5:00 PM - Star Trek: Enterprise
6:00 PM - Stargate: SG-1
7:00 PM - Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 PM - Invasion
9:00 PM - Moonlight
10:00 PM - Battlestar Galactica (the final 10 episodes)
So this ought to carry us into April
Now....I'll probably put Enterprise on in the background, because despite its flaws....it's a matter of that I really felt like the actors were trying and it was the writers' fault; unlike Voyager, Enterprise as a concept had such great potential. But seriously I'm not going home just to watch it as "event viewing"; same goes for TNG.
As for Stargate....well I openly think Atlantis was a failure, did not live up to expectations, and forever lived in SG-1's shadow (though as soon as SG-1 ended, SGA season 4 writing got better, and unfortunately, the writing in the 5th and final season was the best.....so maybe it was best to end when the show was actually doing fairly well, before it lost all redeeming values....can you say Voyager seasons 5 through 7?!)
So they're not rerunning SGA at all, but then again, my advice would have been "rerun SG-1" so we can see the good early seasons 1-5 from showtime. Then again....they've been rerunning those so heavily for the past 5-6 years that I've simply seen them all.
Moving along to primetime:
Invasion and Moonlight reruns? Well I didn't like Invasion (but I'm sorry that it had the misfortune of being "that hurricane show"...right after Katrina)
and as for Moonlight, well I guess those cult-fans of the show will be happy and see this as a chance to possibly "do well in reruns on cable" and justify a second season. Who knows, maybe it will be a cult hit. I wish them well, but frankly, I just like other vampire shows better. On the one hand, vampires are popular, but on the other hand, that makes it a cluttered market.
Either way I'm personally not watching either one, and further, they're both just reruns.
So we get BSG: the final 10 episodes.
Then what?
SGA is over.....****When is Stargate: 90210 supposed to start up? summer?
And of course they're making "Caprica" but frankly, I don't think it will work with RDM leaving; it might make a good TV movie, but I lament that it went to series. Bleeding it dry.
So the original "we actually have original programming" era of the late 90's with Farscape is long dead, as is when SG-1 was "new".
For a while now, we've been in the "Stargate (Atlantis)/Battlestar" era
now both are over. SGA and BSG did run fairly simultaneously for a while (ahhh the good old days of BSG season 2....SG-1 and SGA weren't great but were a good "opening act" for the GREAT second season of BSG, and it was a whole evening experienc.e..then they moved everything around with BSG on Sunday to try to grab ratings even though that late in a series run that only hurts ratings by moving it...etc......
So an entire "era" of Scifi Channel that effectively began for me in "early 2005" and continued until "early 2009" is coming to an end. What a four years its been: already burned from the cancelation of Farscape, now, on a "fool me twice, shame on you" basis after the lamentable BSG season 3 (due to network influence)........I now don't even trust Scifi Channel as far as I can throw them. Not because they cancel shows; I can understand the need for a leaner bottom line. but they're morons that make mistakes that hurt their own shows.
Indeed, RDM said that they're effectively making BSG *at a LOSS*, because it increases the prestige of their channel as "actually making serious TV"
now what are they?
"When BSG's gone, it's all over"
and what next? not-so-hot RDM-less BSG prequel, and fuzzy-copy-of-a-copy Stargate Universe?
I can't wait for Scifi Channel to go the way of UPN.
(sigh) I get most of my "science fiction" watching Cartoon Network's Adult Swim these days (granted they're in a rough patch too, but they bounce back)
Heroes has been bad for two seasons (maybe Fuller's return can fix things), Jericho is gone, Lost...is not bad but is wrapping up and will also be on break this summer. Terminator SCC is on the brink.
what's left?
What are they going to do? Get so crazy and desperate as to give Brannon Braga another scifi TV show? Ha! I laugh: Ha! That will be the day.
EDIT: Dollhouse. (sigh) while not a rabid Whedonite that swallows everything he throws out, he writes shows that are at least decent. Sadly, all the buzz has it that Fox wants to kill the series. At least its paired with Terminator SCC, which (after the loss of Pushing Daisies) is the only good surviving show from 2007-2008
Oh, and Fringe. Curious all of the Fox shows.
