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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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What Has The Sci-Fi Channel Accomplished In 13 Years?
« on: February 14, 2005, 07:04:41 PM »

Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer have a track record that can only be described as SHAMEFUL since they took over the channel in 1993. Instead of moving forward, instead of achieving tangible goals; a gradual 13 year EROSION has characterized Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer's management of the channel. Here we are, in February 2005; over a decade since Universal and Bonnie Hammer have been in place at the channel; and what does the Sci-Fi Channel nightly schedule have to show for it? Has there been progress, a proud legacy of any sort evident in the Sci-Fi Channel's nightly or weekly schedule? Nope!!

EROSION and nothing but EROSION has characterized Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer's management of the channel. The sort of EROSION that lets the television viewer know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Universal Studios has been the WRONG CORPORATION to own the channel, and Bonnie Hammer the WRONG MANAGER of the channel.

13 years after Universal and Hammer took over the channel; and their Prime Time nightly schedule is LITERALLY NON-EXISTENT. Out of the seven nights a week the Sci-Fi Channel broadcasts, they have ONE, and only ONE series that can be considered a moderate hit: "Stargate: SG1." Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer have had 13 years to build up a "seven night a week" schedule of original programming. THEY HAVE FAILED. After 13 years, they have THREE, AND ONLY THREE Prime Time television series:

1) Stargate: SG1
2) Stargate: Atlantis
3) Battle Crap: Galactica

I'll be generous and throw in that stupid ass "Ghost Hunter" show, and make it four Prime Time television series. Because of this; the Sci-Fi Channel's nightly, seven night a week broadcasting time consists of four FORGETTABLE television series broadcast on two nights. That leaves the other five nights a week that Sci-Fi Channel MAKES NO ATTEMPT to fill with either quality programming, or any sort of original programming at all. The other five nights when the Sci-Fi Channel's FOUR prime time series are not being broadcast, they fill up their schedule with CRAPPY MOVIES from the USA film vaults (Non-Science Fiction movies I might add), and Bonnie Hammer's "Mutated Wild Life" movies she plays on Saturday nights.

WHAT THE HELL has Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer been doing for the past 13 years? Their jobs? ( Roll Eyes) HAAAAA!!! They sure as hell haven't been managing the Sci-Fi Channel. The only thing they HAVE DONE is CANCEL every Science Fiction television series I have listed in my "News Box" above. Why does Universal Studios even bother owning this channel? THEY SURE AS HELL AREN'T DOING ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE WITH IT. Lately, the most I have seen Sci-Fi Channel do is ADVERTISE THE HELL OUT OF Ronald D. Moore's "Battle Crap: Galactica" series. The money Sci-Fi Channel PISSED AWAY in advertising Ronald D. Moore's CRAP FEST, they could have spent on at least two additional "Prime Time" television series. Sci-Fi Channel PISSES AWAY money like it's going out of style, and ironically; they never spend the money on what they should be spending money on, LIKE BUILDING UP A SEVEN NIGHT A WEEK BLOCK of original, "Prime Time" television series. Sci-Fi Channel always PISSES AWAY money in the wrong direction; such as, HIRING ON-LINE MARKETERS to PROMOTE THE SHIT OUT OF Ronald D. Moore's CRAP FEST. Sci-Fi Channel BLOWS ALL OF THIS MONEY, and it NEVER SHOWS UP on their schedule in the form of additional, ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING.

So, I ask again: WHAT THE HELL HAS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS AND BONNIE HAMMER ACCOMPLISHED IN 13 YEARS, RUNNING THIS CHANNEL?


                                                                    NOT A DAMN THING   Kiss


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Re: What Has The Sci-Fi Channel Accomplished In 13 Years?
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2005, 07:46:26 AM »

Still not accomplishing anything, huh Sci-Fi Channel?  Kiss
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