Sci-fi on NBC — Yippeee!
NBC seems to get it! They canceled most of its drama series for next season, and added in their place lots of scifi series: a Heroes spin-off (Heroes ripoff), the return of the Bionic woman (BionicWoman ripoff), Journeyman (time travel, Quantum Leap ripoff) and Chuck (spy sci-fi, Jake 2.0 ripoff). Their only sitcom is “The IT Crowd” (ripoff, or the original UK series?), which is about a bunch of IT professionals! Get the theme? NBC tries to appeal to geeks! Even at the expense of not being original.
NBC announced a few weeks ago that this season was one of their worst in all the decades the network exists, with Heroes being their only show that floated above average. They figured, ‘if we try to get as many geek series as possible, our chances of creating franchise shows with appeal on the internet crowd that will provide us with free advertising, business will get better’. I would have done the same thing! Kudos to NBC.
Now, where can I get more space/ship-based sci-fi?