The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Sci-Fi cancelled Farscape. Fuck them...after the show's done I'm boycotting that fucking network.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>FUCK! Why???? That show fucking owned! I was waiting for them to redo the entire series like they did last year.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>New eps are supposed to be aired in January of 2003. What are you talking about tort?</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>They are finishing out this season, but they aren't picking up season 5.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.farscapeweekly.com/cancelled.htm">Read it, weep, and then boycott the fuckers.</a>

This is what I'm talking about.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Garamond; text-align: left; '>That so pisses me off...and the fucks probably won't give up the earlier seasons so another network could take it...shit...it's the only good show on that network so boycotting it will be easy...</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't understand. Farscape is the only good original show that Sci-Fi has. It would be like HBO cancelling The Sopranos or Sex and the City.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>In other news, the creator of the Sopranos has said that the fifth season will be the final season.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The difference here is that's the creator ending the series, not HBO. No surprises, no unresolved cliffhangers, just the show ending as it should.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Any news on where it will go?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I consider that FUD. Chat logs? Give me a fucking break! Sci-Fi won't cancel Farscape.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I was looking on Slashdot for an entry like that, and they did have the same page. I normally don't believe everything Slashdot says either, but the posters seem to believe it, though. I didn't realize that they cancelled Invisible Man or Lexx, and it looks like they are turning to in a 24-hour horror channel. They are trying to vear away from "space shows", and that's just fucking stupid. "Space shows" make up the bulk of science fiction, and Alligator or Tales from the Crypt is far from sci-fi.

There was a good Slashdot post, that I'll cut and paste:

<tt>Look at what the networks have killed in the past 6 months (of note):

Dark Angel (FOX: news to me, but axed in May, had ok ratings!)
Futurama (FOX: weak ratings)

A couple days ago:

Witchblade (TNT: had strong ratings!)
Farscape (Sci-Fi: good ratings?)

(I'm sure I'm missing a biggie in all this. X-Files, Ally McBeal, Family Guy, etc. don't count...)

I'd understand the cancellations if the ratings were weak, and new programming was so much more promising but:

Derivative spinoffs: CSI:Miami, Law & Order:
Cop shows, cop shows, cops shows
doc shows, doc shows, doc shows

Another boring lawyer show from David E. Kelley
New soon-2-be-DOA show from the other lucky producer...

And the rest being f**king lame-assed "reality" shows I don't watch. How the f**k do loser shows like Big Brother2, Amazing Race2, and The Mole2 manage to get timeslots??? Yeah, they're cheap to produce, but they get sh*tty ratings.

I just don't get it. There a quite a few new shows coming out this fall, and most of them have LOSER stamped on them. Why kick out a promising show to stick in a sure loser?

The only thing new that looks like it has promise is Firefly. But I would have killed something other than Dark Angel... (Birds Of Prey looks promising too.)

Is it that our demographic (and thus, entertainment preferences) is too old and not desirable anymore? Do good shows cost too much? Do networks make more money on sh*t reality shows?
Am I missing a possible trend? (Economic recession putting content companies out of business? 9/11 makes people want mindless, "wholesome", patriotic, hero themed shows?)

Its a conspiracy, I tell you! And the handwriting is on the wall. Get ready to say goodbye to Buffy, Stargate SG1 (a Sci-Fi channel property), Angel, Smallville, Enterprise(?), South Park, Son of the Beach,

I can't say its all bad. I watch way too much TV. I'd like to feel confident that there will be something watchable in a couple of years, but it doesn't look good (for me, for us?)...</tt></div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Unfortunately, it's those run-of-the-mill cop shows like CSI:Miami that get the 10+ million viewer ratings. Even Star Trek, as popular as it is, pulls in only 5 mil or so, and it's a fairly expensive produciton. Genre shows are just too costly and appeal to only a small portion of the general public</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I have a feeling that TV will be obsolete in ten years or so. These are signs of a complete collapse of the TV networks. Why watch TV when you can play VGs and surf the web?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Come on, one show gets cancelled and tv is doomed?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Will to live, falling...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Look at the statistics, Kupek! I mean, it's not every day that a show gets cancelled, especially a heavyweight like Farscape which has pretty much dominated the ratings across the board - cable and network!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Futurama, Dark Angel, Lexx, Witchblade, Invisible Man, Farscape...Stargate SG1 almost got nixxed. TV networks used to give shows their 13 episodes, but even that doesn't happen any more sometimes. If a show isn't pulling billions of viewers, it gets pulled, as if they can suddenly get Survivor-type ratings on every show they create. It's damned hard to find a good show that lasts for more than a year. Where's Family Guy? Has Invader Zim been canned? Why is Upright Citizen's Brigade cancelled and Strangers with Candy IS STILL ON THE AIR!? Or that fucking Glick show! (At least CBS had the sense to cancel The Chevy Chase Show as fast as they could.) The Dana Carvey Show only lasted 5 episodes! The Clerks cartoon was only 3!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Dark Angle sucked, SG1 sucked, and what I saw of Witchblade was boring. Shows get cancelled all the time. It indicates nothing.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Smurfs and Gilligan's Island was cancelled and yet the world lived on.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I don't see how that demonstrates a dying industry. I'd say it's just the opposite. The competition is such that if a show isn't a big contender then it's not pulling its weight.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>No, they are desperate now. Media is changing, and TV isn't big any more. Like when the TV came out, and radio started to die.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Radio is dead, huh? I wonder how Howard Stern and Loveline got so popular then.</div>