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<blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1302306" data-attributes="member: 115">You know, I had a paragraph where I praised SFC for doing this, and then deleted it because I thought it was too much of an aside... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;SFC was doing good with that pairing. IMan pulled in a very strong female demographic compared to most of their shows, and Farscape of course had some serious numbers. Then they messed up by moving IMan to some god-awful night (Monday, I think) and showing crappy shows in it's place (Black Scorpion, anyone?). Not to mention the entirely political reasons IMan was canned.&nbsp;Another amen.&nbsp;IMan, for example, was canned because SFC (and supposedly Bonnie Hammer herself) forced a new character on the writers in the second season. A lot of people on set resented that, and I suspect they were more than willing to say so. Well, when the show started to decline, the writers blamed the new character forced on them, and that apparently rubbed someone the wrong way. To be fair, the writers should have been able to deal with that, but from what I understand it was quite an intrusion into the writing of the show. The writers eventually even managed to make her work (although note how she isn't in the final few eps of the season). But the damage was done.&nbsp;A similar story was rumored to have happened with Crusade, though JMS stood up to them.&nbsp;Notice the characters of Jool and Sikozu, who seem primarily designed to increase male viewship - though the Farscape writers made them work more, I think.&nbsp;Also, to further drive the nail in SFC's coffin - why is Farscape on Sunday through Thursday at midnight? It was one of their highest rated series for four years! And they put it on at a late hour before workdays? More proof that the SFC programming people just don't have any clue how to do their jobs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LightPhoenix, post: 1302306, member: 115"] You know, I had a paragraph where I praised SFC for doing this, and then deleted it because I thought it was too much of an aside... :) SFC [i]was[/i] doing good with that pairing. IMan pulled in a very strong female demographic compared to most of their shows, and Farscape of course had some serious numbers. Then they messed up by moving IMan to some god-awful night (Monday, I think) and showing crappy shows in it's place (Black Scorpion, anyone?). Not to mention the [i]entirely[/i] political reasons IMan was canned. Another amen. IMan, for example, was canned because SFC (and supposedly Bonnie Hammer herself) forced a new character on the writers in the second season. A [i]lot[/i] of people on set resented that, and I suspect they were more than willing to say so. Well, when the show started to decline, the writers blamed the new character forced on them, and that apparently rubbed someone the wrong way. To be fair, the writers [i]should[/i] have been able to deal with that, but from what I understand it was [i]quite[/i] an intrusion into the writing of the show. The writers eventually even managed to make her work (although note how she isn't in the final few eps of the season). But the damage was done. A similar story was rumored to have happened with Crusade, though JMS stood up to them. Notice the characters of Jool and Sikozu, who seem primarily designed to increase male viewship - though the Farscape writers made them work more, I think. Also, to further drive the nail in SFC's coffin - why is Farscape on Sunday through Thursday at midnight? It was one of their highest rated series for four years! And they put it on at a late hour before workdays? More proof that the SFC programming people just don't have any clue how to do their jobs. [/QUOTE]

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