THE TRACK RECORD OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL......"STARGATE SG-1 CANCELLED....."ANTI-GRAVITY ROOM" CANCELLED....."JOHN EDWARD" CANCELLED....."THE CHRONICLE" CANCELLED......"FARSCAPE" CANCELLED....."TREMORS" CANCELLED......"DREAM TEAM" CANCELLED...."SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE" CANCELLED....."BLACK SCORPION" CANCELLED....."SCIOGRAPHY" CANCELLED....."SCI-FI VORTEX" CANCELLED....."INVISIBLE MAN" CANCELLED....."G VS. E" CANCELLED....."WILLIAM SHATNER'S FULL MOON FRIGHT NIGHT" CANCELLED...."FIRST WAVE" CANCELLED....."FTL NEWSFEED" CANCELLED....."NEW OUTER LIMITS" CANCELLED......"POLTERGIEST-THE LEGACY" CANCELLED....."TOTAL RECALL-2070" CANCELLED......"THE WAR ROOM" CANCELLED......"SCI-FI BUZZ" CANCELLED......"TRIPPING THE RIFT" CANCELLED......"SLIDERS" CANCELLED....."WEEKLY SCI-FI NEWS WITH CHASE MASTERSON" CANCELLED...."MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000" CANCELLED....."VR-5" CANCELLED........"TIME TRAX" CANCELLED......."THE FLASH" CANCELLED......"NOW & AGAIN" CANCELLED......"M.A.N.T.I.S." CANCELLED......."FANTASY ISLAND" CANCELLED......"TIME COP" CANCELLED........"SPACE PRECINCT" CANCELLED......."MAX HEADROOM" CANCELLED......."THE MAGICIAN" CANCELLED....."SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN" CANCELLED........"BIONIC WOMAN" CANCELLED......"HULK" CANCELLED......"SWAMP THING" CANCELLED......"WONDER WOMAN" CANCELLED......"THE IMMORTAL" CANCELLED......"VIPER" CANCELLED......"SPACE RANGERS" CANCELLED.........RONALD D. MOORE'S "GINO" CANCELLED (??)........CANCELLATIONS INCLUDE SCI-FI CHANNEL ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING AND SYNDICATED SERIES SHOWN ON SCI-FI CHANNEL....RONALD D. MOORE'S "GINO" HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED YET....ALTHOUGH IN THE WORLD OF TELEVISION, RONALD D. MOORE'S "GINO" IS TECHNICALLY REGARDED AS A FAILURE.....ON THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE NEWS, THE SUMMER PREMIERE OF "GINO HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL OCTOBER 2006 WITH A RUMORED 20 EPISODE COMMITMENT FROM SCI-FI CHANNEL....AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT "GINO" WON'T GET CANCELLED WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN MONTHS, STALLION_CORNELL HAS A FLYING ELEPHANT LIVING ON SWAMPLAND THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SELL YOU.....IRONIC, ISN'T IT? SCI-FI CHANNEL CANCELS ALL OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMS ON ITS SCHEDULE, YET IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCIENCE FICTION CHANNEL....

"THUNDERBIRDS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE........."VAN HELSING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE HULK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CAT IN THE HAT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."JOSEY & THE PUSSYCATS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."FLINTSONES" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIVA: ROCK VEGAS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."HOWARD THE DUCK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."PITCH BLACK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIRUS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."KING KONG" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."SERENITY" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."DUDLEY DO-RIGHT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CURIOUS GEORGE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."THE THING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CAT PEOPLE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."FLASH GORDON" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."LEGEND" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."JAWS 3-D" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CONAN THE BARBARIAN" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."SILENT RUNNING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."WATERWORLD" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE LAST STARFIGHTER" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."DOOM" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."BLOODRAYNE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."BORDELLO OF BLOOD" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."DEMON KNIGHT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."GHOST STORY" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."SCORPION KING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."PSYCHO"- (1998) FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....

WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CANCELLED ALL OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AND REPLACED THEM WITH NON-SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, THEY NEGLECTED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE NETWORK TO SOMETHING MORE FITTING. "THE HORROR CHANNEL", "THE USA NETWORK FILM VAULT CHANNEL", "THE INFOMERCIAL NETWORK", "THE HORROR/ACTION CHANNEL", OR "THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORK" WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE TITLES. IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE THAT BONNIE HAMMER, WHO AT ONE POINT IN HER ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER, HELMED THE LIFETIME NETWORK, UTTERLY DECIMATED THE SCIENCE FICTION CONTENT OF THE SCI-FI CHANNEL. HER LATEST ECCENTRIC EXPERIMENT (RONALD D. MOORE'S "GINO"), IS A TRUE ODDITY IN TELEVISION PROGRAMMING. ADVERTISED AS A SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAM WHEN IT CLEARLY ISN'T, AFRAID TO ADMIT THAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAM, YET MOORE AND EICK TAKE OFFENSE WHEN THE PUBLIC DOES NOT REGARD IT AS SCIENCE FICTION, "GINO" REFLECTS THE TYPICAL SCHIZOPHRENIC PROGRAMMING PRACTICES OF BONNIE HAMMER WHO HAS PROVEN IN A MOST SPECTACULAR MANNER, HOW THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE AND LIFETIME NETWORK PROGRAMMING POLICIES DO NOT MIX!!

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TRACK RECORD WITH FANTASY MOVIES ISN'T MUCH BETTER. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS USUALLY RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WHEN THEY TRY TO MAKE LIVE ACTION MOVIES BASED ON COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. THE "HULK" BORED AUDIENCES TO DEATH BARELY 10 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE.....TURNING "VAN HELSING" INTO A SUPERNATURAL "RAMBO" WAS TOO RIDICULOUS FOR WORDS....."CAT IN THE HAT" PROVED THAT 5 YEAR OLD KIDS WEREN'T READY FOR "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" HUMOR......"JOSEY AND THE PUSSYCATS" WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A "CHARLIE'S ANGELS" RETREAD BASED ON A 1970 CARTOON THAT NO ONE REMEMBERED......THE "FLINTSTONES" MOVIES PROVED THAT REBUILDING "BEDROCK" ON A STUDIO BACKLOT WASN'T ENOUGH TO DRAW IN THE FANS OF THE CARTOON.....SOME PROPERTIES SHOULD BE LEFT IN CARTOON FORM, WHICH "ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" PROVED......"HOWARD THE DUCK" WAS GEORGE LUCAS'S FIRST CAREER FLOP. HOW FITTING THAT LUCAS CHOSE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FOR THAT MOMENTOUS OCCASION......"PITCH BLACK" WAS "PITCH DULL"....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" DISAPPEARED FROM THEATERS FASTER THAN "FINAL FANTASY-THE SPIRITS WITHIN"......AND "VIRUS" PROVED THAT WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS MADE A MOVIE FOR THE SUMMER OF 1999, NO ONE CAME AND WENT TO THE BEACH INSTEAD....AS THE RECENT FAILURES OF "KING KONG" AND "SERENITY" PROVE, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS REMAINS AS DELIBERATELY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WHAT THE AUDIENCE WANTS TO SEE AS EVER BEFORE....UNIVERSAL STUDIOS COULDN'T EVEN TOUCH GERRY ANDERSON'S "THUNDERBIRDS" WITHOUT CRASHING AND BURNING AS WELL....

THE MANAGEMENT OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS AN OPENLY HOSTILE REGIME TOWARDS THE VIEWING PUBLIC, SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, AND THE "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" COPYRIGHT. THE ENDLESS GRAVEYARD OF CANCELLED TELEVISION SHOWS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AS WELL AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ENDLESS BOX OFFICE FAILURES INDICATES THAT THIS IS A CORPORATION THAT DELIBERATELY LOST ITS WAY IN MAKING RATIONAL BUSINESS DECISIONS. ONE CAN ALWAYS HOPE FOR MIRACLES, AND THE PERMANENT FINANCIAL DOWNFALL OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS A DREAM SHARED BY MANY.