6:00 PM - Stargate: SG-1
7:00 PM - Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 PM - Invasion
9:00 PM - Moonlight
10:00 PM - Battlestar Galactica (the final 10 episodes)
So this ought to carry us into April
Now....I'll probably put Enterprise on in the background, because despite its flaws....it's a matter of that I really felt like the actors were trying and it was the writers' fault; unlike Voyager, Enterprise as a concept had such great potential. But seriously I'm not going home just to watch it as "event viewing"; same goes for TNG.
As for Stargate....well I openly think Atlantis was a failure, did not live up to expectations, and forever lived in SG-1's shadow (though as soon as SG-1 ended, SGA season 4 writing got better, and unfortunately, the writing in the 5th and final season was the best.....so maybe it was best to end when the show was actually doing fairly well, before it lost all redeeming values....can you say Voyager seasons 5 through 7?!)
So they're not rerunning SGA at all, but then again, my advice would have been "rerun SG-1" so we can see the good early seasons 1-5 from showtime. Then again....they've been rerunning those so heavily for the past 5-6 years that I've simply seen them all.
Moving along to primetime:
Invasion and Moonlight reruns? Well I didn't like Invasion (but I'm sorry that it had the misfortune of being "that hurricane show"...right after Katrina)
and as for Moonlight, well I guess those cult-fans of the show will be happy and see this as a chance to possibly "do well in reruns on cable" and justify a second season. Who knows, maybe it will be a cult hit. I wish them well, but frankly, I just like other vampire shows better. On the one hand, vampires are popular, but on the other hand, that makes it a cluttered market.
Either way I'm personally not watching either one, and further, they're both just reruns.
So we get BSG: the final 10 episodes.
Then what?
SGA is over.....****When is Stargate: 90210 supposed to start up? summer?
And of course they're making "Caprica" but frankly, I don't think it will work with RDM leaving; it might make a good TV movie, but I lament that it went to series. Bleeding it dry.
So the original "we actually have original programming" era of the late 90's with Farscape is long dead, as is when SG-1 was "new".
For a while now, we've been in the "Stargate (Atlantis)/Battlestar" era
now both are over. SGA and BSG did run fairly simultaneously for a while (ahhh the good old days of BSG season 2....SG-1 and SGA weren't great but were a good "opening act" for the GREAT second season of BSG, and it was a whole evening experienc.e..then they moved everything around with BSG on Sunday to try to grab ratings even though that late in a series run that only hurts ratings by moving it...etc......
So an entire "era" of Scifi Channel that effectively began for me in "early 2005" and continued until "early 2009" is coming to an end. What a four years its been: already burned from the cancelation of Farscape, now, on a "fool me twice, shame on you" basis after the lamentable BSG season 3 (due to network influence)........I now don't even trust Scifi Channel as far as I can throw them. Not because they cancel shows; I can understand the need for a leaner bottom line. but they're morons that make mistakes that hurt their own shows.
Indeed, RDM said that they're effectively making BSG *at a LOSS*, because it increases the prestige of their channel as "actually making serious TV"
now what are they?
"When BSG's gone, it's all over"
and what next? not-so-hot RDM-less BSG prequel, and fuzzy-copy-of-a-copy Stargate Universe?
I can't wait for Scifi Channel to go the way of UPN.
(sigh) I get most of my "science fiction" watching Cartoon Network's Adult Swim these days (granted they're in a rough patch too, but they bounce back)
Heroes has been bad for two seasons (maybe Fuller's return can fix things), Jericho is gone, Lost...is not bad but is wrapping up and will also be on break this summer. Terminator SCC is on the brink.
what's left?
What are they going to do? Get so crazy and desperate as to give Brannon Braga another scifi TV show? Ha! I laugh: Ha! That will be the day.
EDIT: Dollhouse. (sigh) while not a rabid Whedonite that swallows everything he throws out, he writes shows that are at least decent. Sadly, all the buzz has it that Fox wants to kill the series. At least its paired with Terminator SCC, which (after the loss of Pushing Daisies) is the only good surviving show from 2007-2008
Oh, and Fringe. Curious all of the Fox shows.
