{"id":1015,"date":"2009-04-15T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2009-04-15T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:26:12","slug":"is-science-fiction-on-tv-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/is-science-fiction-on-tv-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is science fiction on TV dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big SCI-FI fan, and I like to watch a series or two every now and then when I get home form hard day at work. The problem is, I don&#8217;t have a thing to watch at the moment &#8211; all my favorite SCI-FI series got canceled! Oh course you Nielsen Ratings and American Lost loving audience! And course you SciFi channel for rebranding into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/\">SyFy<\/a>. Why???<\/p>\n<p>History of cancellation of my favorite shows goes something like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henson.com\/fantasy_scifi.php?content=farscape\">Farscape<\/a> series got canceled in 2002<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/series\/ENT\/\">Star Trek Enterprise<\/a> series got canceled in 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/stargate\/\">Stargate SG1<\/a> got canceled in 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/atlantis\/\">Stargate Atlantis<\/a> got canceled in 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a> got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/memorial\/\">canceled<\/a> in 2009<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To compensate, I had to switch to mainstream, so at the moment I watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/24\/\">24<\/a> (Jack Bauer, I love you!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/\">Heroes<\/a> (laugh, but I really like the show!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Medium\/\">Medium<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/Drama\/copsandcrime\/LawandOrder\/default.html\">Law and Order UK<\/a> (I love English detective shows), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">Doctor Who<\/a>. But it&#8217;s only a matter of time when those shows will get canceled too.<\/p>\n<p>Something I can&#8217;t wait to see is newly announced Stargate series called Stargate Universe:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WcQeNKVkHKM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WcQeNKVkHKM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Am I missing something maybe, do you have a SCI-FI show to recommend? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big SCI-FI fan, and I like to watch a series or two every now and then when I get home form hard day at work. The problem is, I don&#8217;t have a thing to watch at the moment &#8211; all my favorite SCI-FI series got canceled! Oh course you Nielsen Ratings and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}