[OT] Farscape

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

For those of you who haven't heard, Sci-Fi has decided not to renew
Farscape for its promised 5th season.  Their lame-ass excuse goes like
this:

    There are no bigger fans of Farscape than we here at Sci Fi
    Channel," the network said in a press release. "It was one of Sci
    Fi's first original series and quickly became a critical and fan
    favorite. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to reach a broader
    audience, Farscape has been unable to grow beyond its core fan-base.
    That, coupled with the extreme and growing cost of production, has
    led to the difficult decision to end the series at the conclusion of
    season four.

Read the rest here:

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-09/09/13.00.sfc

Of course, all this comes right after Sci-Fi's best ratings ever...

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-sfc.html?2002-08/28/10.30.sfc

The whole thing sounds rather bogus to me.

Anyway, there are a million web sites with the rest of the story.
Here's a good place to start:

    http://www.farscapeweekly.com/cancelled.htm

And be sure to sign the petition if you care about the show:

    http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SAVE_FARSCAPE/

At last count, they were up to something like 14k signatures.

Various cast members and such have been making unscheduled appearances
on irc.scifi.com #farscape.  If you are a fan of the show, you might
want to check it out.

If you aren't familiar with Farscape, it is an award-winning show
produced by The Jim Henson Company (yes, as in "The Muppets", although
the Creature Shop has come a long way since The Dark Crystal, but I
digress...) that generally airs on Fridays on the Sci-Fi Channel.  It
has consistently been one of the top-rated shows on that network (if
not *the* top-rated show).  As it says on Sci-Fi's own web site, TV
Guide called it "the best science-fiction series on TV."

See the official web site and Sci-Fi's site if you want to know more.

    http://www.farscape.com/
    http://www.scifi.com/farscape/

Steve
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