I saw this in TV Guide and confirmed it via the Internet, Primeval, the great BBC America SF show, is being cancelled after this current season. The reason given for the cancellation, high cost of the show. Good ratings and well received but it costs too much.
And what sucks is the fact that series 3 is going to end on a cliffhanger which will remain unresolved for the near future. There is some discussion that a feature film may get made to tie up the loose ends. I think that the BBC owes us at least a miniseries to end the show properly, what bad form to cancel a show and leave it unresolved. SyFy did this to Farscape, at least they brought that show back as a miniseries to end it properly.
What bothers me is that good ratings are not enough to keep shows on the air. The production costs are playing a bigger and bigger role in what the networks are deciding to air. CBS cancelled Without a Trace and the Eleventh Hour (8 and 11 on the season ratings chart) due I believe to the costs associated with these shows. So what are we going to get now, cheap programming that draws high ratings? And you know what that is, reality TV crap! Yes, lets cancel Reaper and Primeval and have more crap like Wipeout, Big Brother, or the Bachelor/Bachelrette.
The other rant is the news that Claire, played by Hayden Panettiere, is going to have a girl-girl kiss with one of her college roommates on Heroes next season. Is the ratings that bad that they have to do this in order to get the fan boys to tune in for a thrill? Anybody who is that hard up that they need to see this, plenty of porn on the Internet that covers college girl experimentation. I just don't know why they have to add this gratuitous stuff to a show that used to be entertaining without that.
Oh well.
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