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Post #450997

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Bingowings
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CAPRICA: The Resurrection!
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30-Oct-2010, 11:19 AM

I can't see it happening, it's possible that they may re-tool the final five (tee-hee) episodes to tie them in with Blood And Chrome (which would explain why they are holding them back and delaying the release of the DVD sets).

The whole thing reminds me of Parliamentary Trains, it goes back to the 19th Century. When a train company wanted to close a line but avoid the expense of closing the line so deliberately made the service unworkable to justify the closure.

The BBC used the same tactics to get Doctor Who off the air in the eighties despite it's continued popularity (running it against soaps, cutting the budget etc, until the viewing figures dropped low enough to justify the cancellation...but ironically not the loss in VHS and DVD sales which made more money for the BBC than foreign broadcast sales).

SyFy will probably not last out the next few years, possibly NBC have been using the same tactics with SyFy as a whole (what with the re-branding and diminishing amount of science fiction on the channel, it's brand identity is so watered down that it's ripe to be turned into a totally different channel and/or sold off).