At 18:32 18-2-01 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>The final season of B5 was aired on cable rather than broadcast here, and
>the cable company now owns the rights to rebroadcast the earlier ones, so
>the reason you have not seen the last season may be that your network may
>not have made a deal with the cable company.
Unlikely. The cable companies here aren't into buying rights to old
series/seasons/episodes/etcetera; they only pass on the signal from the
networks to the customers.
It has probably more to do with the number of people watching the show;
it's more profitable to air a show that attracts 1 million viewers than a
show that attracts only a few hundred thousand viewers. Considering that,
I'm surprised they even show SF at all.
I also wonder what the networks think about which people watch SF. I'd
expect SF fans to be educated people with an interest in, among other
things, science and technology. The commercials should then be for things
like cars, organizers, computers, that kind of stuff. But what do we get:
commercials for detergents, food, pantyliners, tampons and related products...
>[Ironically, as I am writing this, this evening's episode of "Futurama"
>has been interrupted
Ah yes, yet another show that suddenly disappeared a few months ago. :(
Jeroen
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