Maybe they’ll finally learn to make short, compact, two or three seasons long shows again – an art long forgotten in Hollywood.

Currently, everybody is trying to stretch the story out to several years, whatever it takes. Take LOST, for instance: that story is worth two seasons tops, and they are trying to make 6 seasons out of it. It’s just sick. What’s wrong with making neat, self-contained one-seasoners? Why it can work for Europeans, but not for Americans? Some of best series I’ve seen here in Europe were 12-16, some even SEVEN episodes long – and it seemed just about right. Why would anybody want to watch the same faces all over seven or ten years, still playing the same dragged out story?

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It was basically Heroes, but no one seemed to know what they had or what to do with it when it was picked up again.

RIP 4400, the most frustrating collection of wasted opportunities ever to hit TV.

Hopefully the strike will be resolved in the next month or so and they can get BSG done, or at least resolved.

What would keep them from doing a Season 5 at this point anyway? Just release the 10 or whatever episodes for season 4 and then resolve in season 5. It isn’t like Eick and Moore have anything else going on do they? If RDM were to no agree to something like this after he and his team went on strike and ruined it, he would lose a lot of his dedicated fans. They could also resolve with just a mini series too.

Just don’t bring Braga into it to have it just be a dream of Dirk Benedict’s Starbuck.

You would think some of these networks would take the hint of other shows – like BSG – and give the producers advance notice of cancellation so they can wrap up series on a good note, leaving the networks in a positive light. It just makes them look like they don’t really have their heads on straight if they drop an investment without thinking about the future trends being set. It’s no wonder sci-fi doesn’t have much success on television. Networks haven’t the faith to market it properly from start TO finish.

I don’t watch anything else on USA other than 4400, and I’m not about to start, either. Not if they drop programmes without notice. I’ve no interest in watching the ‘newer shows grow’ only to have them cancelled when money gets a bit tight. They should’ve thought about that when they got a hit on their hands. I guess they just want to wallow in mediocrity then eventually merge with some other network. Sound familiar?

I understand the economics behind it. I also know though that I don’t want to get into another show made by the SciFi network before it wraps. Having such stories murdered midstream really suck in every sense of the word.