The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people’s minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires ‘came out of the coffin’ on national television.
Sounds really boring, right … ?
The intro ends at 1:30, then you’ll see the first 2,5 minutes of the show. It should get you hooked – it for sure got me hooked.
CBS has done it again. Yet another awesome TV show that went from good to AWESOME has been cancelled. They did the same with Jericho, which ended very much premature with a “stressed†ending (leaving tons of loose ends for some other media company to catch up on – if CBS/20th would ever sell the rights.)
Is the world really not ready for TV shows that has so many levels and dimensions like The Unit and Jericho – or are the TV companies merely just intrested in extremely short term income and not willing to invest money in a TV show that involves viewers in so many more ways than TiVoing the show and fast forward past the commercial breaks?
Anywho, buzzfocus.com reported May 20th that CBS has officially cancelled the show, and that it will not return for a fifth season:
The Unit was quite a unique show for network television today. In its stead will probably be some mindless drivel; either some ridiculous reality competition or another forensics crime show.
But that’s it: no more awesome tactical missions. No more homefront drama. We’ll never get to see any resolution between Jonas and Molly. We’ll never get to see new leadership of the squad as Colonel Ryan was promoted without a successor. There was so much more story to tell and a 5th season could’ve served to creatively end the series, the right way. But those 69 episodes will live on in syndication (rumor has it) and DVD so at least we’ll be able to relive the good times the show brought us.
What I think about it? Well …
Ever since the cancellation of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, I’ve been going through the old seasons of SG-1, waiting for the next Stargate show – Universe.
The series was greenlit in August 2008 and is scheduled to debut as a two- or three-hour movie and then begin regular weekly airings on SyFy (formerly SciFi Channel) in the United States in October 2009. Sky1 will air the series in the UK & Ireland in the autumn of 2009.
The show started filming back in february 2009.
The announced main cast is Robert Carlyle as Dr. Nicholas Rush, Justin Louis as Colonel Everett Young, David Blue as Eli Wallace, Brian J. Smith as Lieutenant Matthew Scott, Jamil Walker Smith as Master Sergeant Ronald Greer, Alaina Huffman as Master Sergeant Tamara Johansen, and Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong.
Stargate Universe will be set on the fictional Ancient ship Destiny, which was part of an Ancient experiment to seed the galaxies with Stargates millions of years ago. While a first ship was sent to seed the galaxies with Stargates, the Destiny was to follow a pre-programmed mission to explore these galaxies until the Ancients ascended and left the ship unmanned. In order to reach this ship, an address would have to be dialed consisting of nine chevrons, a possibility that had been unknown in the previous Stargate series.
The series begins when a team of soldiers and scientists from present-day Earth step through the Stargate to find the Destiny after their base is attacked. They are unable to maneuver the ship or even return to Earth, but they can use the Stargate to visit planets when the Destiny comes into the range of another Stargate and stops for brief periods of time. Life support including air supply is also a problem at first. There will be three major deaths in the pilot episode and one suicide by episode six. The writers have discussed the possibility that each season represents a voyage of the Destiny through a different galaxy.
Stargate Universe is written to appeal to both veteran fans and newcomers. It will be firmly entrenched in pre-established Stargate mythology without relying on it too often. Although it will still have the familiar Stargate themes of adventure and exploration, the show will focus mostly on the people aboard the ship. SGU will be more serialized than its predecessors, but the writers attempt to resolve each character story within the episode. The industry describes the show with the buzz words “dark and edgy”. According to Robert C. Cooper, the essence of the story is “that sort of fear and terror of a tragedy combined with the sense that there is hope for us in the basic ways in which human beings survive”. The increased levels of drama will still be balanced with humor to avoid pretentiousness. The differences between good and evil will be less apparent, as the ship will be populated with flawed and unprepared characters who were not supposed to go here. According to Brad Wright, the show will “hopefully explor[e] the truly alien, and [avoid] the rubber faced English-speaking one”. There will be aliens, but not a single dominant villain race like on SG-1 and Atlantis.
I can’t wait. 