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by Rick Norwood
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The fourth season of Warehouse 13 and the second season of Alphas premiere in July.
SF on TV in July 2012
Coming up in August, the Season One Finale of Continuum,
the Season Two Finale of Falling Skies, and the Season Five Finale of True Blood.
The number of people watching genre tv shows is falling drastically. Even
the most successful, Once Upon a Time, dropped from 12 million to 9
million viewers, Touch from 12 million to 4 million. Falling Skies
from 5 million to 4 million. Supernatural from 5 million to less
than 2 million. Warehouse 13 from 3 million to less than 2
million. Alphas from 2 million to just a little over 1 million, and,
weakest of all, Continuum from less than a million to less than half a
million. The only genre shows to actually gain viewers are those
on HBO. Game of Thrones and True Blood both started
with about 2 million viewers and now have more than 4 million viewers.
Look for a crossover between Alphas and Warehouse 13 in August.
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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. Visit his web site at comicsrevue.com. |
Falling Skies is the best sf on tv this Summer, with
likable characters and excellent special effects. I am disappointed that it,
like all of the other alien invasion tv shows before it, doesn't seem to be going
anywhere. I had high hopes, after the Season One Finale, that Season Two would up the
ante, that we would see major changes in the nature of the conflict and that we would
learn more about the aliens. Instead, at least so far, the aliens are essentially
the Americans, making excuses for their invasion of a third world planet, and the
2nd Massachusetts is essentially the Viet Cong. I guess that makes the hero of the
show like the Doonesbury character Phred.
Sunday, July 1
Continuum TBA
 
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