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UPDATE WEDNESDAY PM: Syfy has settled on one extra episode of Eureka to wrap things up. That’s final. I hear Syfy executives called the cast today to apologize for the conflicting decisions over the past week, which included a six-episode final-season order, followed by no-final-season announcement and then the additional episode pickup. Word is the six-episode order was overruled by the new post-merger management as the series is getting expensive after 5 seasons and has enough episodes in the can (19). I hear most affected are some crew members who turned down job offers last week when Eureka was picked up for 6 more episodes only to see that order rescinded. 
PREVIOUS MONDAY PM: Last week, we scooped Syfy’s plan to end its series Eureka with a final six-episode Season 6 order. Back then, Syfy wouldn’t even confirm that the series was ending, saying in a statement that “although we do not have a commitment beyond six episodes for the sixth season, we are hopeful that this will not be the end of the franchise.” Well, that has now changed. Not only is Eureka being canceled, Syfy has also reversed its decision on ordering a final six-episode season. I hear the change of heart was made high up based on financial reasons. Eureka, starring Collin Ferguson and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, has had OK ratings, with its current Season 4.5 premiering last month to 2 million total viewers, 893,000 of them in the adults 18-49 category. Created by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia and produced by Universal Cable Prods, Eureka is now in production on its 13-episode Season 5 order. With filming coming to an end in only two weeks, I hear the producers are begging for a way to properly end the show. Here is Syfy’s statement:
After painstaking consideration, we have had to make the difficult business decision to not order a season six of Eureka. But Eureka is not over yet. There is a new holiday episode this December and 12 stellar episodes set to debut next year, marking its fifth season and six memorable years on Syfy. The 2012 episodes are some of the best we’ve seen, and will bring this great series to a satisfying end. We are very grateful to Bruce Miller and Jaime Paglia, their team of incredible writers, and an amazing cast and crew who have consistently delivered a series we continue to be very proud of. We thank the fans for their support of this show and know they will enjoy its final season in 2012.
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That’s crap. A 6 episode season would be perfect in their crazy scheduling minds for a “summer season” in 2013 as the “final season”. They’re missing out on a chance of milking their cow one more time (they’ve been doing it this long, why stop now??)
Well that sucks. Why the sudden change of heart? I mean, yea the whole time travel thing kinda sucked (ok they never should have killed off Ed Quinn), but this season was showing a lot of promise!
“Why the sudden change of heart?”
The coming economic nightmare (didn’t hear about the S&P and the Stock Market Crash?)!
The First thing that gets cut is the ad budget.
Shows like this are tertiary buys at best.
OK , so if it`s a money thing cut the wrestling and other crap that don`t belong on this channel and there you go, simple.
WWE is a very different kind of Syfy resident, its revenue agreement with the channel and the deal for the show is a completely different animal than a scripted show.
Like comparing apples to iguanas.
wrestling is a scripted show, get a clue fanboy.
Didn’t you hear? Comcast wants to put a Tommy Lee reality show on Syfy(!) so something had to go, and they didn’t care if it was one of the few top rated shows left on that network. Cable is a dying breed, so NBC Uni gets bought by dinosaurs who still think Tommy Lee is celebrity. Sad all around.
so, just when I stop thinking that the people who run this channel might be coming back to their senses, the do something to convince me they are staying in the same bi-polar place. I admit Eureka has had some weak
moments, but it’s charm makes my week. I watch very little on Sci-fi anymore. Friday’s, that’s it. Sic-fi to me
is not weird frozen food, wrestling, or really bad reality shows. I would rather watch endless repeats of old
series that were cancelled prematurely like Farscape or the Invisible Man than the psi yreality tripe geared to
12 year olds. You get something good and you waste it. You’ve done it every time. Schedule changes, hiatus, after hiatus, anything to shake your audience and then cancel what you’ve killed. At least now, I have it on DVD.
That’s all about right. Every time SyFy gets a series I like they scrape it. I use to watch SyFy most of the time now if they have any thing worth watching it’s not very often. Right now there is nothing on it worth watching. I was excited when saw Eureka on now hearing it will be the last upsetting.
I agree that the show lost a bit of a Spark when they killed off Stark, but that happened because Ed Quinn wanted to leave the show.
