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Dark Skies
1996 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Science FictionFantasyDramaActionAdventure
Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this proposed competitor following a pitch from producers Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman. The series debuted September 21, 1996 on NBC, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel. Its tagline was "History as we know it is a lie."
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Hmm. Netflix may be shooting themselves in the foot a bit here, but frankly I much prefer "too many series are cancelled before hitting their stride" where the shortsighted decision is being made based only on viewership and budget, than the previous situation where cancelled shows never developed an audience due to being broadcast in a bad time slot, or because they were repeatedly bumped from their time slot[0] (eg. by sporting events going into overtime) with missed episodes never repeated, or by episodes being shown out of order[1].
At least now shows are cancelled based on their intrinsic viewership. Short-sighted cancelations are still an unfortunate problem, but this is still a huge improvement over the previous status quo.
A bit more concerning to me is that Netflix's "throw the spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks" approach is starting to lean a bit more in the direction of "same but different" clones of other shows with a twist to the setup, even for shows based on existing properties.
But, so it goes.
[0] eg. Dark Skies
[1] eg. Firefly, where the pilot wasn't broadcast until the end of the season.