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cancelled scifi shows

posted 18 years ago by eman2136
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Anyone else notice this? I'm a pretty big scifi fan. Even though I don't watch Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica or similar shows. But I did watch: Night Stalker, John Doe, Dark Angel, Surface, Threshold, The X-Files. And I do watch: Ghost Whisperer, Eureka, Ghost Hunters, and reruns of Night Stalker and John Doe. I just bought the DVD but I still think the show should be on air; brand new episodes or at least the episodes they already made. I heard on one of these forums that they were going to air Threshold on Spike; I would take it on any channel: SciFi, TNT, or any other channel. I hate that they cancelled it, it was a good show and I thought it was worthy of greatness. It seems, since Scifi categorized TV shows aren't given much of a chance, probably since they're underground cult following and not mainstream (which isn't me, and lots of other people). Although I would compare this show to The X-Files; that show had some mainstream appeal that probably lacked from Threshold. Anyway, I hope this isn't the end of a great scifi show that deserves a huge chance.

[–] BenjaminCS 18 years ago

Amen to that!

[–] spiner_fan47 18 years ago

"I've seen brilliant series' cancelled in less than a year." - Brent Spiner

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[–] mmctheny 18 years ago

It's truly diappointing. NBC universal is slowly becoming white trash reality central. They're doing this on all of their channels. Oh BTW these are not reality shows .. they are really Games shows -- contestants earn prizews .. In reality , you don't win prizes for the junk they do on these shows.

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[–] bstrenski-1 18 years ago

It was on Blow, er Showtime, but Odyssey 5 was the same way. Good sci-fi. It made you think a bit. Good reviews, perhaps one of the stronger followings I have seen.

Dead Like Me. Got great reviews, good ratings, cancelled.

Jeremiah was even OK.

All were canceled in favour of shows that basically suck, or try to deliver on some agenda.

[–] mcbain791 18 years ago

Reality TV is crud. And I guess they are more appealing to the 'houswife stuck at home', rather than people who want to flick on the idiot box at the end of the day, and watch aliens/space ships/mutants/vampires and stuff.

[–] momlilmonsters 17 years ago

Housewife stuck at home, huh?
I am a stay at home mom and would much prefer shows like Threshold and Stargate and Star Trek over some of this supposed reality crud.

[–] doomhz 18 years ago

Is it true? They cancelled it? Why? How much episods does this movie has?

P.S.: I've just started to watch this movie and i've seen 13 series... Are there more series?

[–] rlilga-1 18 years ago

There is this thing called ratings and I'm guessing that Threshold didn't get good ones. I'd never heard of the show until Sci-Fi started running it and then only because they showed an episode after Battlestar Galactica (a truly good TV show, not just quality sci-fi). I watched it and kind of liked it so I'm watching the next 2 eps Sci-fi showed off my DVR as I write this. It's OK, but I'm still waiting to see what seperates it from other shows like Invasion, which I did watch last season. I guess because it came on after Lost.

[–] MsWhat 18 years ago

If anyone wants to know the history of the show, just read past threads in this forum.

[–] bgrubb 18 years ago

The Nova (US)/Horizon (BBC) episode "Can you trust TV ratings" shows the ratings are bunch of snake oil. 1) They are NOT a random sampling rendering them totally useless from a statistical standpoint. 2) They are easily manipulated. Want to kill a popular show? Put it in a time slot totally ill suited to its demongraphics (NBC did this with Star Trek in its 3rd season) Want to ensure a show has crappy ratings and so kill it? Either bounce it around so much it never can get a loyal following (CBS's Flash) or run it against a long established program that caters to the same demongraphics (NBC did this with a news program by running it against 60 minutes - it lasted perhaps a month) 3) It ignore the fact that even good ratings doe not ensure a show's survival. Farscape and Alien Nation (Sci-fi channel) and Big O (CN) both had really good ratings and they both got canned.

[–] JamesCurse 18 years ago

do you know how do they make this ratings? calling people and asking them .what are you watching? the ratings do not say nothing. The people say it.

[–] prydain17 17 years ago

Out of the canceled sci-fi shows of the 2005-2006 season, the ones I miss the most are "Threshold" and "Night Stalker". I did not like "Surface" much, it was okay but by far the cheesiest. I watched "Invasion" to the bitter end, and even though I really enjoyed it, it just wasn't as FUN as "Threshold" or "Night Stalker". Not to mention the fact that those two were the darkest of the sci-fi shows.

I think "Threshold" is the best show dealing with aliens that I have ever seen.

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[–] SkeetUlrich7 17 years ago

Wait a minute, pardon my ignorance but was X-Files cancelled ?? cause i've watched all nine seasons for exception of the very last episode i dont know why my dvd doent play it, i vpoied it , downloaded it and nothing, so that means that in the last episode end with a bridge to another season or what ??

TY ppl please get back to me on that.

[–] JesusMFingChrist 17 years ago

Good, or even great shows get cancelled because networks give them a crappy slot, or, worse, keep changing their slot too much.

The up side is that, with scifi at least, good cancelled shows are checked out by fans..and seem to be rememebered fondly.

Rememebr Space: Above and Beyond ?????

I sure frigging do. Loved it.

[–] quasipox 17 years ago

What I can't get is the fact that Sci-Fi, which I've always loved, has some great shows under it's belt and has the rights to awesome shows like this, Firefly, John Doe, etc., and they haven't tried to bring at least one back? I'll take any pretty much, but especially Threshold and Firefly (In my opinion, some of the best sci-fi tv shows of the past decade). And with the expanding cable market, I'm sure there's ways to get these shows back. If not on Sci-Fi, then on some other channel. Heck, create a new channel. If Family Guy and Futurama can come back, I think, with some good support, we could swing Threshold back.

[–] rayvin813 17 years ago

It's not just one company axing the great shows, unfortunately. I refused to watch Fox for the longest time because they axed some of my favorites, John Doe and Point Pleasant included. I was absolutely ecstatic about seeing John Doe on the Sci Fi channel. And now, because of that, I have all of the episodes from the show between DVD's and my DVR. Thankfully, Fox released Point Pleasant on DVD. So...one good point to their credit?

I am, however, STILL refusing to watch TNT because the station is absolutely full of crap! No matter how many petitions the fans fill out, they are STILL, five years later, dragging their heels about releasing WITCHBLADE on DVD. My videotapes are all screwed up from me watching them so many times.

I have always said that my favorite shows, which all happen to be sci-fi shows, are all canceled within the first three seasons. Which gripes me out to no end. Invasion and Threshold are no exceptions. I am a firm believer that the networks pick out their personal favorites, and slot the shows that fall short in super-competitive slots or, in the case of Point Pleasant, do not advertise the show sufficiently to maintain viewers.

It's really a shame. What has happened to television? We used to be able to choose what we watched. Now, it's like the networks choose for us. It's really getting old. When will they wake up and realize that we, the viewers, are why they exist?

[–] Asteri-Atypical 17 years ago

SciFi Channel has rights to John Doe and Firefly?

Those IDIOTS.