Farscape Cancelled!!

[RatPunk]

Basically, this is the result of an antiquated TV rating system called the Nielsen Rating. They simply pick a handful of TV viewers to represent 10,000(?) TV audience and whatever they say, the TV execs will based their decision on that.

At one time the Nielsons used to be something to the effect of 2000 households (not viewers) determing the viewing habits of 200,000,000+ US Citizens.

That sounds fair, doesn't it?

 

[bertman4]

Which is why you need to start writing to other networks. Write to UPN, Showtime, and TNT. I'm drafting a letter to send out, hopefully tomorrow.

Bertman

 

[RatPunk]

While UPN and Showtime have both shown themselves to be Sci-Fi friendly, I'd urge staying away from TNT.

Although they saved B5 for it's final year, they killed off Crusade with their meddling and recently canned Witchblade (which I admittedly never watched).

Of course, that's just my $.02...

 

[CaptainCalico]

Does anyone have the transcript of that CNN interview?

Look here

 

[evil_rmf]

At one time the Nielsons used to be something to the effect of 2000 households (not viewers) determing the viewing habits of 200,000,000+ US Citizens.

That sounds fair, doesn't it?

Yep, and our popular elections operate about the same way....

So, where is that Rat Fortress, anyway?

 

[buzzard]

I must say while I will be sad to see Farscape get canceled... After the way this season was going I'm not suprised. This season was begining to look really bad. Oh well such is life.

I have to agree. I used to love Farscape, but this season has been SO BAD, that I simply couldn't sit through any of the episodes. The ones I did struggle through hurt. What happened to the writers? Lobotomies? Insanity? Drug addiction?

Personally I will miss the early episodes, but this season made the series deserve to die.

buzzard

 

[RatPunk]

So, where is that Rat Fortress, anyway?

Well, I can neither confirm nor deny rumors that The Fortress might be located in, around, above, or under the bustling metropolis of Lebanon...

 

[Whodat]

There was another article on the CNN website today. Sci-Fi isn’t making any comments regarding either the letter-writing, or email campaigns.

Are they playing it cool, or blowing the fans off?

 

[Bamphalas]

Global Rally

"A 5th of Farscape" global rally will be held on October 5th. There will be simultaneous rallies occuring throughout the US and internationally. If you are interested in participating head on over to: http://www.savefarscapecentral.com/cgi-bin/rally.cgi?action=display

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Bamphalas
Orlando Rally Coordinator
orlandorally@underhive.com

 

[Umbran]

David Kemper just had another chat over on SciFi's server. In essence, he told us that as of this time, there still will be no more episodes of Farscape.

He suggested that a major way to show the network bigwigs that they were very wrong would be to watch the last 11 episodes (coming in January) in droves.

*shrug*. Considering that the show was cancelled, effectively, due to the fact that six Neilsen peole stopped watching, I personally don't see how the network people would even notice.