OK, who ate all the Stargate: Universe?
Extravagan
evening's TV watching, and I was completely unable to find Stargate:
Universe at its usual time, or anywhere near it, on its usual channel.
No new episode, no rerun, no nothing. It's just plain *gone*!
What the hell happened? Did they cancel it?? Why no fanfare?!?
I wish to hell the networks would actually tell viewers what the hell is
going on. For the past few years I've noticed more and more often shows
just jumping around, disappearing for weeks at a time, or even
disappearing and never coming back without any announcements or messages
telling people what to expect and why. Is it gone forever? Is it back in
a week or two? After Christmas? Did it move to another night or a
different time? Who knows! The only way to find out is to check the
guide every day and see if it reappears.
Is it too much to ask for them to a) stick to a regular schedule for
months at a time rather than only a week or two and b) when for some
stupid reason they really can't, put a blasted message at the end of the
episode just before the move/gap/whatever telling people where/when to
find the next one? They do do that *occasionally* -- "Next week's
episode airs at a special time" or similarly -- but all too often they
just silently move stuff around...
Of course, whenever they screw around like this it plays hell with
programmed DVRs too, and no amount of alert messages would help with
that. The thing will record whatever is on at 8 pm, come hell or high
water, and if they yanked your show and replaced it with some stupid
half-baked movie or event or something instead, you'll get a chunk of
that instead of what you wanted.
Of course, people not getting what they want leads to people taking
their money (or their ad-viewing) elsewhere, so I have to question the
intelligence or motives of any businessman at a network that thinks
rearranging the schedule every three weeks is better than rearranging it
just once in May, once in September, and once in January like in the
good old days.
Syvyn11
"Extravagan" <extra...@frogsoup.xelon.com> wrote in message
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> I just checked my cable service's interactive program guide to plan the
> evening's TV watching, and I was completely unable to find Stargate:
> Universe at its usual time, or anywhere near it, on its usual channel.
>
> No new episode, no rerun, no nothing. It's just plain *gone*!
>
Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Chris Judge raided
the set of SGU and totally destroyed it.
"It was total crap from the very beginning!" Stated Tapping. "The worst
parts of BattleStar Galatica, Star Trek Voyager and Lost!" Is this the
best SyFy can do?"
Anderson added "What? First they move the SGC to the freaking Pentagon?
Then the new uniforms and all that other shit? It spits in the face of all
the fans that stuck with the show for all eight seasons (the last two
without me doesn't count)."
"You're pissed, Rick? Hell, they made me into "Mr. Wizard"! Thank god
for Smallville! HAWKMAN, HERE I COME!"
Judge only said "Indeed!"
Alas, that's all that needs to be said.
Smokie Darling (Annie)
> Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Chris Judge raided
> the set of SGU and totally destroyed it.
>
> "It was total crap from the very beginning!" Stated Tapping. "The worst
> parts of BattleStar Galatica, Star Trek Voyager and Lost!" Is this the
> best SyFy can do?"
>
> Anderson added "What? First they move the SGC to the freaking Pentagon?
> Then the new uniforms and all that other shit? It spits in the face of all
> the fans that stuck with the show for all eight seasons (the last two
> without me doesn't count)."
>
> "You're pissed, Rick? Hell, they made me into "Mr. Wizard"! Thank god
> for Smallville! HAWKMAN, HERE I COME!"
>
> Judge only said "Indeed!"
>
> Alas, that's all that needs to be said.
That was cute, but I'll be there when it comes back <shrug>...
On to the person to whom you posted, who will not respond because he's
forgetting who's killfiled and who's not (as he did earlier today).
He just waits for someone who he claimed to plonk a while ago
posts....
You know... He's been told that it's gone until April or so (the way
SyFy *always* does their series anymore). He has short term/long term/
interim term memory loss. He also has no clue how to change a channel
or program a DVR.
How was your New Year's Eve? We copped out about 11:30, but as it's
just *us*, it didn't really matter.
