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For instance, nobody who bought it through Amazon counted towards SyFy's numbers even though they certainly counted towards the profitability of production. The
by jjoonathan 9y ago
For instance, nobody who bought it through Amazon counted towards SyFy's numbers even though they certainly counted towards the profitability of production. The people who actually finance production (not SyFy) said this:
> "... given the commercial and critical success of the show, we fully plan to pursue other opportunities for this terrific and original IP ..." (emphasis mine)
so to my uninformed sensibilities SyFy dropping the show seems more like a distribution hickup than an existential threat. At least I hope that's the case.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoTwo days after that (i.e. last night), it turned out that sets are being scheduled for deconstruction. So it is really an existential threat at this point (if they tear down the sets, it'll add a big up-front cost for any party that would like to pick the show up in the future).
- jjoonathan 9y agoThat does sound serious. There must be something I don't understand about the SyFy relationship -- I'd think that the company who owns and finances the show would decide when to tear down the sets and that they'd want to do it after shopping the show around. Too bad, I liked the show.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt does sound as if Alcon knew it was coming, tried to shop around in secret before, didn't succeed, and wrote the current announcement to sound like they haven't already given up on the show. I hope I'm wrong about this.
- jjoonathan 9y agoYep, me too.