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y won't SF pick up RED DRAWF?
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Joseph DeMartino
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Re: y won\'t SF pick up RED DRAWF?
If Sci-Fi can run Crusade from time to time with 13 episodes, they could run Red Dwarf with 36. The problem, as pointed out before everybody got into knee-jerk Sci-Fi bashing, is that BBC America already has the exclusive cable rights to the show. Sci-Fi could no more run Red Dwarf than F/X could run Babylon 5. (Or Sci-Fi run ST:TNG, for that matter.)
Part of what limits SFC is what they can get. Somehow I don't think they'd be "de-emphasizing" outer space quite so much if they'd been able to out-bid TNN for the Trek series reruns. Instead they would have build their channel around Trek as the centerpiece. Given that TNN had deeper pockets, they've had to try to find another "identity" for the network.
And Sass, quit yer whinin'.
I don't even get the Sci-Fi Channel anymore, much less BBC America. They aren't even options on my cable system. (BTW, why in the world would it cost you "$100 a month" to get BBC-A? Cut the cable, girl, and buy a satellite dish. I was getting over 100 channels, plus local stations, for under $50 a month with Direct TV, and had fewer reception problems with it in three years than I've had with Adelphia cable in three months.)
Regards,
Joe
If Sci-Fi can run Crusade from time to time with 13 episodes, they could run Red Dwarf with 36. The problem, as pointed out before everybody got into knee-jerk Sci-Fi bashing, is that BBC America already has the exclusive cable rights to the show. Sci-Fi could no more run Red Dwarf than F/X could run Babylon 5. (Or Sci-Fi run ST:TNG, for that matter.)
Part of what limits SFC is what they can get. Somehow I don't think they'd be "de-emphasizing" outer space quite so much if they'd been able to out-bid TNN for the Trek series reruns. Instead they would have build their channel around Trek as the centerpiece. Given that TNN had deeper pockets, they've had to try to find another "identity" for the network.
And Sass, quit yer whinin'.
I don't even get the Sci-Fi Channel anymore, much less BBC America. They aren't even options on my cable system. (BTW, why in the world would it cost you "$100 a month" to get BBC-A? Cut the cable, girl, and buy a satellite dish. I was getting over 100 channels, plus local stations, for under $50 a month with Direct TV, and had fewer reception problems with it in three years than I've had with Adelphia cable in three months.) Regards,
Joe
LondosHair
Regular
Re: y won\'t SF pick up RED DRAWF?
*ba-dum-bum*
Because it's a "space/aliens theme" and because it would get good ratings.
*ba-dum-bum*
G Kar of the Kha Ri
Regular
Re: y won\'t SF pick up RED DRAWF?
So far I've only managed to catch a small handfull of episodes.... maybe 2, but I've read the two novels! And I really want the DVDs. Perhaps this weekend...
So far I've only managed to catch a small handfull of episodes.... maybe 2, but I've read the two novels! And I really want the DVDs. Perhaps this weekend...
