SyFy cancels Eureka

[Guy Gardener]

Remember a couple years ago, with the immortal ginger and the underground complex, when Network kept rejecting their script for the final episode over and over again, and over again until they were still drafting the final episode getting chapters approved while they were filming?

That season was so awful that it made all the Baltar 1949 stuff super amazing.

Which they tidied into a little box after half time, and back to the silly formula that is so tiring.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Syfy reportedly wanted to make the six-episode wrap-up, but were overruled by the new upper managment. From Deadline Hollywood:

Syfy has settled on one extra episode of Eureka to wrap things up. That's final. I hear Syfy executives called the cast today to apologize for the conflicting decisions over the past week, which included a six-episode final-season order, followed by no-final-season announcement and then the additional episode pickup. Word is the six-episode order was overruled by the new post-merger management as the series is getting expensive after 5 seasons and has enough episodes in the can (19). I hear most affected are some crew members who turned down job offers last week when Eureka was picked up for 6 more episodes only to see that order rescinded.

 

[Frontier]

Death to SyFy channel.

 

[Technobuilder]

The show is called Eureka.

We send the network used bathwater.

I confess, it took me a few moments to get that . . . .

REMEMBER! - It's all about volume.

So send as much as we can.

 

[Greg Cox]

Death to SyFy channel.

Because they canceled a cult tv show after five full seasons?

That's two years longer than the orignal Star Trek ran, one year longer than either Farscape or BSG ran, and four years longer than most genre shows on most networks.

I'm going to miss Eureka, too, but I'm not quite sure what the outrage is here.

It's not like the show was murdered in its cradle . . . .

 

[Vendikarr]

Death to SyFy channel.

Because they canceled a cult tv show after five full seasons?

That's two years longer than the orignal Star Trek ran, one year longer than either Farscape or BSG ran, and four years longer than most genre shows on most networks.

I'm going to miss Eureka, too, but I'm not quite sure what the outrage is here.

It's not like the show was murdered in its cradle . . . .

I think people like shows to run long enough for the love to turn to hate, like the X-Files. Almost everyone I know dislikes how it ended, and believes it ran two to three seasons too long.

 

[Skywalker]

That's two years longer than the orignal Star Trek ran, one year longer than either Farscape or BSG ran, and four years longer than most genre shows on most networks.

All these years later, it still hurts.

 

[RJDiogenes]

It's true, the show has had a good run. Those six episodes were going to be the last ones, so, really, we're just getting five less than we would have. In the grand scheme, that's not a big deal, although it will probably compromise how the producers planned to wrap things up.

Mainly, I just want shows that I like to go on forever.

 

[JD]

Well, at least we've got the comics for Farscape. I wonder if anyone will do any kind of continuation for Eureka, it has had both novels and comics, so it's already been established in both formats.

 

[Silvercrest]

The show is called Eureka.

We send the network used bathwater.

Ah, yes, Archimedes.

As I recall, the Greek term "eureka" literally translates as "this bath is too hot!"

I love the American system of education.

 

[ATimson]

I'm going to miss Eureka, too, but I'm not quite sure what the outrage is here.

It's not like the show was murdered in its cradle . . . .

It wasn't murdered in the cradle, but they told the patient that he had 6 months to live and then slipped poison in his IV a night or two down the road.

 

[propita]

Eureka was given an episode to tie things up, so at least that. And we could see Fargo on Warehouse 13 once in a while. Kinda doubt it since Warehouse 13seems to be expanding their cast (Jinks), and having recurring characters and guest-star-arcs.

 

[barnaclelapse]

That's just a shame. It was a wonderful series, that deserved every single penny its budget got. The unfortunate in all this is how it apparently came down to money. There just wasn't a large enough audience to justify the cost of the series. That's always too bad, but it's especially so with something as funny, original, well-acted and well-written as "Eureka" was.

 

[Greg Cox]

Eureka was given an episode to tie things up, so at least that. And we could see Fargo on Warehouse 13 once in a while. Kinda doubt it since Warehouse 13seems to be expanding their cast (Jinks), and having recurring characters and guest-star-arcs.

FYI: Fargo is back on next week's episode.

 

[MacLeod]

Death to SyFy channel.

Because they canceled a cult tv show after five full seasons?

That's two years longer than the orignal Star Trek ran, one year longer than either Farscape or BSG ran, and four years longer than most genre shows on most networks.

I'm going to miss Eureka, too, but I'm not quite sure what the outrage is here.

It's not like the show was murdered in its cradle . . . .

Well BSG (not counting the mini-series ran for 5 years), true season 4 was split into season four and the final season, so you could say it had 5 seasons. As for comparrisons with ST it'll end up with a smilar amount of episodes.

as for genre shows 5 years is actually quite short, it might be a decent length for the Sci-Fi genre but overall it's not that long. But like you say few shows in the Sci-Fi/fantasy genre make it to the 2nd year. Let alone a fifth year. Few have made it beyond seven and even fewer beyond ten.

 

[Owain Taggart]

The show is called Eureka.

We send the network used bathwater.

I confess, it took me a few moments to get that . . . .

Heh, I'd send them lightbulbs!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd send them some bathwater with a baby in it.

 

[Chris3123]

I'd send them some bathwater with a baby in it.

You're not supposed to do that!

Wait, you're just not supposed to throw out the baby with the bathwater. You aren't throwing anything out, so I guess it's ok then.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Whew!

 

[CaptainJack]

Weird that I swear I just saw an add on Scy-Fy that was promoting the "New" season. Just maybe an hour or 2 ago.