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12 Monkeys coming on SYFY (SPOILERS)
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Originally posted by pakar View PostThere is all ways something interesting upcoming on syfy, but it never comes, and i'm tired of waiting for it.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostTrue, but as of late they have at least been talking a better game, with The Expanse, Childhood's End, 12 Monkeys and other projects. I too will wait to see what actually airs, but at least it sounds like they might be trying to get back to what they used to be.
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Originally posted by pakar View Post
But all the execs seem to care about is live +SD, so they are ignoring a good chunk of their viewers.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostThat is something that network execs and advertiser execs need to start wrapping their heads around. You can't just count Live+SD anymore. Many people time shift their viewing to fit their schedules. Particularly when you're aiming for an audience with above average familiarity with tech. I've got entire seasons of shows on the DVR that I will watch when I get time.
But all the execs seem to care about is live +SD, so they are ignoring a good chunk of their viewers.
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Originally posted by Ian-S View PostMainly because anybody not watching live will skip through the ads, which makes those numbers irrelevant to advertisers.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostYou still have to watch the screen when you're zipping through the ads, and if an ad for a product that I'm in the market for appears, I can stop it and watch the ad. If there is nothing I stop it for, then they lose nothing, 'cause I would not have bought anything that was advertised anyway.
Syfy does have quite a few good things on the horizon, but I am skeptical about them putting the money into them that would be necessary to do them justice. That trailer for The Expanse did not impress me at all, so these days I'm wishing all of those projects would go to Netflix, Amazon or HBO instead.
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Originally posted by ecgordon View Post
Syfy does have quite a few good things on the horizon, but I am skeptical about them putting the money into them that would be necessary to do them justice. That trailer for The Expanse did not impress me at all, so these days I'm wishing all of those projects would go to Netflix, Amazon or HBO instead.
The problem is that syfy right now is the only channell which will do space sci fi. No other network or cable channell is interested in that.
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If by "space show" you mean most of the action taking place on a space ship you might be right. But SPIKE is producing Red Mars, based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, and FOX studios have optioned Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, although it it too soon to know if it will be produced any time soon or what network might buy it.
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You don't have to spend a ton of money to be good. 50+ years of Doctor Who ought to settle that question.
Haven is very good. So is Continuum. (although SyFy bought it from another producer). So They CAN air good shows.
What SyFy seems to do is to allow the fear of budget costs dictate the stories they tell.
Take "Ascension" for example. I sort of think that started out to be what it was advertised to be, but some damned bean counter ordered the story be rewritten so that it wasn't really set in space. This is what makes for poor science fiction.
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Originally posted by ecgordon View PostIf by "space show" you mean most of the action taking place on a space ship you might be right. But SPIKE is producing Red Mars, based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, and FOX studios have optioned Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, although it it too soon to know if it will be produced any time soon or what network might buy it.
Anyway for 2015 the only channell which we are sure it will have a space show (good or bad) and after almost 4 years without a spave show , is syfy. I'm not saying i like it, but it's the truth.
Postscript: as for HBO, amazon yes finally hbo is doing sci fi with westworld and nettfix with sense 8 and i hope amazon will do The man in the high castle so itseems that we will finally get good sci fi from other channels too. But let's be cautious untill they will start ( i'm reading for sense 8 for more than a year now and still hasn't happen not to mention the case of space 2099)Last edited by pakar; 23 January 2015, 12:11 PM.
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I'm wondering why Syfy is making the next episode of 12 Monkeys available On Demand. Do they like the show enough they want to promote it and aren't too worried about the live ratings? I don't know if this will happen every week, but this morning I watched the third episode, and in spite of a major mistake during several scenes in Haiti, I am still liking it.
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