Rob Jensen wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:39:13 -0700, SFTV_troy <SFTV_troy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 1, 5:49 pm, Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> I think NBC Universal should buy the network out, and cherry pick
>>> remaining shows -- move Reaper (into Chuck's timeslot), Smallville
>>> and Supernatural (to Wednesdays, [with] Bionic Woman)
>>
>> If you gave those shows to NBC, they'd all be canceled in 6 months
>> time. NBC has a lousy, lousy history with sci-fi or fantasy shows.
>>
>> NBC killed:
>> - star trek
>> - bionic woman (original)
>> - buck rogers
>> - seaquest
>> - earth2
>> - surface
>>
>> I'm going to throw Quantum Leap in there because, even though it was a
>> popular show, NBC killed it just because "we don't like sci-fi". (The
>> man who said that was some midget called Littlefield... felt...
>> jerk... something like that.)
>>
>> NBC has left a bad taste in my mouth.
>
> Your problem is that of the shows you're citing, over half of them are
> 10 years old or more (Seaquest, Earth 2), and often 20-25 years old
> (BW:TOS, Buck Rogers, Trek:TOS) and the one recent one that you cite
> was just plain terrible (Surface.)
>
> IOW, they're all straw men regarding NBC's current attitude toward the
> SF genre, which includes embracing Heroes and the new BW,
The new BW isn't going to fly... no matter how good it turns out to be.
The reason? It's got Isaiah Wa****ngton in it, and people are still
bitter towards him for allegedly referring to TR Knight as a "fa**ot" on
the Grey's Anatomy set. The show made a fatal mistake, before it even
aired an episode, by hiring Wa****ngton.
--- Cory
|
