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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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Universal Studios: Proudly Treating The Public Like Shit For 27 Years
« on: November 20, 2005, 12:08:08 PM »

Pick any particular aspect of the way Universal Studios conducts itself business wise, and you will discover a HORRIFIC WORK ETHIC that has kept "Battlestar Galactica" DEAD for 27 years, and REPEATEDLY yields classic television series from Universal Studios vaults being released on DVD with all of the visual quality of a UHF television broadcast from the 1970's. Perhaps more than anything else, Universal Studios operates under policies and procedures that simply ARE NOT WORKING. There are those within Universal Studios who would argue that the policies they operate under suit them just fine, but if the FAILED POLICES and FAILED MANAGEMENT within Universal Studios which led to the existence of GINO and "UHF RECEPTION TV-DVD RELEASES" is somehow making Universal Studios shit loads of cash, then Universal Studios is the one and only business on Earth where IDIOCY in all departments of upper level management has been successful.

Universal Studios is paying the price right now for their FAILED MANAGEMENT which led to the existence of GINO. They have had to take on the ADDITIONAL EXPENSE of hiring STEALTH MARKETERS to PATROL THE INTERNET 24 hours a day / 7 days a week to openly ARGUE with the public over the POOR QUALITY PRODUCT which is GINO. If this studio had simply expressed one ounce of intelligence in their management of "Battlestar Galactica" in the first place, none of these ENDLESS B-Board wars would be going on right now, from Ragnar Anchorage, to Cornell's little shit hole. So, Universal Studios created a MESS for themselves that they CAN'T CLEAN UP. Universal Studios ONLY OPTION (other than openly admitting they are a SHIT-BAG corporation) is to treat the public like CRAP via the further existence of GINO, their continued and DELIBERATE MISMANAGEMENT of the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES", and their continued trend of releasing classic television series on DVD"s which have the visual quality of a UHF broadcast.

Richard Hatch once stated that the further you go up in management within Universal Studios, the more DEAD BRAIN CELLS
you encounter. I think the DEAD BRAIN CELLS within Universal Studios management starts alot lower than the WHITE COLLAR MANAGEMENT. The IDIOCY begins at the MID-MANAGEMENT LEVEL, where television programming is the HARDEST HIT. It is here that you will find the FAILED MANAGEMENT and the FAILED POLICIES of the Sci-Fi Channel. A channel that can't even tell the truth in a simple press release shouldn't be in business at all. If the Sci-Fi Channel were GUTTED tomorrow, there would be NO TEARS over the ABRUPT DEATH of this network. Bonnie Hammer has PROVEN that the same FAILED PROGRAMMING POLICIES she applied to the "Lifetime" network, and "Saturday afternoon wrestling", DO NOT MIX WELL with Science Fiction programming. Thus, we have a FAILED, BACKWATER CABLE NETWORK erroneously titled "Sci-Fi Channel", which was just last night showing a rerun of the "Hitcher." This has AS LITTLE TO DO WITH Science Fiction programming as "GINO", "Epoch", "Cape Fear", "Mansquito", the "Flintstones", and "Field of Dreams."

Universal Studios has policies and procedures for business operations that might look good on paper, and may yield a THEORETICALLY good ROI, but when these policies and procedures are actually implemented, Sci-Fi Channel ends up being a HACK CABLE NETWORK that is JUST BARELY GETTING BY. "GINO" ends up being the WORST TELEVISION SERIES IN HISTORY. Television DVD releases end up having a SNOWY, UHF-esque picture quality.  The "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" REMAINS DEAD.  Kiss Cool


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