by Rick Norwood
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The executives at the SciFi Channel showed their usual sensitivity by canceling Stargate SG-1 the day before the
cast and crew party celebrating the airing of the popular 200th episode. These are the same people who fired Hugo award
winning editor Ellen Datlow and cancelled SciFiction. Not to mention the people who changed Ursula K. Le Guin's dark-skinned
Earthsea characters to white characters because "those people" are so hard to work with. And then announced
that their version of Earthsea, in which all the women are doormats, was just what
Ursula K. Le Guin wanted. SciFi channel has not yet decided whether to air all of the episodes of Stargate SG-1
that have already been filmed, but undoubtedly any unaired episodes will be on the DVD. MGM wants to keep Stargate SG-1
alive, but the SciFi Channel says no, and evidently their contract allows them to prevent the show from continuing on another network.
On TV in September
Friday, September 8
Friday, September 15
Friday, September 22
Thursday, September 28
Friday, September 29
Coming in October, season three of Battlestar Galactica.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
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