I thought The Prisoner was boring, stopped watching after the first hour. I just didn’t care about anything going on. I’ll wait for the full mini series to play and then if it’s any good I’ll finish it. Got better stuff to watch today than two hours of Prisoner.
Dollhouse, that show wasn't any good and people didn't care for it. Like Kara said, when reruns are beating you it's time to go.
The 2 best episodes of Dollhouse were the episode that was only on the DVD about the future and the one with the hot Aussie chick. I liked Dollhouse but I knew it would not last. It was no Firefly. And speaking of Firefly, I don't know if anyone watches Castle besides me but in the Halloween episode, Nathan Fillion is wearing his browncoat costume. Its a really cool and funny scene for Firefly fans.
And actually Eastwick is doing a Medium and might be moved to Lifetime for a second season. Wish they did that with Dollhouse.
And Love me some Farscape. Before BSG, it was favorite sci-fi show. I guess I know what'll get myself for Xmas
"Deep down inside, I think we all had a little soft spot for the late Patrick Swayze, and the undisputed high point of his career is this shockingly good action film about a gang of bank-robbing surfers."
High point in what sense? In terms of critical or box office I would think Ghost or maybe Dirty Dancing, and if you're talking bad-assery, then Road House.
Oh, please let The Vikings be a double feature with The Long Ships, starring Richard Widmark (?!) as a Viking con man wearing a truly inapppropriately short tunic and Sidney Poitier (??!!) as a Muslim prince with a bouffant.
love Castle. But I watched the Halloween episode and I thought he was dressed as Edgar Allen Poe. Did I miss something? Did he wear a second costume elsewhere in the episode?
They did put House on on Friday night. And it was a rerun. And it got better ratings than Dollhouse got in that same timeslot the week before.
Other shows do well on Friday. Numb3rs has always been on Friday and while I don't know if it is considered a hit, it doesn't seem to be in danger of cancellation any time soon. And Scifi Friday is a tradition on Syfy. Always has been.
Kara S
The House rerun wasn't a one night thing, I think they've been doing it since they took Dollhouse out.
This is from two weeks ago:
"FOX reruns continued to outperform the original schedule of Brothers, Til Death and Dollhouse which averaged a .8 adults 18-49 rating in their last outing. Last night FOX averaged a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating between 8pm-10pm so the House and Bones reruns are still doing about 50 percent better."
This week House did better numbers again. Dollhouse was dead last I think almost every Friday and it wasn't doing well in the 18-49 bracket.
Oh and CBS won the 18-49 bracket last Friday night.
Dollhouse was weak, it wouldn't have done any better on any night cause people just didn't care for it. I hate Fox but they did give it a shot plus they are showing all the episodes and I believe Whedon will be able to work in a series finale. That's better than what Terminator got.
Honestly, Dollhouse is no worse than Fringe. And Fringe is surviving because it's on a night that doesn't have heavy competition by anything. Put Fringe in the Dollhouse Friday night slot, and it'll crash and burn as well.
The smart move would have been to pair Fringe and Dollhouse on Thurs. nights, move the abysmal Lie To Me to Friday nights with whatever show they wanted to burn off before it. Remember, it only took Fox 15 years to pair similiar shows on Sunday nights (now known as Animation Domination). Considering that Dollhouse and Fringe are their only two sci-fi programs, it might have been the more prudent move to pair them together rather than saddle them both with crappy lead-ins/outs.
What do you mean Fringe is on a night that doesn't have heavy competition? I thought Fringe was on Thursdays at 9:00 pm? You got CSI, Grey's Anatomy at that time slot which are hit shows with over 13 million viewers and you also got the NBC comedy line up of The Office/30 Rock. Did they change the show?
And Fox already tried pairing up their sci fi shows last season when Terminator/Dollhouse hooked up and that didn't work.
TKay, I rarely take much notice of which network a show is on except to know which channel to program my VCR for. I like shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and various cable netorks. I also watch Supernatural though I think that's the only CW show I watch.
One of the shows I like is Numb3rs. I'm between 18 and 49. If you don't like it, tough.
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Farscape - better than sliced bread (unless you are trying to make a sandwich). Anybody who hasn't seen it yet, give it a try.
It's not to everybody's taste. Some people apparently couldn't get past the puppets, refusing to see them as characters rather than special FX. But in this era of CGI characters, that may be less of a problem.
Dollhouse - Fox gave it plenty of chances. Friday night is fine. They know ratings are generally lower on Fridays and take that into account. But it was beat out by a rerun of House. More people wanted to watch a rerun of House than a new episode of Dollhouse. That says something profound.
Stargate Universe - they did a cracking episode of science fiction last ep, now they are going back to body swapping drama about relationships? How disappointing.
Kara S