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THE TRACK RECORD OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL......"JOHN EDWARD" CANCELLED....."THE CHRONICLE" CANCELLED......"FARSCAPE" CANCELLED....."TREMORS" CANCELLED......"DREAM TEAM" CANCELLED...."SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE" CANCELLED....."BLACK SCORPION" CANCELLED....."SCIOGRAPHY" CANCELLED....."SCI-FI VORTEX" CANCELLED....."INVISIBLE MAN" CANCELLED....."G VS. E" CANCELLED....."WILLIAM SHATNER'S FULL MOON FRIGHT NIGHT" CANCELLED...."FIRST WAVE" CANCELLED....."FTL NEWSFEED" CANCELLED....."NEW OUTER LIMITS" CANCELLED......"POLTERGIEST-THE LEGACY" CANCELLED....."TOTAL RECALL-2070" CANCELLED......"THE WAR ROOM" CANCELLED......"SCI-FI BUZZ" CANCELLED......"TRIPPING THE RIFT" CANCELLED......"SLIDERS" CANCELLED....."WEEKLY SCI-FI NEWS WITH CHASE MASTERSON" CANCELLED...."MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000" CANCELLED....."VR-5" CANCELLED........"TIME TRAX" CANCELLED......."THE FLASH" CANCELLED......"NOW & AGAIN" CANCELLED......"M.A.N.T.I.S." CANCELLED......."FANTASY ISLAND" CANCELLED......"TIME COP" CANCELLED........"SPACE PRECINCT" CANCELLED......."MAX HEADROOM" CANCELLED......."THE MAGICIAN" CANCELLED....."SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN" CANCELLED........"BIONIC WOMAN" CANCELLED......"HULK" CANCELLED......"SWAMP THING" CANCELLED......"WONDER WOMAN" CANCELLED......"THE IMMORTAL" CANCELLED......"VIPER" CANCELLED......"RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" CANCELLED (??)........CANCELLATIONS INCLUDE SCI-FI CHANNEL ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING AND SYNDICATED SERIES SHOWN ON SCI-FI CHANNEL...."RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED YET.....

"VAN HELSING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE HULK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CAT IN THE HAT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."JOSEY & THE PUSSYCATS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."FLINTSONES" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIVA: ROCK VEGAS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."HOWARD THE DUCK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."PITCH BLACK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIRUS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE.....

WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CANCELLED ALL OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AND REPLACED THEM WITH NON-SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, THEY NEGLECTED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE NETWORK TO SOMETHING MORE FITTING. "THE HORROR CHANNEL", "THE USA NETWORK FILM VAULT CHANNEL", "THE INFOMERCIAL NETWORK", "THE HORROR/ACTION CHANNEL", OR "THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORK" WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE TITLES.

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TRACK RECORD WITH FANTASY MOVIES ISN'T MUCH BETTER. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS USUALLY RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WHEN THEY TRY TO MAKE LIVE ACTION MOVIES BASED ON COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. THE "HULK" BORED AUDIENCES TO DEATH BARELY 10 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE.....TURNING "VAN HELSING" INTO A SUPERNATURAL "RAMBO" WAS TOO RIDICULOUS FOR WORDS....."CAT IN THE HAT" PROVED THAT 5 YEAR OLD KIDS WEREN'T READY FOR "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" HUMOR......"JOSEY AND THE PUSSYCATS" WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A "CHARLIE'S ANGELS" RETREAD BASED ON A 1970 CARTOON THAT NO ONE REMEMBERED......THE "FLINTSTONES" MOVIES PROVED THAT REBUILDING "BEDROCK" ON A STUDIO BACKLOT WASN'T ENOUGH TO DRAW IN THE FANS OF THE CARTOON.....SOME PROPERTIES SHOULD BE LEFT IN CARTOON FORM, WHICH "ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" PROVED......"HOWARD THE DUCK" WAS GEORGE LUCAS'S FIRST CAREER FLOP. HOW FITTING THAT LUCAS CHOSE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FOR THAT MOMENTOUS OCCASION......"PITCH BLACK" WAS "PITCH DULL"....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" DISAPPEARED FROM THEATERS FASTER THAN "FINAL FANTASY-THE SPIRITS WITHIN"......AND "VIRUS" PROVED THAT WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS MADE A MOVIE FOR THE SUMMER OF 1999, NO ONE CAME AND WENT TO THE BEACH INSTEAD......

