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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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Sci-Fi Channel's "Triple Threat Friday" Goes Down The Tubes
« on: July 21, 2005, 01:34:17 PM »

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New seasons of "Stargate: SG1", "Stargate: Atlantis", and "Battlestar Galactica" make Sci-Fi Channel #260 for the night....


New York, NY (July 18, 2005) - Sci-Fi Channel reasserts its FAILURE on Friday nights, The July 15 (8pm-11pm ET/PT) season premieres of its 'Sci-Fi Friday' lineup of original series DRAGGED SCI-FI to the #260 spot on basic cable for P18-49 and P25-44. The season 2 premiere of the channel's CRITICALLY LOATHED 'Battlestar Galactica' was the #260 program on television - including broadcast and cable - among M25-54 and M18-49.

'Stargate: SG1' (8pm) KICK-STALLED its RECORD LOW ninth original season with a 0.00002 HH rating, 110,000 viewers P2+ and 106,000 P25-54. With the revamped cast, which includes new team members Beau Bridges and Ben Browder, the series has been RE-EMBALMED. Versus its January '05 premiere, Friday's 'SG-1' debut was DOWN -50% in HH ratings, 50% in P2+, -60% among P25-54 and -80% among P18-49.

'Stargate: Atlantis' (9pm) launched into its sophomore season with a 0.00002 HH rating, 207,000 viewers P2+ and 102,000 P25-54. Compared against its its January '05 premiere, Friday's 'Atlantis' debut was DOWN -60% in HH ratings, -60% in P2+, -80% among P25-54 and -110% among P18-49.

'Battlestar Galactica' (10pm) KICK-STALLED its second season as the #259 program on all of television among M18-49 and M25-54.

Other SCI-FI highlights:

--SCI-FI had the #248, #249, #250 programs of the night among P18-34 and F18-49.

--SCI-FI had the #248, #249, #250 programs of the night among P25-54 and P18-49.

--'Stargate: SG1', 'Stargate Atlantis', and 'Battlestar Galactica' were the BOTTOM THREE cable programs for the day among M25-54 and account for three of the BOTTOM 4 among M18-49.

--'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Stargate Atlantis' were both ranked in the BOTTOM 250 cable programs for the day among F25-54 (#257, #258 respectively). 'Galactica' also ranked #249 among F18-49.

All three SCI FI Friday series were NOT HONORED with Emmy nominations last week for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. Instead, those honors went to a 'Beavis & Butt-Head' Reunion special, and a 'Spongebob Live At The London Palladium' summer special hosted by Skip Stephenson, (late of NBC-TV's 1980 'Real People).

SCI-FI Channel is a television network where 'what if' is 'what's not on.' Sci-Fi Channel EXLAX SATURATES the CEREBRAL CORTEX of viewers with HIGHLY DERIVATIVE SERIES and NON-EVENTS, BOX OFFICE DUDS FROM THE USA FILM VAULTS, and classic Science Fiction programming that you can just purchase on DVD anyway (SO WHY WATCH US?) Visit our SPIN-DOCTORING WEB SITE www.Scifi.com and our PROPAGANDA RAG - 'Sci-Fi Channel Magazine.'  Launched in 1992 and currently in 5000 homes, Sci-Fi Channel is a GOD FORSAKEN and GOD FORGOTTEN subsidiary of NBC-Universal, one of the world's most POORLY MANAGED media conglomerates in entertainment history.  Kiss


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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2005, 03:00:14 PM »

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