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Babylon 5.1
by Rick Norwood
SF on TV
The executives at the SciFi Channel showed their usual sensitivity by canceling Stargate SG-1 the day before the cast and crew party celebrating the airing of the popular 200th episode. These are the same people who fired Hugo award winning editor Ellen Datlow and cancelled SciFiction. Not to mention the people who changed Ursula K. Le Guin's dark-skinned Earthsea characters to white characters because "those people" are so hard to work with. And then announced that their version of Earthsea, in which all the women are doormats, was just what Ursula K. Le Guin wanted. SciFi channel has not yet decided whether to air all of the episodes of Stargate SG-1 that have already been filmed, but undoubtedly any unaired episodes will be on the DVD. MGM wants to keep Stargate SG-1 alive, but the SciFi Channel says no, and evidently their contract allows them to prevent the show from continuing on another network.
On TV in September
Friday, September 8
Stargate SG-1 "Memento Mori" by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "McKay and Mrs Miller" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 15
Stargate SG-1 "Quest I" by Alan McCullough
Stargate Atlantis "Phantoms" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 22
Stargate SG-1 "Company of Thieves" by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "The Return I" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 29
Stargate SG-1 "Quest II" by Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "The Return II"
Copyright © 2006 Rick Norwood
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Morjana
http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick231.htm
(Please follow the link for the complete column.)
Babylon 5.1
by Rick Norwood
SF on TV
The executives at the SciFi Channel showed their usual sensitivity by canceling Stargate SG-1 the day before the cast and crew party celebrating the airing of the popular 200th episode. These are the same people who fired Hugo award winning editor Ellen Datlow and cancelled SciFiction. Not to mention the people who changed Ursula K. Le Guin's dark-skinned Earthsea characters to white characters because "those people" are so hard to work with. And then announced that their version of Earthsea, in which all the women are doormats, was just what Ursula K. Le Guin wanted. SciFi channel has not yet decided whether to air all of the episodes of Stargate SG-1 that have already been filmed, but undoubtedly any unaired episodes will be on the DVD. MGM wants to keep Stargate SG-1 alive, but the SciFi Channel says no, and evidently their contract allows them to prevent the show from continuing on another network.
On TV in September
Friday, September 8
Stargate SG-1 "Memento Mori" by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "McKay and Mrs Miller" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 15
Stargate SG-1 "Quest I" by Alan McCullough
Stargate Atlantis "Phantoms" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 22
Stargate SG-1 "Company of Thieves" by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "The Return I" by Martin Gero
Friday, September 29
Stargate SG-1 "Quest II" by Paul Mullie
Stargate Atlantis "The Return II"
Copyright © 2006 Rick Norwood
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Morjana
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