And even if they were, they'd be running into the problem that the Star Wars live action has run into. It just costs too much to make a TV sci-fi space show. That genre seems to belong to movies nowadays. Anything on TV might seem too cheap by comparison.
Really? How many space movies have we had in the past year? There's STID. There's
Ender's Game. There's
Prometheus, which was far from successful. There's
Riddick, which didn't do much better. There's
Elysium, which was set mostly on Earth. There's
Gravity, which was a different kind of space movie. There's
Europa Report, which was very low-budget. Maybe you could make a case for
Man of Steel being marginally a space movie because it spent so much time on Krypton in the first act, but that's a reach.
So yeah, there have been some, but the majority of SF movies lately have been set on and around Earth, even films involving aliens (
The Host, The World's End, Pacific Rim) or post-apocalyptic futures (
Oblivion, Elysium, After Earth). So I'm not sure I'd say that movies "own" the genre, given how little they've embraced it. And
Europa Report proves it doesn't require a big budget to do a compelling space story.
