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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."
That's what I'd like to know. Maybe if Serenity does well in the theaters?
I think it's about time networks start to realize they need to have a 3-season investment, at least, in order to establish a larger viewership. All these reality TV shows score big on their first season and then never add up once the hype is gone.
Also, changing the time every week and having them be interrupted by the 'MJ verdict' doesn't do much for people trying to set up a schedule around the shows. Ya, people have Tivo.. but then again, the networks aren't targeting those people anyway.
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"Fans of the cult-hit series Firefly will be pleased to learn that the show has been picked up by the Sci Fi Channel."
Correction: were pleased to learn... over a month ago.
Looks like they're just airing the original episodes in-order to help promote the upcoming movie (not a bad thing, mind you). When I hear "picked up" in relation to a TV show, I usually associate it with "making new episodes".
I know there was something about and agreement between fox and Universal(was it?) about no more tv. Damn I got my hopes up for about 10 seconds when I read the headline, but no mention of new eps. Damn again.
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When I see "Picked up" I think "Own it and is developing new shows."
It's nice that they will be getting more FireFly awareness out there. But they're just popping in the dvds into a player and broadcasting it.
Not too impressive from where I'm sitting.
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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...
...at least not for a long while.
Universal produced the show, but as a condition of picking up a series, a network gains the exclusive first rights to air the series on television. The rights to Firefly are still held by Fox, and Fox has expressed no interest in transferring those rights back.
Universal retains all the other rights, which is why Serenity got made, but unless someone's willing to cough up a very large amount of dough, it's unlikely that Fox would let their first-run TV contract drop.
Please, let there be more episodes done. A friend of mine casually showed me the pilot movie (she bought the DVDs). Two days later, I had watched them all and craved more. I'm gonna echo everyone else's sentiment that I really wish that more of this would be on tv as opposed to whatever crap reality show is undergoing it's 15 seconds.
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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.
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I didn't know what it was, in fact, I posted a question about it when a Firefly article came up and I was modded -1 Offtopic. Not everybody can get cable television or can be up to date on bloody everything, just don't assume everybody is the same as you. We are a very diverse group of nerds.
Bonus, you get all the extras, like the gag reel, and the behind the scenes stuff.
Actually, the *full* gag reel is floating around on the 'Net. It's about 2x longer than what you saw on the DVD, and contains quite a bit of profanity and one bit (a play on the opening credits) that would have been hard-core copyright infringement had it gone on the commercial DVD.
It's quite amusing. You can find it floating around p2p land, and I'm sure there's a torrent out there.
Would you be interested in a well written show with good acting? That's what Firefly was, and I've heard the movie is the same. I'm not a fan of the show because it's Sci-Fi, but because it's good, and I doubt I'm the only person who feels that way.
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If people got that obsessed over Enterprise, they should this show.
I think a lot of the people who obsessed over Enterprise did so because of the words "Star Trek" before it.
You could make "Star Trek: Dog Turd" with a static shot of (literally) a pile of crap and you'd get people fighting cancellation, but the same folks would look at Firefly and go "wtf no technical manual? no technobabble? lame!"
After reading the overwhelmingly positive ejaculations about this series on Slashdot and a few other places, I thought I'd check it out. It was described as a 'space western' in one thread I read and that was the phrase that stuck in my mind.
When I heard the phrase 'space western', I imagined that it was a bit more metaphorical - like, it was the Space Rush days and everyone was getting out into space, it was rough and tumble, and all that jazz.
However, I was (somewhat unpleasantly) surprised to see that it was simply that - a western, set in space. That was pretty much it.
I didn't dig the main character; I thought he was bland and boring. I hated the swearing in Chinese; after watching Deadwood I find just about everything else is completely boring if its sanitised for a G rating. The sexual tension between the main character and the 'companion' is like, straight out of a highschool TV series, dude. The only common thread throughout the whole story was the doctor and his sister, which didn't progress enough to keep me interested. Token lesbian scene was a bit lame, too.
Special effects were nice and some of the scripts were vaguely entertaining; the character of Jane (Jayne?) was the only one that I really WANTED to keep seeing.
Anyway, I'm sure this comment won't see the light of day as it seems everyone else on Slashdot digs it, but that's my 2c.