THE MANAGEMENT OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS AN OPENLY HOSTILE REGIME TOWARDS THE VIEWING PUBLIC, SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, AND THE "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" COPYRIGHT. THE ENDLESS GRAVEYARD OF CANCELLED TELEVISION SHOWS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AS WELL AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ENDLESS BOX OFFICE FAILURES INDICATES THAT THIS IS A CORPORATION THAT DELIBERATELY LOST ITS WAY IN MAKING RATIONAL BUSINESS DECISIONS. ONE CAN ALWAYS HOPE FOR MIRACLES, AND THE PERMANENT FINANCIAL DOWNFALL OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS A DREAM SHARED BY MANY.
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Carefully Worded Clap-Trap: A Closer Look At The Sci-Fi Channel Press Releases
« on: February 11, 2005, 08:32:56 AM »

It was the perfect marriage between Ronald D. Moore's production, and www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire. Ron Moore's production is FAILING in the ratings, needs all of the help it can get in being PROPPED UP with PROPAGANDA; and www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire routinely LIES ITS ASS OFF in PRESS RELEASES. Never underestimate the BULLSHIT CAPABILITIES of www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire. This news service ( Roll Eyes) of the Sci-Fi Channel can take the most VILE HUNK OF DREK ever produced for American television, and keep it on the air well past the time it should have been CANCELLED, simply through UTTER LIES and MASSIVELY INFLATED RATINGS CLAIMS.

Taking a closer look at www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire, and its real purpose in life in the grand scheme of things for Sci-Fi Channel; we see a news service ( Roll Eyes) whose purpose it is NOT TO TELL THE TRUTH with JOURNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITY, but rather; post on-line a series of LIES designed to keep Bonnie Hammer and her minions EMPLOYED. www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire is a POLITICAL TOOL of the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel corporation. www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire COVERS UP the BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS of Sci-Fi Channel, HIDES FROM THE PUBLIC the FAILING RATINGS of Sci-Fi Channel original programming, creates the FALSE IMPRESSION that Bonnie Hammer knows what the hell she is doing in managing the channel, posts MASSIVELY INFLATED RATINGS DATA for the sole purpose of SECURING FUNDING for its original programming from sources TOO STUPID to research the Sci-Fi Channel's actual ratings themselves. Do you honestly think "Sky One" would express any sort of initiative in DOUBLE CHECKING the RATINGS CLAIMS of Bonnie Hammer and her minions before they write her next blank check? HELL NO!! "Sky One"-(The British Piggy Bank Of Bonnie Hammer) BELIEVES EVERYTHING THE WITCH TELLS THEM. All of this time, "Sky One" has been footing the bill for a CRAPPY ASS TELEVISION SERIES produced and written by Ronald D. Moore THAT HAS BEEN FAILING IN THE RATINGS. All because www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire is so good at BLOWING SMOKE UP "SKY ONE'S" ASS, and "Sky One" IS TOO DAMN LAZY TO DOUBLE CHECK THEIR RATINGS CLAIMS.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the latest BULLSHIT PRESS RELEASE from www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire, if you read it carefully enough, REALLY ISN'T A GO AHEAD FOR A SECOND SEASON. What it is, is a CONDITIONAL, and CAUTIONARY GREEN LIGHT; for Ronald D. Moore TO WRAP UP HIS STORY within the next VERY FEW EPISODES. Hell, Sci-Fi Channel DIDN'T EVEN SAY that they had ordered six more episodes. What I read from that press release, is that Ronald D. Moore has been given the go ahead for a couple more episodes, and a two-hour WRAP UP MOVIE. That press release mainly SCREAMS two hour WRAP-UP MOVIE. This press release was the usual SPIN DOCTORED BULLSHIT from www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire. "Everythings fine.....we're fine.....how are you?" What was DIFFERENT about this press release however (different from all other press releases); was the TOTAL ABSENCE OF ENTHUSIASM on Sci-Fi Channel's part for this SUPPOSED second season ( Roll Eyes) pick-up ( Roll Eyes). It was also remarkably brief (Sci-Fi Channel CRAPPED IT OUT in a rush), vaguely pessimistic (Covering up their BLATANT PESSIMISM), a tad unsure of itself (covering up the Sci-Fi Channel's BLATANT INDECISIVENESS in this manner), and not ringing truthful (Sci-Fi Channel HAS DOUBTS THEMSELVES about any sort of a second season, even six episodes or less).

Now, if Ronald D. Moore's series has been doing as well as the Sci-Fi Channel has claimed, why not a FULL BLOWN, CONFIDENT, PRESS RELEASE from www.Scifi.com/scifiwire with all of the usual BELLS & WHISTLES from Sci-Fi Channel? "GREATEST TV SHOW EVER.......", "SHATTERING ALL COMPETITION WHICH LED TO A 22 EPISODE SECOND SEASON.....", "LENGTHY RUN PLANNED FOR RON MOORE'S SERIES....." . NOPE!! There was none of that. Instead, just a few sentences indicating a pick-up.

Never before has the Sci-Fi Channel expressed such a LACK OF CONFIDENCE in a press release. IT'S VERY REFRESHING!! I HOPE IT CONTINUES!!!  Kiss


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