Just how many ways can the Sci Fi Channel get it wrong?

3 August 2006 Rob Buckley TMINE 1 Comment

Here’s the Sci Fi Channel’s reason why Stargate SG-1 (running for 10 years and 200 episodes) is the world’s longest running science-fiction show, not Doctor Who (running for 40 years on and off and approximately a billion episodes):

Guinness awarded the title of longest-running sci-fi series in tv history to Stargate, which took the title away from X-Files (at the 203rd episode, technically). Both shows overshadow Doctor Who in that they had consecutive episodes. Doctor Who while it ran several hundred episodes, had long gaps of not being in production, far longer than a regular hiatus. The show was revived several times and I’m told one of the gaps between production was over ten years.

All they had to do was say “longest running US sci-fi series” and they’d have been off the hook, but no, they just had to start making stuff up…

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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