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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1332655" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>Done went the Neilsen's route but your statement shows what I am talking about. Calling your most dedicated audience "some fanatics" isn't really a good idea there, especially when you do it in interviews for national publications, how many times can you alienate a few hundred thousand fanatics here or there before it bites you in the ass? Your calling the people who actually like your programming unimportant fanatics it's like a politician telling you he doesn't give a rats ass about your unimportant vote, it doesn't matter if you do or not you don't say it. Lets face it the general National audience doesn't care about SciFi anyway, if it disappeared they wouldn't notice, it's niche programming channel (that's what happens when you title it SciFi or Cartoon Network or Comedy Central, etc....) and the niche they are focused on is people who like Science Fiction, who they are labeling as unimportant fanatics in large groups due to the fact that they actually had the nerve to like one of the channels shows. For years Farscape was their prime show, 3 months before they cancelled it they were talking about how important it was to them and how it was the channels flagship show, now all the people unhappy they cancelled it are unimportant fanatics? If NBC called everybody who was upset they were taking Fraiser off the air "unimportant fanatics who complain about everything" they would look like imbecils, why work so hard to make a show popular then tell the people it worked on they don't matter? Look whatever you think Sci Fi fans are the majority of their viewers, how many groups of several hundred thousand can they insult to their face before it hurts them? It's not like they get audiences of 10 million on a regualr basis, it's nore like one or 2 million, Around 200,000 people signed the Galactica petition for example, no telling how many did the same for Farscape, many of these people haven't written them off all the way but they keep chipping away at them, who's going to be watching after Stargate goes away? Heck what else do they have going for them? Do you think everybody who watched the Galactica miniseries will watch the tv show? I don't care how small the group they need every viewer they can get, every channel needs every viewer they can get, most channels fight for viewers Sci Fi is daring you not to watch and calling you a fanatic. I don't think most people were as mad about them cancelling Farscape as they were about how they went about doing it, that's a PR problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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