by Rick Norwood
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The creators of V and FlashForward hoped the shows would come back
strong after their long hiatus, and ABC gave them a lot of ad play, especially
during Lost. The viewers weren't buying.
Smallville and Fringe have been renewed and will return in the Fall.
There are a lot of genre shows airing in April, including the season and probably
the series finales of V and FlashForward, and the
return of Riverworld, which last aired as a made for tv movie in
2003. I suspect it will be years before there are this many genre shows on the air again.
SF on TV in April 2010
Thursday, April 1
Friday, April 2
Tuesday, April 6
Thursday, April 8
Friday, April 9
Tuesday, April 13
Thursday, April 15
Friday, April 16
Saturday, April 17
Sunday, April 18
Tuesday, April 20
Thursday, April 22
Friday, April 23
Saturday, April 24
Tuesday, April 27
Thursday, April 29
Friday, April 30
Coming in May are the season finales of Smallville, Lost,
and Fringe. In June, there will be the season finale of Stargate
Universe. Eureka will be back in July. And The Phantom is coming
to SyFy. Press releases describe The Phantom as a "comic book" character, evidently being
unfamiliar with the comic strip. (Comics Revue, which I edit, is serializing the
classic Phantom story "The Return of the Sky Band" in color.)
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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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