Syvyn11
"Smokie Darling (Annie)" <Barnab...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Up with allergies, stayed up with Dick Clark. It's just sad now. As much
as I hate Ryan Seacrest, it's time to give it to him.
Michael Black
But if the old guy can't do it, and the new guy is disliked, then why not
go further afield? Instead of crowning someone who just seemed to stumble
on the job, why not make a deliberate decision about it?
Choose someone well-known and well liked. It doesn't have to be someone
current, look among older celebrities who have faded from view with the
years, but who would still be recognizable to young and old.
Maybe that doesn't work. I'm thinking Captain Kangaroo (I know he's no
longer alive) but enough time has elapsed that they young wouldn't know
him. David Hartman for some reason comes to mind, but again he's been out
of the limelight for too long to be recognizable by the young.
I did think it interesting that CTV here in Canada did not air the Dick
Clark New Year's Eve show. They have in the past, though I honestly
couldn't tell you if they did last year or not.
Actually, there seemed less interest in counting down than other years.
CTV had nothing, instead starting a movie at 11:30pm. The CBC usually has
a brief countdown of some sort, wedged in between something and something
else, one of which is usually a rerun of the Air Farce's New Year's Eve
show that gets aired earlier in the evening.
Michael
Adam H. Kerman
[Seamus idiocy snipped]
>Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Chris Judge raided
>the set of SGU and totally destroyed it.
>"It was total crap from the very beginning!" Stated Tapping. "The worst
>parts of BattleStar Galatica, Star Trek Voyager and Lost!" Is this the
>best SyFy can do?"
>Anderson added "What? First they move the SGC to the freaking Pentagon?
>Then the new uniforms and all that other shit? It spits in the face of all
>the fans that stuck with the show for all eight seasons (the last two
>without me doesn't count)."
Pretty funny stuff. However, most of Season 8, after Don S. Davis as
Gen. Hammond was no longer in the main cast and Jack had been promoted
to General was pretty awful.
>"You're pissed, Rick? Hell, they made me into "Mr. Wizard"! Thank god
>for Smallville! HAWKMAN, HERE I COME!"
>Judge only said "Indeed!"
>Alas, that's all that needs to be said.
Indeed.
Smokie Darling (Annie)
> "Smokie Darling (Annie)" <Barnabus1...@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:99507374-533b-
> > How was your New Year's Eve? We copped out about 11:30, but as it's
> > just *us*, it didn't really matter.
>
> Up with allergies, stayed up with Dick Clark. It's just sad now.
Sorry to hear about your allergies. Don't even have suggestions for
helping with that <sigh>. I have some allergy problems too, and it
seems nothing I use, regularly, works for very long.
As much
> as I hate Ryan Seacrest, it's time to give it to him.
I'm trying to think about a different celebrity (as Michael said), who
is better liked overall, than Ryan Seacrest... Someone associated
with music (not necessarily like Clark) would be good... I'm having
issues with a musician (or DJ) that was well known enough to be able
to carry New Year's Rockin' Eve (and the other nets have shown how
poorly just "anyone" can do).
Rob Jensen
HTH!
-- Rob
Syvyn11
"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote in message
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> Syvyn11 <robhor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> [Seamus idiocy snipped]
>
>>Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Chris Judge
>>raided
>>the set of SGU and totally destroyed it.
>
>>"It was total crap from the very beginning!" Stated Tapping. "The worst
>>parts of BattleStar Galatica, Star Trek Voyager and Lost!" Is this the
>>best SyFy can do?"
>
>>Anderson added "What? First they move the SGC to the freaking Pentagon?
>>Then the new uniforms and all that other shit? It spits in the face of
>>all
>>the fans that stuck with the show for all eight seasons (the last two
>>without me doesn't count)."
>
> Pretty funny stuff. However, most of Season 8, after Don S. Davis as
> Gen. Hammond was no longer in the main cast and Jack had been promoted
> to General was pretty awful.
I must be one of the few people that actually liked season 8.