The state of UK TV just amazes me and the different channels (excluding the BBC) are determined to maximize profits by filling their schedules with reality nonsense. Reality shows are cheap to produce, have no content, are filled the people doing certain jobs, social rejects and/or wannabes. It seems that unless a non-reality based TV show is an immediate massive hit and has huge ratings, it's cancelled.
I like Sci-Fi and always have ever since seeing "Things to Come" then "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on TV. So when I looked at the number of shows that have been dumped in the last couple of years, it's astounding. Angel was pulled but the finale sort of concluded the 5 year series and others that weren't so lucky were, to name but a few, Firefly, Brimstone, Heroes, Moonlight, Stargate Universe, Invasion, Surface, the Lone Gunmen, Jericho, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tru Calling, Bionic Woman, Odyssey 5, Space Above and Beyond, Threshold, 4400, Defying Gravity, etc, etc. I wish more companies showed some backbone, as Hallmark did with Farscape, and produced the filming of mini-series to give a conclusion to a series followed religiously by many fans. But realistically we know that everything seems to revolve around the fads and fancies of the citizens of the USA. So what can you expect from from a nation that had George Bush as President (he shouted "Amigo, Amigo at the ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and for the American readers, Amigo is Spanish not Italian), Vice-President Dan Quayle (who famously said, I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people) and finally Sarah Palin (who said following the attack on SOUTH Korea, But obviously we've gotta stand with our North Korean allies--we're bound to by treaties ...) as a major contender for high political office!!!
What hope is there when we have to rely on some morons in the USA to decide what's a good or bad TV series. I suppose the intelligent Americans are too frightened to say anything in case they're accused of being a "pinko commie ba**ards" for actually having a sensible opinion about something.
If something is crap then it's crap and it deserves to be pulled. But when Stargate Universe is pulled and replaced on Sky 1 in the UK by a reality show centred on a ludicrous, gay, extrovert employee of the Pineapple Dance Studio in London and a useless wannabe pop star who has about a much talent as a garden hedge, but isn't as useful, then what's this world coming to???!!!
I like Sci-Fi and always have ever since seeing "Things to Come" then "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on TV. So when I looked at the number of shows that have been dumped in the last couple of years, it's astounding. Angel was pulled but the finale sort of concluded the 5 year series and others that weren't so lucky were, to name but a few, Firefly, Brimstone, Heroes, Moonlight, Stargate Universe, Invasion, Surface, the Lone Gunmen, Jericho, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tru Calling, Bionic Woman, Odyssey 5, Space Above and Beyond, Threshold, 4400, Defying Gravity, etc, etc. I wish more companies showed some backbone, as Hallmark did with Farscape, and produced the filming of mini-series to give a conclusion to a series followed religiously by many fans. But realistically we know that everything seems to revolve around the fads and fancies of the citizens of the USA. So what can you expect from from a nation that had George Bush as President (he shouted "Amigo, Amigo at the ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and for the American readers, Amigo is Spanish not Italian), Vice-President Dan Quayle (who famously said, I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people) and finally Sarah Palin (who said following the attack on SOUTH Korea, But obviously we've gotta stand with our North Korean allies--we're bound to by treaties ...) as a major contender for high political office!!!
What hope is there when we have to rely on some morons in the USA to decide what's a good or bad TV series. I suppose the intelligent Americans are too frightened to say anything in case they're accused of being a "pinko commie ba**ards" for actually having a sensible opinion about something.
If something is crap then it's crap and it deserves to be pulled. But when Stargate Universe is pulled and replaced on Sky 1 in the UK by a reality show centred on a ludicrous, gay, extrovert employee of the Pineapple Dance Studio in London and a useless wannabe pop star who has about a much talent as a garden hedge, but isn't as useful, then what's this world coming to???!!!
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