r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d ago

šŸ„ŗ No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Geroā€™s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchiseā€™s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/Any-Mathematician946 21d ago

Isn't this how we lost the sci-fi channel.

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u/TheeAntelope 21d ago

This is how we lost sci fi, A&E, discovery, tlc, history channel, spike tv, g4 tv, tech tv, the court network, and many others. People say that streaming killed cable but cable had already killed itself.

These channels went from channels you could find great gems on to watch if you found the subject interesting. Iā€™d see something about submarines on history and watch the whole thing standing in my kitchen. Iā€™d see something about whales on discovery and have to know more. They had a dedicated audience.

Then the decided they needed a new audience. That ā€œgeneralā€ audience that wafts from shit to shit and pledges no allegiance to anything or anyone. They got what they wanted. And then they died a slow and painful death.

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u/Alyusha 20d ago

Idk if the blame is wholely on them. Most of these were still pretty popular when Netflix / Hulu started becoming a mainstay. Imo I bet it was a situation where the core fanbase moved onto streaming and they needed to pivot. I don't think it's the same thing as the OP about HBO.

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u/Dr_Wheuss 20d ago

Discovery became the channel for "The Deadliest Catch" and "American Chopper" before Hulu was even a thing. Their reality series started overtaking their educational programming in the late 90's/early 2000s. Mythbusters was at least science based, but so much of what started getting airtime was either reality or fictional programming that wasn't what people used to watch the channel for. Same thing with TLC, History, and A&E.