Stargate Universe Cancelled

[jayfish]

http://tv.ign.com/articles/114/1140558p1.html

The Stargate saga looks to be coming to an end for now. Deadline reports that Syfy has cancelled Stargate Universe and won't be renewing the series for a third season. The show still has ten episode left for Season 2, which will air in the spring.

And with that goes any reason what-so-ever for me to tune into Syfy. What a garbage channel...

[Beetwasher]

1. That Blows, Will They Get To Wrap It Up?

[jayfish]

2. Probably Not.

The rest of the current season is already in the can. They'll just play it out and leaving hanging at the S2 finale cliffhanger.

[drm604]

3. Well that sucks. n/t

[kentauros]

4. I agree with you on that for my reasons to stop watching "Syfy", too.

I was talking to my brother over the holiday (he does video-editing/post-production in Austin) and one of their clients had some animated bumps to present to Syfy. He got to go to the meeting with the Syfy execs, I guess to pitch the bumps. When they were turned down, someone asked why, adding that they were perfect for a science fiction station. Here's their "suit" answer, as best I remember it:

"We're really trying to get away from that label."

In other words, the "syfy" channel doesn't want to be associated with science fiction anymore, likely relying on their phonetic name to attract unsuspecting new viewers with no clue as to what real science-fiction entails. My brother mentioned that they intend to air cooking shows soon :eyes:

[jayfish]

5. I came accross this...

on another site I frequent:

The Face of Syfy: Howe to Hammer Away a Channel

The name SYFY has more letters in common with the word FantaSY than it does with Science Fiction. This comes as no surprise when you look at the definition of what Science Fiction is from the points of view of Bonnie Hammer and Dave Howe:
" anything outside of what we know to be true. Sci-fi is speculative fiction. <...> It's a place for reverie. Fantastical. The magical. Very different." This was Bonnie Hammers definition of Sci Fi according to a 2001 article with CNN.
Science fiction' to most people conjures up a narrow definition of space, but the term 'fantasy' is much more appealing, especially to women," Dave Howe told AdWeek a year before changing the Sci Fi Channel to Syfy. " doesn't just mean swords and sorcery, but includes the world of magic, supernatural, the paranormal. And women are more open to the paranormal and supernatural than men are."
The reason that Syfy's programming includes increasing amounts of Reality, Fantasy and Wrestling is because Bonnie Hammer and Dave Howe not only have a fundamental aversion to the Science Fiction genre, but they don't understand it.

It's a rough read but there are some nuggets in there.

[kentauros]

6. Thanks for the link

and I'm still reading it :)

Although, so far, I haven't learned anything but what we've all known about TV-execs for decades: they're often quite savvy with the business of television while knowing next to nothing about its content (unless that content has high ratings and markets well to the lowest common denominator.) In a nutshell, they're shallow and quite "content" with that :)

I'll pass this link on to my brother. He may or may not have read it, but I know he won't be surprised at the content of it ;)

[txlibdem]

7. That explains the entire nights assigned to ghost hunting shows

If I wanted to watch shows about stuff that doesn't make any sense and doesn't even exist I'd tune in FOX NEWS.

I'm disgusted with SYFY for ending SG Universe and the excerpts from that article are all I could stomach, I sure as heck have no intention of reading the link. I get nauseous easily.