FANS OF THIS SHOW SHOULD WRITE TO SCI FI NOW!!, Let's SAVE the show!! Options

[knight1024]

All of you who like this show should write to the Sci Fi Channel NOW!!! Sci Fi said that it was only a pilot for a potential series (obviously, depending on ratings and fan reviews for a green-light) . Yes, they do have a website that mentions the "upcoming series" (which is conflicting with their press release), but I just noticed the ratings for the show as posted on the Sci Fi Wire. During the week of the pilot's first airing, it received a 0.9 household rating. I'm not sure how that translates to amount of viewers, but Sci Fi usually cancels any show that gets below a 1.0 in the household ratings on average! The following week's ratings were also posted and the second airing of the pilot wasn't even in Sci Fi's top 10 (it must have gotten below a 0.9 rating for that week) . So, the chances of Sci Fi going ahead with the series MAY be slim!!

I believe that many people were confused about when and where it was going to premiere: 1) The premiere was moved a week earlier than was advertised on Sci Fi, their website, and various TV guides - I only found out about the new premiere date by chance of reading a certain website the very day that it premiered! If I hadn't read it, I wouldn't have tuned in until the next week. And 2) The History Channel premiering their series with the same name on the same night and timeslot didn't help matters! I think many viewers may have been confused, thinking that both shows were one and the same. I know that I was confused! I watch both the Sci Fi Channel and History Channel on a regular basis, so when I saw the advertisements for both shows on both channels, I thought that I was mistaken about the show airing on Sci Fi. (I know that everyone has already gone over all of this, but it bares repeating. )

I know that some viewers didn't like this show for various reasons, but I liked it much better than History Channel's show. (I like the Hist. Ch. show too, but three things bother me about THAT show: 1) The constant zooming in and out of the camera focus during the entire show to look artsy-fartsy. It looks extremely unprofessional and is annoying!! ; 2) The cases are ALL extremely old "cold cases" and any evidence that MAY be left behind after so many years is inconclusive (or there is no evidence) ; and 3) The lead investigator (the older man - publisher of UFO Magazine) is always blinking his eyes hard and rapidly. Maybe he has a medical condition that he can't help, but it irritates me to watch him! ) . I think that Sci Fi's show needs a fair chance of at least several episodes to evolve and get better. I've waited for a long time (years) for a weekly UFO investigation show, like this potential series, to be made and now it may be in jeopardy of never airing again. That ****** me off!!

So, all of you who liked the pilot, should help save the show by writing to the Sci Fi Channel and telling them that you liked it and want the series to go ahead. Send a letter or an e-mail to them right now before they decide on it (someone on this board said that they would decide THIS week - don't know if that is true) . You all can make a difference! Also, suggest a new night and time for it so that it won't go up against the Hist. Ch. show anymore. Maybe Friday nights after a Stargate SG-1 rerun would be a better timeslot for the show?? And please, if you did NOT like it, then don't write Sci Fi. After all, if the show does continue, those of you who DON'T like it can just not watch it, right? The rest of us will be happy to tune in.

Thanks.

-Mike