"Kansas" ratings

They aren't so great. In fact, Tracker in the 10pm timeslot did better than Farscape at 8pm. I didn't quite expect things would look this bad, I mean Tracker? I actually watched that piece of dren! gah!

http://www.watchfarscape.com/news/ar...php?newsid=218

I'm looking at it this way. The show is already cancelled, nothing is going to change that, so ratings don't matter anymore. We have our beloved show for 10 more glorious episodes and history will have been made. I intend to enjoy it more than ever now that I know the end is final.

Kemper still keeps saying that it is not dead and that the ratings now matter more than ever. I am surprised that they weren't better with all the publicity it got when they cancelled it. Of course, it they had shown even repeats when all that was going on then there would be new viewers and the rating would be better.

Originally posted by Artemis
Kemper still keeps saying that it is not dead and that the ratings now matter more than ever. I am surprised that they weren't better with all the publicity it got when they cancelled it. Of course, it they had shown even repeats when all that was going on then there would be new viewers and the rating would be better.

I agree with you completly.......I never liked the fact that they could play repeats of SG-1 but not Farscape.........to me it just proved the point that Sci-Fi was determined to make sure that Farscape had no hope.

Well the thing with SG1 is the reruns on Monday are episodes that they've never shown before ever on SFC, not to mention being a few seasons behind the new eps on Friday.

What SFC SHOULD have done was shown the episodes that they showed in the summer again in the same timeslot in the fall... for both Farscape and SG1 (who's raitings fell an appreciable degree...). It's not like they had anything better to show in that timeslot for months...

Originally posted by Arrghman
Well the thing with SG1 is the reruns on Monday are episodes that they've never shown before ever on SFC, not to mention being a few seasons behind the new eps on Friday.

What SFC SHOULD have done was shown the episodes that they showed in the summer again in the same timeslot in the fall... for both Farscape and SG1 (who's raitings fell an appreciable degree...). It's not like they had anything better to show in that timeslot for months...

And they could have shown season 1-3 episodes of Farscape with the earlier SG1 rather than 4 straight hours of SG1. Then people who heard about it in the news could have caught up and maybe gotten hooked.

SFC really isn't interested in expanding the fan base... Heaven forbid they should listen to the fans!! Idiots run the place!!

Me dad reckons someone took a backhander or a bribe to kill Farscape as quickly as possible, and I'm starting to wonder if he's right. Someone certainly wants that show dead.

Well come on... character driven stories that are well written an acted? It might set a precedence which none of the networks wants to live up to. They might even attract intelligent viewers and they wouldn't want that.

Precisely... all that gumpf about wanting to attract a wider audience is crap, when they're killing off a show that could do exactly that if advertised right.

Originally posted by Proximo
Me dad reckons someone took a backhander or a bribe to kill Farscape as quickly as possible, and I'm starting to wonder if he's right. Someone certainly wants that show dead.

Exactly. Something smells fishy...

About the rerun issue, I believe part of the reason the deal with Farscape and Sci-Fi soured is thanks to the handling of the rerun issue. I remember comments from analysts/officials/executives that repeats of Farscape aren't profitable to Sci-Fi because of the agreement with the Farscape companies *of which there are many*. I don't recall specifically what the arrangement was, but Sci-Fi didn't like it. The business model for Farscape is very intricately woven through many investors, all in an effort to make a very pricey show fly.

Well, if it wasn't for the re-run in the past, I wouldn't have become a fan of the show.

Originally posted by Vertigo1


Exactly. Something smells fishy...

I really don't think anything smells fishy and I don't suspect any foul play... when you take the entire situation into account. Farscape wasn't getting as high ratings as SFC wanted and their parent company, Vivendi, was in financial trouble and was looking in to, at the time, which of its assests it was going to get rid of/sell. SFC didn't want to be one of those, and with the ratings the way they were, Farscape was riskier because if they didn't improve, the wouldn't be able to take in as much advertising money and ran a greater chance of losing money. So the best short term decision was to play it safe and cancel it while investing money into cheaper things with a broader appeal.

That's why they offered to still do the show for a lower cost... they still wanted to keep it but felt that the money they were previously investing in the show didn't have much of a chance of getting them good returns.

It was a short sighted decision, one that played things safe... and they honestly didn't expect the type of fan reaction that they got.