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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 Relies On Heavy Advertising To Mask Its Corporate Inadequacies
« on: August 19, 2005, 10:50:44 AM »

Universal/Sci-Fi Channel will NEVER be known for making the right decisions in any business venture. They will also NEVER be known for attracting the right people for employment who could really do their corporation a world of good. Ronald D. Moore has made the 21st Century equivelent of the "Starlost" tv series, with a slightly larger budget. It comes as no surprise then, that in order to MASK its own CORPORATE INADEQUACIES, and MASK the LACK OF TALENT Ronald D. Moore is known for, Universal/Sci-Fi Channel implemented AGGRESSIVE INTERNET BASED ADVERTISING of Ronald D. Moore's series. Of course, this AGGRESSIVE MARKETING is also designed to hide the fact that Universal/Sci-Fi Channel executives HAVEN'T GOT A GOD DAMN CLUE as to how to do their jobs, or to successfully navigate themselves in their chosen profession.

More often than not, Universal/Sci-Fi Channel executives will put CRAP on our television and movie screens. This is especially true when these executives attempt to tackle a genre that the public dreads each time they try. The public knows all too well what the dreaded outcome will be when Universal/Sci-Fi Channel executives get their hands on the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre. "GINO", the "Hulk" movie, "Pitch Black", "Mansquito", "Alien Express", and "Man-Thing" are just a few of the more MENTALLY HANDICAPPED offerings the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel executives have attempted to RAM DOWN THE PUBLIC'S THROAT. Even though these productions always end up in the DISCOUNT DVD BIN at "Best Buy", this does little to comfort the public that had to put up with this BULLSHIT in the first place.

One thing the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel corporation will NEVER be accused of is expressing WISDOM. When one of their SHIT BAG PRODUCTIONS ends up on our movie or tv screens, we can take comfort in the fact that it was due to IDIOTS within Universal/Sci-Fi channel who NEVER should have been hired into any decision making position, or even as a janitor in Bonnie Hammer's MEN'S ROOM. What can be said about a corporation that gives us "GINO" on Friday nights, and then rounds out the PUNISHMENT with a CRAPPY ASS "Saturday Night Movie?" My record for lasting through a Sci-Fi Channel production (GINO or otherwise) was about five minutes. That record was shattered this past Saturday when I caught about two minutes of "Alien Express", and I couldn't take anymore. When a helicopter crashed into the side of a bridge, and the resulting explosion looked less convincing than an ANIMATED ASTEROID blowing up on the "Superfriends" cartoon from the 1970's, I stood my ground and vowed that the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel corporation would NEVER NAPALM the broadcast airwaves I watch (with their LOW BUDGET CRAP) ever again. The public should just resign themselves to the fact that Universal/Sci-Fi Channel executives are either under the consistent influence of MIND ALTERING CHEMICALS while on the job, or they just don't give a FLYING SHIT as to what they put on the air. "GINO" in particular is the result of the CORPORATE INADEQUACIES at Universal/Sci-Fi Channel that we have come to know and DREAD.  Kiss



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