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| 12:00 AM, 02-FEBRUARY-05 UPN Cancels Enterprise UPN and Paramount Network Television jointly announced Feb. 2 that its low-rated Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled after five seasons. "This will be the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise on UPN," the companies said. The series finale will air on May 13. When Star Trek: Enterprise ends its run, it will mark the first time since 1987 that no new Trek series will appear on the air. Enterprise becomes the first Trek series to end prematurely since the original Star Trek aired on NBC in the 1960s. All previous Trek spinoff series, including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, have completed seven-season runs. This year, new executive producer Manny Coto re-energized Enterprise's storylines with episodes that hearkened back to the original series. Last year, the series attempted an ambitious season-long story arc centering on the hunt for the Xindi. UPN said that the prequel series will have produced a total of 98 episodes. The early cancellation announcement presumably allows producers to write and produce a series finale. |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Feb 2 2005, 11:19 PM) |
| What a contrast. Here's me with the party streamers in hand and the mariachi band on standby...... :ph43r: |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Feb 2 2005, 09:23 PM) |
| along with I hope the people who originally cancelled DR WHO (never said I was nice!!!!!) |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Feb 2 2005, 11:23 PM) |
| think I better not manage to get the email address of those who made this decision, like I say may they rot in hell along with I hope the people who originally cancelled DR WHO (never said I was nice!!!!!) |
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| UPN and Paramount today jointly announced the show's cancellation. "Star Trek has been an important part of UPN's history, and Enterprise has carried on the tradition of its predecessors with great distinction," UPN Entertainment president Dawn Ostroff said. "We'd like to thank Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and an incredibly talented cast for creating an engaging, new dimension to the Star Trek universe on UPN, and we look forward to w**king with them, and our partners at Paramount Network Television, on a send-off that salutes its contributions to The Network and satisfies its loyal viewers." Paramount Network Television president David Stapf added, "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek and commend them on completing nearly 100 exciting, dramatic and visually stunning episodes. All of us at Paramount warmly bid goodbye to Enterprise, and we all look forward to a new chapter of this enduring franchise in the future." TrekToday sources report that CBS president Les Moonves himself yesterday reached the decision to pull the plug on Enterprise. Most Enterprise crew members only found out about their show's cancellation this morning. Enterprise only barely qualified for renewal a year ago, but was given a final chance by UPN to prove itself after Paramount agreed to drastically cut the show's license fee. The show underwent several major changes this year, including a move from Wednesday night to Friday and the appointment of new showrunner Manny Coto, but the most important thing didn't change - the show's low ratings. Last week, "Babel One" set a new series low for Enterprise, attracting just over 2.5 million viewers. No official details have yet been released for the final episode of the series, beyond the fact it will be written by Enterprise creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Recently, Paramount was rumoured to be in negotiations with Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) for a guest appearance on the final episode (story), although Sirtis has since denied this (story). Although UPN has now officially decided to not bring back Enterprise for a fifth season, two fan campaigns are still w**king to try and change the network's mind. SaveEnterprise.com and the Enterprise Project have combined to form EnterpriseFans.com, an organisation trying to raise money to promote Enterprise with an ad in USA Today. |
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That'd be Michael Grade. |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Feb 2 2005, 09:34 PM) |
| I was there, I have always been there for the show and always will be. |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Feb 2 2005, 11:38 PM) | ||
Unless you have a Neilsen box, it makes no difference Ken ;) |
| QUOTE (jamiearmour @ Feb 2 2005, 09:22 PM) | ||
Sorry James, didn't the band call you? They're coming to my party instead, I offered them free tequila and guacamole :lmao: |
| QUOTE (jamiearmour @ Feb 2 2005, 09:22 PM) | ||
Sorry James, didn't the band call you? They're coming to my party instead, I offered them free tequila and guacamole :lmao: |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Feb 2 2005, 11:43 PM) |
| Sadly that's not enough Ken :( |
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| This was the only Star Trek show I ever really got into. :( Having said that, I haven't seen anything since the end of S2 for numerous reasons, and am going to catch up on Channel 4, if they ever bloody show it. |
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Five seasons? Cheer up Ken, you've got another one to go. No surprises here, and in some ways the cancellation is totally justified. If it hadn't been for the fact that Enterprise traded on past glories, it would never have even got to series three. The writing was so pedestrian sometimes that you wondered how it had actually go made in the first place. That said, its one less series I've got to watch, which isn't a good thing. I have stuck with it throughout the 4 series, despite the fact sometimes it made me angry. Let its epitaph be "Enterprise......It was crappy sometimes, but crappy is better than Voyager". |
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| Berman Reacts To Enterprise Rick Berman, executive producer of the just-cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that he was surprised not by UPN's decision, but by the fact that viewers continued to tune out the series despite a marked improvement in quality, strong reviews and guest appearances by the likes of Brent Spiner. "Nobody is more surprised about that than we are here," Berman said of the precipitous fan drop-off in an interview conducted after UPN announced Enterprise's fate. "We've always seemed to have a big drop from before Christmas to after Christmas, which I've never quite understood." Enterprise attracted more than 13 million viewers in its debut, but by the fourth season, that audience had fallen to just 2.9 million. Berman added: "I think the whole network had a big drop from before Christmas until after Christmas. I am not only very proud of the shows that we've done so far for the fourth season, but the shows that we've done that haven't aired yet are undoubtedly some of the best shows that we've produced. I don't think it has to do with the quality of the show. That just might be ego speaking, but I think we've done a great job. If you look at the performance of [Star Trek] Nemesis, you see what I think was a terrific movie that did not perform anywhere near as expected. I think what's been happening with Enterprise." The 2002 movie Nemesis grossed $43 million domestically and had foreign ticket sales of $23 million, the worst performer in the film series. Berman is the man who has been principally responsible for shepherding the Trek franchise since he was handed the reins by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. "Whether you want to call it viewer apathy or franchise fatigue or any of the cute little titles that people have come up with I think it's the case," Berman said. "We've figured out that we've produced 624 hours of Star Trek over the last 18 years, and of those 18 seasons seven of them we did two shows simultaneously. It's a lot of television. And each show has had the previous shows in reruns to compete with. Climates have changed. I think you can just squeeze so many eggs out of the old golden goose." Berman and Enterprise co-executive Brannon Braga are penning a series finale that will air on May 13. |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Feb 3 2005, 08:01 PM) |
| I think the Sci-Fi Channel pretty much have the market cornered with TV sci-fi now. Galactica, should, fingers crosssed, become a great show. As long as they can hold on to Ron Moore it's difficult seeing otherwise. Then you've got the two Stargate shows, which are quickly propelling Stargate to the fore as being the sci-fi franchise of the day at the moment. It's not all doom and gloom. Look at it this way, we're one day closer to getting a decent Trek series on the air :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Feb 3 2005, 08:29 PM) |
| TOLD you before my dread fear is it may be ten years before TREK returns - if it ever does. |
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Paramount Network Television president David Stapf added, "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek and commend them on completing nearly 100 exciting, dramatic and visually stunning episodes. All of us at Paramount warmly bid goodbye to Enterprise, and we all look forward to a new chapter of this enduring franchise in the future." |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Feb 3 2005, 10:37 PM) |
| Nah, it's a matter of when Trek returns Ken, not if ;) |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Feb 3 2005, 11:47 PM) | ||
I wish I had your confidence. I think it could be ten years or more before we see it again if ever!!!!! Unless something major happens at paramount. |