Did the Sci Fi Channel Cancel UFO Hunters?
Sci-Fi TV News, UFO Hunters TV Series — By Nix on February 28, 2008
What happened to The Sci Fi Channel’s original TV series, UFO Hunters? I recall seeing the pilot not all that long ago, but then — nothing. Did it get cancelled? The guys at io9.com were wondering the same thing, and uncovered these two possibilities — it was either cancelled for low ratings, or the Guv’ment forced The Sci Fi Channel to stop the show before they could expose the truth!
Um, yeah. We’re gonna go with the former. Someone posted this on the Sci Fi Channel’s message board as a possible explanation:
During the week of the pilot’s first airing, it received a 0.9 household rating. I’m not sure how that translates to amount of viewers, but Sci Fi usually cancels any show that gets below a 1.0 in the household ratings on average! The following week’s ratings were also posted and the second airing of the pilot wasn’t even in Sci Fi’s top 10 (it must have gotten below a 0.9 rating for that week) . So, the chances of Sci Fi going ahead with the series MAY be slim!!
But this conspiracy nut had another opinion:
I have a feeling the government made sci-fi cancel the show (just a theory). Sci-fi would probably never admit to this… even if they really were threatened to do so.
The last show I saw was where a patient was put into a hypnotic state and revealed A LOT of information about what happened when he was abducted. As we know, hypnotism helps to reveal what is bothering a patient in their sub-conscious which is true. This is probably why the government felt threatened by the ufo hunters team on sci-fi.
I’ve been watching ufo hunters on the history channel. But they all probably work for the government and that’s why they never reveal any conclusive evidence which is why they are still showing it because they have nothing to lose.
Like I said, I’m going with the former explanation.
Although I’m a big fan of sci-fi (that’s obvious, isn’t it?), I’m not a big fan of conspiracy TV shows and movies, because invariably they’re so derivative and predictable, and ends up being a big waste of time. My favorite UFO shows are the more serious ones the History Channel does every now and then that actually uses reason instead of paranoia and wild speculation to question the mystery of UFO.
And from what I saw of the Sci Fi Channel’s UFO Hunters, it’s was basically a carbon copy of Ghost Hunters — except, er, with guys chasing UFOs instead of ghosts. I mean, come on, at least hire a new production team, guys!
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I think what happened is that History Channel had the rights to the name of the show and Sci-Fi wasn’t aware of it, because the same exact show name is on history channel and my tivo just switched to record it there instead, on the season pass, The show itself is completely different than the pilot shot for Sci-Fi which was a very poor attempt I must say, I mean that did everything like Ghost hunters from filming and investigating
to the reveal at the end with the Tv monitor ect. I was like man this is BS. Glad History Channel’s show is much better
I don’t think you are in position to call anyone a ‘conspiracy nut’ on their theory of what happened to UFO Hunters on Scifi Channel, you’re not exactly the brightest bulb on the fixture yourself.
Instead, take what some may think as a conspiracy theory as they are, unsubstantiated theories about something, nothing more, so in that sense all unsubstantiated theories are on the same starting point.
omg i love me some ufo i watch the tv show all the time i just love it i want to be a ufo hunter when i grow up cause its like so interesting to me i wish somebody cam just come and knock on my door and take me with them to do the studies cause i know theres other creatures out there besides us humans man i love you guys yall are so brav and yall just be doing ya’ll jobs man i cant wait till i be one
I sure hope they didnt cancel UFO Hunters. Thats the only show i have ever watched every week.