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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 943024" data-attributes="member: 115">First off, I'm going to recommend again Stargate - it's worth the second try, IMO.Second, I'm definitely going to recommend Jeremiah, even though lots of folks don't get Showtime.  I'll agree that it's better than any of the B5 spinoffs, and Luke Perry and Malcolm Jamal-Warner are both incredible.  I can't gush enough about it.  turdy kurdy... heheAs for why there's been such a drought... the biggest reason in my mind is that fantasy/sci-fi shows are incredibly expensive to produce, relatively speaking.  You really need an instant hit like Farscape to be making money back on it.  Even then, how can you compare the profits of a show like Farscape to something like American Idol or Survivor - shows that are rediculously cheap to produce and draw in a lot more viewers.  It's a no-win situation for sci-fi.So you're not going to get the major networks to take a chance on shows like these, so you're left with the smaller networks.  Not all of them can afford to produce a show that's expensive, and since they get less viewers that's less revenue from advertisement.  Hence, less of a profit margin.In the case of the US, the Sci-Fi channel fell under poor management.  As evidenced by the abundance of cheaply produced shows now on the network.  As evidenced by the cancellation of one of their highest rated shows under ambiguous circumstance.  As evidenced by higher-ups saying that they didn't like sci-fi.Not that I'm bitter at all... <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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