BSG Changing to Sunday Night
For reasons that make little or no sense to me except that a channel wants to kill a show, SciFi Channel is moving Battlestar Galactica to Sunday nights in the 10PM slot. WTF are they thinking? Their ratings are down from 2.3 million to 2.1 million; that’s not much of an excuse to change. Changing things up makes a situation worse, not better.
This reminds me of Fox’s idiotic moves to cancel Space: Above and Beyond and Stargate because they kept moving them around nights and potential fans never had a chance to bond with the shows. S:AaB has since found a cult following on the interwebs, and Stargate has gone on to be the longest running science fiction show in history.
*sigh*
Via Galacticaa.net.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Dammit, now I gotta buy a DVR and won’t be able to watch the fraking thing until Wednesday. Booo! :-(
November 24th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Betamax. It’s the future.
November 25th, 2006 at 10:05 am
I’m a little shocked that you left out Fox’s idiotic moving around of Firefly, which had the exact same effect. Rarely has a network been so careless as with that show.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I know I have heard from several sources that Stargate is the longest running science fiction show in history, but I believe that honour actually goes to Doctor Who. Don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan of Stargate SG-1, and now Atlantis as well, but Doctor Who ran for decades (1963-1989 - 26 seasons and 694 episodes (1/2hr each I think)) and is now back for a third season of the new Doctor Who series.