn't all that popular. Years after it ended, the 'space race' happened, and suddenly there was interest again.
Bishop923: Actually The original series ran from 1966-1969, during the final 3 years of the "Space Race"
He wasn't talking about our space race, dude. It was the one on Vulcan.
I'd say there's a reasonable chance that we might have a revival of Star Trek proportions on our hands. :-)
*shudder*
You mean that all of the original episodes get wiped out in an inane time loop???
hawk
So, what, you found it so uninteresting that you watched the whole series?