Re: NBC Universal is dividing TV studio

Jack Bohn wrote:
> Mac Breck wrote:
>
>> Found this when I was looking just now:
>>
>> List of Sci Fi Channel (United States) programs
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sci_Fi_Channel_%28United_States%29_programs
>>
>> and
>>
>> Sci Fi Channel (United States)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel_%28United_States%29
>>
>> ...and under that check out:
>> *Non-science-fiction programming*
>
> You know, I see no mention of "Crossing Over With John Edwards"
> on these pages.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but....

It's "Crossing Over with John Edward" and it should be there.
http://www.johnedward.net/

John Edwards was one of the Democratic candidates for President.
http://johnedwards.com/

While the political candidate wasn't my favorite, I still don't want to
mix him up with John Edward.  :P



> Having some time, I've put their First Run series in
> chronological order and hunted down selected Second Run series,
> the miniseries (marked with +), and some original movies (-):

What is the * for?


> 1992
>  *Sightings
If it's the one I'm thinking of, didn't care for it.  Seemed like cheap
filler.

> 1997
>  *Mission Genesis
Don't remember it.

> 1998
>  *MST3K (2004)
Loved it.

>  *Sliders (2000)
Really liked it, all except for the last seasons where almost all of the
main characters left the show.

>  *Welcome to Paradox
Don't remember it.

> 1999
>  *Farscape (2003)
Really liked it.

>  *First Wave (2002)
Liked it.

>  *G vs E (2000)
Really liked it.

>  *Crossing Over
<spit>

> 2000
>  *Exposure (2002)
Don't remember it.

>  *The Invisible Man (2002)
Liked it.

>  *The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Liked it more than The Invisible Man (2002).

>  *Lexx (2003?)
Couldn't stand to watch it.

>  +Dune
Never been a fan of Dune.  Not my cup of tea.

> also began marathoning one show in the morning through afternoon.
> 2001
>  *Black Scorpion
awful crap. Its only worth is as MST3K fodder.

>  *The Chronicle (2002)
I could watch it. (Never saw all of the eps.)

>  *The Outer Limits (2002)
Liked it.

>  *Crusade
When I saw this in first run on TNT, and wasn't used to the characters
or the music, I thought it was so-so.  After I watched the series a few
times, and got to know the characters better, and see the little
nuances, and got how the music set the just the right alien-foreign tone
for the show, I really liked it.  The music is too loud in places, and
the end "music" from "Ruling from the Tomb" is awful, but sans
TNT-Atlanta interference, I could see loving this show as much as
Babylon 5.

> 2002
>  *Stargate SG-1 (2007)
Really liked it.  Great characters!

>  *Brimstone
Absolutely loved it.  It had me from the first few scenes of the pilot.

>  +Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Never watched it.  Could have, but wasn't interested.

>  +Taken
Bloated.  Watching it was a chore.  Isn't it mandatory to mention Steven
Spielberg in the title?  This was advertised *to death*, so much that it
probably rivals how many times The Eagles' "Heartache Tonight" was ever
played, and that was a song I got thoroughly sick of hearing.  To this
day, I change the radio station when I hear "Heartache Tonight".
Wouldn't watch Taken again if somebody paid me.

>  -start of Sci Fi original films
>  -Legend of the Rangers
95% of the movie was awful.  It's either predictable, or is "I can't
bear to watch these scenes." awful.  The only positive standouts were
*Dulann*, Na'feel, Firell and David Martel (when he's not being Mr.
Exposition.).  G'Kar seemed "off."  Making this instead of Crusade was a
huge mistake on Sci-Fi's part.  Made me long for Crusade.

> 2003
>  *Battlestar Galactica (c)
Started out looking promising, but went steadily downhill.  Petty,
trashy, like a daytime soap set in space.  Sold my DVDs.

>  *Scare Tactics (2006)
<spit>

>  *Tremors
Kinda liked it, in a guilty pleasures sort of way.

>  +Children of Dune
See Dune above.

>  -Riverworld
Never watched it.

> 2004
>  *Andromeda (2005)
Couldn't stand Sorbomeda.

>  *Ghost Hunters (c)
Never watched it.  It's sort of a do***entary, right?  I can take this
kind of stuff as a fictional story, but not as a do***entary.

>  *Mad Mad House
<spit>

>  *Proof Positive
Don't remember it at all.

>  *Stargate Atlantis (c)
Really like it.

>  *Tripping the Rift (2005)
Never watched it.

>  +5ive Days to Midnight
Never watched it.

>  +Legend of Earthsea
Never watched it.

> 2005
>  *Firefly
Similar reactuion to that I had with Crusade.  When I first saw it, I
was put off by the twangy western score and sixguns, but on subsequent
viewings I liked it more and more.

>  +The Triangle
Never watched it.

>  -Man With the Screaming Brain
Never watched it, but based solely upon the title, this is one I might
look up.

>  -Man-Thing
Never watched it.

> 2006
>  *Doctor Who (c)
Never watched it, any of it.

>  *Eureka (c)
Never watched it.

>  *ECW (c)
<spit>

>  *Who Wants to be a Superhero? (c)
Never watched it.

>  *Heroes
Never watched it.

>  *Chuck
Saw one ep.  Looks OK.

>  +Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
Never watched it.

>  +The Lost Room
Never watched it.

> 2007
>  *The Dresden Files
Really liked it, although I wish it's been closer to the books.  I'm
reading "Grave Peril" right now, and am enjoying it much more than
either "Storm Front" or "Fool Moon",

>  *Flash Gordon
Never watched it.  Flash Gordon, in general, isn't my thing.

>  *Painkiller Jane
Never watched it.

>  +Tin Man
It's in my Netflix queue.  I'd watch it solely because Zooey and Neal
are in it.

>  -Earthstorm
Never watched it.

>  -Highlander: The Source
Never watched it.  Heard it was bad.



> It appears your sweet spot was 2001-2002 (MSTK apparently still
> in reruns, although only one season of it had been produced by
> SciFi).  According to:
>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.mst3k/browse_thread/thread/a7cf6eb86bae64df/3e3faae9224ce93c?lnk=st&q=%22bonnie+hammer%22+-stupidity#3e3f
aae9224ce93c
>
> Bonnie Hammer became Senior Vice President, Sci-Fi Channel
> Programming in 1998.
>
> It would be a lot more work to track down the scheduling of
> "Third Run" programming, that is to say, the old stuff; either
> pulled from syndication like Hulk, Twilight Zone, or Trek, or
> never syndicated because of short length like Earth 2 or
> Otherworld.  As jayembee notes, there's stuff some people haven't
> seen.  (And where else are ya gonna see it?)  I'm particularly
> sorry to have missed all but an episode of Probe, and this
> Mission Genesis looks interesting.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls?  They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.