I can’t believe they’d cancel this show. I’ve always enjoyed it, even the episodes that were obviously not their best. It was always entertaining and made you smile. (Except when they killed Stark, I cried like a baby)
The show is consistently fun, I could totally see them bringing Stark back in some fashion; there is plenty of story left to tell. Talk about being blindsided; Comcast sucks.
I agree, I think letting Ed leave was a huge mistake! The banter between he and Jack was classic.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! This makes me mad in my angry place…
Blame the Tea party!
Crap now there gonna give Warehouse 13 a spin off based on H.G. Wells and I’m gonna love it but its gonna already be hated because of the Eureka fans.
I’m a Eureka fan and I like Warehouse 13.
Stay classy, Skiffy.
OH NOOOOO!!! I LOVE EUREKA!!! If it’s a “financial” situation come up with creative ways to bring in more revenue… you can easily bring in much more with sponsors, etc… don’t do this to us!!!
Dont ask SyFy to make Eureka do more product placement!! Remember the Degree signage everywhere including the backs of the lab coats and that episode where they made two suns and the only thing that saved the town was Degree deodorant…that was a painful time in my life as a Eureka fan
If product placement can bring the show back, who cares. It was almost meta in a way. It didn’t take away from the storyline either. Just amusing.
I actually stopped watching that season. There was a moment when guest star Frances Fisher was charged with delivering ad message dialogue in one episode that was so blatant that I turned off the set and complained to the channel.
This was a fair show that did it’s best. It had a change of creative team and the show has taken some odd twists and turns that made it rather dull. Eureka never was able to create enough steam to keep viewers interested. Besides, the science got silly, they needed better science advisement for the writers. Not surprised with this, but I hope SyFy replaces it with a good original scripted show.
You would think that after cancelling Farscape on an unresolved cliffhanger, which Henson later managed to get made anyway — no thanks to Skiffy — as the 4-hour Peacekeeper Wars miniseries and the unceremoniously stupid ways and reasons that Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe were both cancelled, Skiffy would have learned by now that when they don’t respect the shows even when they have to end, they aren’t respecting the viewers.
Or, let me put it to SyFy’s execs and beancounters in financial terms that they know that we the fans know is the only thing that they *want* to comprehend: if you can afford to program the most irredeemable shit on Saturday nights, you can waaaay more than afford to fund the six or so episodes it would take to wrap up Eureka in the way that the makers of the show want it to end.
pretty much par for the course where this show is concerned, just look that they did to the fans last winter, the new season was supposed to start in January or march then nothing until July. This is how SYFY treats us. I guess maybe this is another reaso n why the show had such a small showing at comiccon
I was at the Eureka panel at Comic-Con. Two-thirds of the way back — and I even had to take a bathroom break at the beginning of the panel. Their panel didn’t have a small showing — it was full.
This is the second time Syfy has shot themselves in the foot. They had a series called Riese: Kingdom Falling. That they bought, and promptly buried.
Science Fiction requires a budget. When you run a channel called: The Science Fiction channel, you really ought to be aware of this fact. I say this because Eureka has an audience. Like any science fiction television show, it has taken time to build that audience and now that you have it, you are going to cancel the show? I must ask: are the people who run syfy real science ficion fans? or, just “investors”? You know, people who think of syfy as “product” and nothing else? Shame, if that’s so. Time and again, my science fiction hopes have been dashed by this channel.
They are owned by Comcast now, correct? They are investors.
Investors are not even people anymore: its retirement funds, placement funds and so on. They are mindless entities run by greedy mindless bast..
No one cares about product anymore, It’s only about how much money the heads of corporations can put in their wallets while giving progit to greedy fund managers.
Welcome to America where you het what you want!
Comcast are owners, not investors. They now run things at NBCU. The cable shows (USA-Bravo-Syfy) pull in more revenue than NBC, has consistently been in the red.
The only experience Comcast had in showrunning was the G4 network. Which explains them canceling the highest rated and best reviewed show on their network and replacing it with a Tommy Lee reality show.
Oh no, to be clear, the people making the decisions are mba drones who have ZERO clue about creativity or story-telling. So sad that this is the way tv is turning …
Get ready for the next Great Advertising Apocalypse!
While I have never seen EUREKA, this is clearly another example of how Syfy Network is without a doubt one of the most ineptly run and mismanaged entities in the Universal Emprie. this network could literally be twenty times more profitable than it is. It needs to be run by people who understand the appeal of the genre it allegedly caters to. And surprisingly, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that expensive. But as long as this network run like it is the USA Network, then it will continue to suck. And honestly, you can’t seriously be telling me you can’t crank out a few wrap up episodes for financial reasons. Please. When will these people be fired?
