Farscape Cancelled!!

[Aaron L]

If sci-fi channel wants to shoot themselves in the phrelling foot, then I can stop watching it. The only reason I kept watching after Invisible Man was cancelled was Farscape. Now there is nothing on the channel worth watching. John Edwards? No thanks. And why the hell did they get Stargate SG-1 and then cancel Farscape? This is stupidity bordering on criminal.

 

[William Ronald]

This is ridiculous. This will make Babylon 5 reruns the only thing I watch on SciFi except for an occassional movie.

Farscape made money and had good ratings. Oh well, I guess they wanted a big product that is cheap to make. Lets have someone claiming to be a psychic on the air during all our prime time programs. Let us get the cheapest stuff we can make.

In The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov had a quote (unsure if he was the original source): "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

 

[Corinth]

Those responsible should be the guests of honor at a blanket party.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Re: Re: Re: Re: [OT] Farscape Cancelled!!

i wasn't doing anything constructive nor deconstructive. sometimes people just post their opinions.

as to ratings... if the show has good ratings and is selling advertising it must cost a lot to produce so they need even more money to make the profit margins their hoping for so even with the number of viewers it better to replace it with a cheaper to make but less viewed show.

of course... if the show is actually making money and they decide to stop it they are simply making a bad decision. Personally, i dont think many cable channels make decisions that are counter to their goal of making money.

i could be wrong.

joe b.

In the case of the Scifi Channel, they are moving away from space-oriented series. This was brought up when they passed on making Legends of the Rangers into a new Babylon 5 series. Cancelling Farscape seems to be a logical extension of that policy. Not that the very premise of the SciFo Channel moving away from space-oriented series is logical.

 

[argo]

Farscape is canceled eh? Am I the only one here who has learned not to take internet rumors at face value? I can't count how many times I've seen people in a panic because "the Simpsons has been cancled" or something. Anybody out there want to provide a link to an actual press release or something? Something credible an not just a "report" on somebody's fansite? Until then I think I will just put this out of my mind and go back to eagerly awaiting new eipsodes of the best show on TV.

Take it easy, you'll live longer

 

[Kitsune]

They're destroying the sets, folks, there is NO chance of another network picking it up if it gets killed. The stand must be made now if it's to succeed.

You can get contact information for letters here.

 

[Slacker]

Farscape is canceled eh? Am I the only one here who has learned not to take internet rumors at face value? I can't count how many times I've seen people in a panic because "the Simpsons has been cancled" or something. Anybody out there want to provide a link to an actual press release or something? Something credible an not just a "report" on somebody's fansite? Until then I think I will just put this out of my mind and go back to eagerly awaiting new eipsodes of the best show on TV.

Take it easy, you'll live longer

You did take a look at the link provided in the first post, didn't you?

 

[Acmite]

Farscape is canceled eh? Am I the only one here who has learned not to take internet rumors at face value? I can't count how many times I've seen people in a panic because "the Simpsons has been cancled" or something. Anybody out there want to provide a link to an actual press release or something? Something credible an not just a "report" on somebody's fansite? Until then I think I will just put this out of my mind and go back to eagerly awaiting new eipsodes of the best show on TV.

Take it easy, you'll live longer

Sure, no prob. How about the log from the Official Chat where the Executive Producer and the Star of the show were the ones to announce the cancellation? Is that good enough?

Oh, look.....all the details are linked to in the first post!

I don't mind a little cynicism, or doubt...but please read the messages in the thread before you reply.

Oh, and you can check Anthony Simcoe's webpage (he plays D'Argo) for additional confirmation if you want.

Here's a link to the official message boards: here

This is an additional link to a full transcript of the chat: here

You know, you could just as easily have checked for this yourself instaed of assuming we were all rumourmongers.....

 

[TBoarder]

Farscape is canceled eh? Am I the only one here who has learned not to take internet rumors at face value? I can't count how many times I've seen people in a panic because "the Simpsons has been cancled" or something. Anybody out there want to provide a link to an actual press release or something? Something credible an not just a "report" on somebody's fansite? Until then I think I will just put this out of my mind and go back to eagerly awaiting new eipsodes of the best show on TV.

Sorry Argo, it's gone. It was confirmed in a chat with David Kemper and Ben Browder. I double checked a number of web sites to verify it (since I don't trust aintitcoolnews as far as I can throw it) and it is very much true.

I'm gonna try to do what I can, but apparently speed is of the utmost necessity to save Farscape, so snail mail won't cut it. They're scheduled to take chainsaws to Moya in 2 days. E-mail and online petitions are all I can do. I just hope enough people get together to let SciFi know how much of a mistake they're making with this.

 

[Kitsune]

Don't forget telegrams, they're hefty at about fifteen bucks, but they get there well within the necessary time frame.