*glares at Skiffy*

Aug 09, 2011 09:51

From EW'Eureka' canceled, sixth season plans dropped ( Read more... )

tv: warehouse 13, tv: eureka, scifi channel

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bizarra August 9 2011, 13:56:22 UTC
Wow... sounds like the same crap they pulled with Farscape. Kill it at the height of it's popularity AFTER they had ordered the fifth season. (They'd picked it up for fourth and fifth at the same time.. did the fourth and didn't renew the option for the fifth. cause they're assholes.

GGrrrr!! Hate networks.

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gatechic August 9 2011, 14:23:09 UTC
This really is a bummer. :(

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bizarra August 9 2011, 14:49:12 UTC
It is. I'm sorry to hear it. :(

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gatechic August 9 2011, 15:14:24 UTC
I haven't told Mini-Me yet and I know she'll be upset.

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klcthebookworm August 9 2011, 14:06:37 UTC
My brain went off to la-la-land and I forgot to turn on the TV last night. So I saw nothing.

There's a fine line between leaving a show on the air too long and taking it off too soon. Why does the fast majority of science fiction television always falls on the off too soon side?

Aside from all that, Happy Birthday!

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gatechic August 9 2011, 14:17:00 UTC
Oh, sorry for putting some spoilers right out there in the open. I was fuming when I read the Eureka board and didn't think about it.

I know that the six-episode season was going to be it, but they can that idea. According to some tweets from cast members, they're pretty upset about Skiffy canceling the last six episodes.

This show is being canceled far too soon. It still has a couple of more years left, IMHO. The addition of Felicia Day to the cast and seeing more of Wil Wheaton are working out great.

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klcthebookworm August 9 2011, 14:54:39 UTC
The spoilers weren't that bad. I'll just have to remind myself to watch the episodes online before next week. Maybe on Friday when I go catch up with the Stephen King References for Haven.

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erinm_4600 August 9 2011, 14:22:42 UTC
They're never going to learn, are they?

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gatechic August 9 2011, 14:25:49 UTC
No, they will never learn. *grumbles*

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bizarra August 9 2011, 14:50:10 UTC
Neither will AMC... look at the cra they're pulling with mad men. Networks who can't understand the concept of original programming should not run in. Period.

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klcthebookworm August 9 2011, 18:33:55 UTC
Shit. They didn't even tell the cast and crew BEFORE issuing the news. Wil Wheaton's Saying Goodbye to Eureka.

Granted I compare everything to how Fox's treatment of Alien Nation that gave me an irrational fear of two-parters, but that is just shitty way to treat a franchise even by that standard. Seriously, not even a phone call before hand? I'll enjoy Warehouse 13 while it lasts but if it gets a season four I'll be shocked.

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gatechic August 9 2011, 18:57:08 UTC
Reading that makes me even angrier at Skiffy. Skiffy shows no loyalty to the great shows they have. Ratings were good, so I wonder why the decision was made to cancel the show in the first place. But to promise six episodes to wrap everything up and then drop it? Not a way to treat a franchise that helped keep Skiffy floating.

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klcthebookworm August 9 2011, 19:16:25 UTC
Dear Skiffy Channel,

We would like a management reboot.

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moony_blues August 10 2011, 00:31:18 UTC
Ok, now I really am canceling my cable tv. Eureka is the only reason I still have it. When there is no more Eureka, there will be no more cable in my house.

This one makes me mad enough to spit. :(

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gatechic August 14 2011, 14:06:42 UTC
I really don't understand why they wanted to cancel it in the first place. This did not make my day. :(

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moony_blues August 14 2011, 15:10:16 UTC
I know what you mean. It's not like it's one of their most popular shows, evar.

Seriously though, this is why I don't really get into tv shows. >:(

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gatechic August 14 2011, 15:55:08 UTC
Lately, networks don't really care about quality, they want cheap, mindless, reality shows that bring in viewers. :|

This is one of the reasons why I'm glad Skiffy didn't go ahead with making a Tin Man series, they would have ruined it.

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