Posted on 04/25/2011 8:53:19 AM PDT by Immerito
Syfy acquired the rights to all 31 episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles but is pulling the plug on the 4-5 hour blocks of them after only three weeks (including tonight’s episodes) and will replace them with blocks of Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns beginning next Thursday.
Perhaps Syfy is trying to not be out sci-fied by BBC America which also airs Star Trek: TNG reruns and also just acquired the rights to air Syfy “hit” (from the SciFi days) Battlestar Galactica. Not to mention BBC America just announced a co-production deal on the UK version of Being Human, and of course BBCA will be airing Doctor Who’s sixth season beginning with the premiere this Saturday.
Syfy also announced (via Twitter) that it was moving Sanctuary from Fridays to Mondays beginning Monday, April 25.
Lena Headey fans can still catch her on HBO’s Game of Thrones…
I should have known that Syfy was working for Skynet....
http://technorati.com/technology/article/skynet-goes-active-terminator-judgment-dayapril/
April 21, 2011. Judgment day is here. It kind of snuck up on you, didn’t it?
According to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, April 19, 2011 - At 20:11 Skynet goes online, becomes self aware, and attacks us on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800 destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.
This represents an alternate future from that established by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Skynet is the main antagonist in the Terminator franchise — an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators. Skynet is rarely seen onscreen, and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems, usually a Terminator.
“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” In this television series, Sarah Connor is on the run with her son John after the events of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The events take place in an alternate timeline from that of “Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines.” Skynet was now implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. The protagonists travel in time from 1999 to 2007 and take actions to prevent Skynet’s activation.
The episodes “The Turk”, “Queen’s Gambit”, and “Dungeons & Dragons” explain that after the death of Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson and the decline of the Cyberdyne Corporation, Andrew Goode, a young intern of the company and assistant to Dyson, continued their project privately under an advance artificial intelligence chess playing prototype, The Turk, with Goode’s partner, Dimitri Shipkov. Goode was killed by Tech-Com’s Lieutenant Derek Reese, due to documentation from the future suggesting he was one of Skynet’s creators.
In the episode “Samson & Delilah” it is shown that a T-1000 infiltration unit was sent from the future to head the technological corporation ZeiraCorp as its CEO, Catherine Weaver. Weaver acquired The Turk after Goode’s death and used the company’s resources to further develop it under the title Babylon. The episode “The Mousetrap” revealed that it is also targeting its fellow cyborgs, including a T-888 known as Cromartie.
I just started watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix and am astounded by how much they ripped off Stargate Universe before Stargate Universe was even thought of. They should be ashamed of themselves.
7 episodes in and no lesbian relation-fest story yet, though.
Some reruns of “Lexx” or “Farscape” would be nice.
Replacing the cancelled SGU, since that's obviously a ratings hot-spot on Monday nights. Yuck.
Netflix customers: the whole run is available on streaming, so one more nail in the coffin of broadcast media. (Battlestar Galactica is also available for streaming, but not ST: TNG as of right now.)
Such a shame this series was canceled. The last season was so well done and from what I heard was gaining a strong following. The last episode was excellent.
Why watch it if you already know it was cancelled and left unresolved in any manner.
Hey, anyone else remember the Jaffa, Kree! ping list?
On July 1, Netflix starts streaming all the Star Trek series except for the animated one.
They canceled Farscape when it was 1st airing as it is. That is when I 1st realized Sci-Fi didn’t really care about science fiction. Now, SyFy doesn’t care AT ALL about science fiction.
I was just thinking the other day it may be time to get my Lexx out again for a couple of viewings....
LLS
Bring back Twilight Zone.
Don’t forget “Ghost Humpers”.
I hope the owners reboot the reboot of BSG.
Odd how “V” disappeared. The reviews panned it for being an attack on obama’s hopey changey bs.
Netflix has the entire series of Farscape on demand.. Enjoy.
The last episode was excellent. They have a great build up to the next season, and then the plug is pulled.
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