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Here's a comprehensive look at the current landscape of television sf.

Share: | Posted by John on Tuesday May 18, 2004 - 8:29 AM | Category: TV | © 2004 SF Signal

As if we needed more re-inforcement of just how bad SF TV is currently. That is horrible. Maybe Battlestar Galactica will be decent. I hope so. There's really nothing much else out there.

Posted by jp on Tuesday May 18, 2004 at 10:26 AM

What we really need is for sf to become the "next big thing". Today we have an overpowering glut of reality shows on air or in development. Wouldn't it be cool if the same happened for sf? Or, how about an "sf facelift" to some existing shows? I'm thinking "The Space Apprentice", "Universal Idol", "Survivor Asteroid", "Alien Eye for the Terran Guy"...that sort of thing.

Or maybe I'm on crack.

Posted by John on Tuesday May 18, 2004 at 10:49 AM

Mutant X, a formulaic show with some cute actresses, unfortunately, will be cancelled after this season so that probably shouldn't be on that list anymore. It wasn't due to ratings either, I don't think. The news was that studio went out of business or something.

Bummer for me, but probably good news for those "i-need-good-SF" bigots like JP...

Posted by Pete on Tuesday May 18, 2004 at 11:11 AM

Well at one point, before it went for it's final dive into the Pacific, Space Station MIR was supposed to be the "ultimate destination" of the winner of a Survivor spinoff show.

However, the promises by the Russian Space Agency seemed to be more fiction than science, and they couldn't keep that puppy in the sky any longer.

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday May 18, 2004 at 7:04 PM