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JD said:

If they didn't want to do a series, I can't image they'd do a theatrical film. A movie is going to take a lot more money, and need a much bigger audience than a TV series would. If they didn't want to take a chance on a series, there's probably very, very little chance of them doing a movie.

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oktay said:

If the cancellation really came down to a single executive's decision, canceling a project with real profit potential after it had already reached the stage of beginning casting, without providing any explanation, does not seem logical.

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BillJ said:

It was renewed in November of 1987 for season two. Roughly five weeks after “Encounter at Farpoint” premiered in the US.

TNG was a phenomenon here, right out of the gate and was never in danger of not being renewed.

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AntonyF said:

And Farscape was renewed for a fifth season and Dark Angel was to get a third season, albeit briefly.

But we've gone off track slightly as I never said about renewal just that it almost didn't make it. The writer's strike almost sank the show. It took the powers that be to have the patience to stick with it.

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bdub76 said:

Jensen Ackles talked about issues on Dark Angel not that long ago on Inside of You.

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AntonyF said:

But we've gone off track slightly as I never said about renewal just that it almost didn't make it

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BillJ said:

That was never the case. The show was a hit right out of the gate and never looked back.

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AntonyF said:

Interesting that you removed half of my paragraph. The part that was nothing to do with success.

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BillJ said:

Because the show was never in danger of not being produced.

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AntonyF said:

TNG was in danger of cancellation between seasons one and two. It was due to the writer's strikes not due to any perceived success or lack thereof, as I have explained.

Thank the heavens they stuck with it so we can be here talking about the show decades later.

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bdub76 said:

I remember a bunch of other shows getting canceled due to writer strikes. Highwayman comes to mind.

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bdub76 said:

Pretty sure it's an adaptation of the second book. They're pulling in stuff from the later books in earlier. It's basically the first book from Lestat's POV. I like the book much more than Interview. But I really like what they did with Interview. It's much better than the first book. I hope they split it into two seasons as well.

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Christopher said:

I don't think there's any way to do that. For us in the audience, this is just entertainment, but for many people in the industry, news about projects in development at the studios would constitute business news, something they might need to know about for their work, e.g. if they want to apply for a job on the production or if they want to know what their competitors are doing, or whatever. So that's probably a lot of what drives advance news about projects in development, and if something's reported to industry insiders, it's bound to get out to the general public too. I don't see any way to keep it secret from the public.

As I said, the burden is on us to read the news with healthy skepticism and not mistake development news for some kind of pinky-swear promise that can't be broken. That's like assuming a weather forecast or an election forecast can never be wrong.

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Christopher said:

The original lasted only one season and was cancelled due to its high cost and plummeting ratings. ABC then demanded that they make a cheaper sequel series to amortize the cost of the original show's FX, costumes, and props and add more episodes to the syndication package to help them recoup their losses later. That sequel series lasted less than half a season, a mere 10 episodes, because it went way over budget itself, and because nobody involved with it actually wanted to make it and it was therefore terrible.

Modern BSG fans have this myth that the original show had some huge fan following rivaling Star Trek, but it was a flop that got little attention in its afterlife. Media magazines like Starlog rarely covered it after it was gone, even though they routinely did articles about older shows and movies and interviews with their casts. Many of its episodes got syndicated as TV movies and got shown in weekday-afternoon time slots now and then, along with other short-lived shows like the live-action Spider-Man or The Gemini Man, but that wasn't exactly high-profile.

I think it was probably Richard Hatch's attempts to pitch a revival over the years that helped build interest in the project, but it took decades.

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Christopher said:

Actually, no: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/revisiting-farscape-the-peacekeeper-wars/

They knew they were cancelled before the finale aired, so they could've chosen to edit out the cliffhanger and end the series on a positive note, but they decided to leave in the cliffhanger regardless, and that decision, along with the fan campaign, was one of the factors that went into the later decision to make the miniseries.

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