CAPRICA
Well there are two. First, Caprica's ratings were good on Fridays and was the most successful cable show in its night let alone its own timeslot. When Caprica moved to Tuesdays this season it was up against some tough competition, Glee in a preceding timeslot, and The Good Wife and Sons Of Anarchy in its own timeslot. Second, Lack of advertising. the advertising that Caprica did get announced its return in January. It wasnt until about mid-September that Syfy announced that Caprica would return in early October. After the announcement of the date change there was almost no advertising or announcing that Caprica would come back so soon. The way the word got out was through Twitter. Alessandra Torresani, Sasha Roiz, and Esai Morales spearheaded the Caprica Is Back (#Capricaisback) campaign. flooding Twitter with statements that Caprica is Back leading it to become a trending topic.After the announcement of Caprica's cancellation there was a huge backlash on Syfy's Facebook fan page with outraged fans. (Note: there are of course going to be angry people when a favorite show is cancelled.) People were cursing Syfy, calling it the Wrestling network and the sell out network. Even prompting people to make anti SyFy posters and logos. (Such like the one above). Operation Airlock was crated as a fan based boycott of the SyFy Network until Caprica is brought back or a proper resolution is made. Suffice to say that the project was partially successful until Friday when Sanctuary aired. The popularity of Sanctuary deterred OA members from continuing their campaign.
STARGATE UNIVERSE
When The Caprica dust finally settled Syfy Decided to throw another curve ball. Cancel Stargate Universe. Now to note that when Caprica's announcement was not taken well. Stargate Universe was even worse. The messages are still flowing even to this day. When Caprica was cancelled fear struck through the SGU fanbase starting a preemptive Save Stargate Universe campaign on Twitter as well as a SGU for Season 3 campaign. Despite the impressive numbers of participants Syfy Still cancelled it citing ratings. Again the same argument can be made that Tuesday is a tough night for Cable TV. with A Glee Predecessor and Raising Hope as its biggest competitor Stargate Universe kept what can be called impressive ratings for its situation. The thing is between the Save Stargate Universe Campaign and the support from OA. Stargate Universe does have a chance to come back since earlier Joeseph Malozzi announced that Stargate Universe is a 5 season story and the fact that the campaign is a little more organized than just Operation Airlock.Save Stargate Universe had a Resurgence Event asking the fans to legally purchase Stargate Universe's midseason episode "Resurgence" providing links to all possible forms of purchase.
An interesting fact about SGU's cancellation is that No one from production knew. All of the actors, producers and writers were informed through Twitter by fans saying how disappointed they were and how sad they were for the loss completely confusing the actors. I have a feeling that that is going to hurt Syfy in a way that we do not know yet.
1 comment:
Really, Caprica had so much potential. I loved that show (I am a huge BSG fan), even if the storyline was becoming a tad boring. I thought it had improved a lot after the break. I was very sad to hear it was cancelled.
I had no idea though, that they had moved it to October!! I guess I haven't paid enough attention the last few months but I am going to watch those last few episodes asap.
Regarding SGU... I'm not sad. I thought the whole show was kind of... going nowhere. But I'm surprised how SyFy dealed with it.
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