Perhaps they wouldn’t have a ‘financial situation’ if they’d skipped the horribly irritating rebranding to the moronic Syfy and the even more irritating chnages in programming (Wrestling? Really? That’s enough to put me off the channel alone.) Or hey, maybe they should have kept some of their better shows instead of vomitous crap like Mansquito 7?
I agree- I’m so tired of seeing the SYFY logo up all the time. and the wrestling thing-WTF. You go to watch something and its not on- wrestling is.Its an added surprise- not a good one though What the hell does that have to do with Sci-fi ?
i agree 100% They are mindless greedy and what the hell dose wwf have toi do with the format of the syfi anyway..my family use to watch it not anymore
I’m right there with you, but the sad, unfortunate fact is that “vomitous crap” gets better ratings. Until they can actually get a decent 18-49 rating with shows like Eureka we’ll be stuck with wrestlers making quest appearances, horrendous product placements, and Albino Robot Shark Apocalypse.
I so agree with you on the wrestling and the bad movies. I am a long time SyFy watcher, but not any more.
ScyFy has become to science fiction what MTV is to music.
Ever since the “re-brand” of ignorance, I stopped watching the channel. And science fiction has no fan like me. I do watch Warehouse 13 on DVD but that’s it.
I can’t stand the channel. It is horrid. I will not watch it unless it becomes a sci fi channel again. And it was a few short years ago I had the channel ALWAYS on.
What drek.
Cancelling a show without giving it a proper ending? Yep, that sounds like Syfy alright.
I’m not the biggest fan of the show itself, but treating the fans of it this way is becoming par for the coourse for a channel that seems to know nothing about how to treat fans and repeatedly demonstrates that fact over and over.
People should just stop watching Syfy period and then it can see how it’s ‘financial’ position changes.
The show definetely had high and low points. The first season was significantly better than anything else – but the last season has seen some great potential. A shame they decided to cut the cord early on this one.
I love Eureka. I like Haven. But I LOVE Eureka. The other shows? No.
Eureka was a pretty mediocre show; just be happy it lasted this long. On the networks it would have lasted maybe 4 episodes. Here’s to hoping SyFy changes their name back to English and maybe ropes Ron D. Moore in to run another show…if they don’t cancel it to make room for another hour of buff-to-the-point-of-nasty men beating each other up.
i’m amazed Syfy let another show go without a proper ending. First Stargate Universe and now Eureka.
The fans were already pretty unhappy with Syfy after they essentially cancelled the Stargate franchise.
You know, people just need to get over Stargate Universe. It was a bad series that I could barely sit through. Heck, it got so bad I stopped watching halfway through the final season. SGU was a poorly executed attempt to turn the Stargate franchise into Battlestar Galactica and it failed.
I loved SGU. I watched every episode and hope it can may still come back. I watched much of SG:Atlantis and a lot of SG:TOS, but skipped a lot, too, when it got boring. Less popular bad.
It’s not just universe. They planned movies for Atlantis and SG-1. THOSE were successful series, yet, they can’t fund those movies with the $$ they are apparently saving?
You SOB’s! how many sci-fan do you actually wanna piss off? They usually have long memories.
Way to go, SyFy. You jerks just can’t stop meeting yourselves in the Alps, if you get my drift. People liked this show, they watched it and loved it, and you pulled the plug for more tripe. Nice one, guys. You’re just another MTV waiting to happen.
The clueless suits at Comcast prevail. They greenlight crap shows for boradcast, but can a decent cable program that might actually outdraw some of their new crop of offerings.
At least allow the producers to try and wrap up ome of the loose ends. There are too many season-long arcs for this to be ended abruptly.
What a minute. What am I thinking? These assholes don’t give a damn what the viewers like. It’s just a decision made at the bottom of a spreadsheet.
What do you expect from a channel the produces such classics as Sharktopus and Mega Piranha. But then again, they are going up against Hillbilly Fishing.
What do you expect from a channel the produces such classics as Sharktopus and Mega Piranha. But then again, they are going up against Hillbilly Fishing.
I love this show. But good news on another holiday episode. Last years was my favorite of the whole season. Hope they get the same writer to do that one again.