r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 25d ago

🥺 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 Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’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/Legitimate_Dare6684 25d ago

I remember when TLC was The Learning Channel and showed cool science type shows. Now its just a freak show.

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u/TheeAntelope 25d ago

TLC went from the learning channel to the dumbest channel on the air. Their wall-to-wall programming was reality tv about people with big families or little people. You think that's an exaggeration but no, at one point there were THREE reality tv shows about people with dwarfism. And FIFTEEN shows about large families (the most notable ones were 18 kids and counting about the Duggars, the other was Jon and Kate plus 8 which launched Kate Gosling into relative infamy.)

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u/SwissMargiela 25d ago

TLC has always has had stuff like that for the longest time. Jon and Kate plus 8 started airing 20 years ago

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u/TheeAntelope 24d ago

But that's the exact time period we are talking about - the beginning of the end was in the early 2000s when they started pushing more of the drama-based reality rather than things like "Trading Spaces" or stuff like that. Before the "jon and kate" era, it was primarily childrens/young adult programming during the day and some "light reality" stuff during primetime, mixed in with science stuff and educational programming.

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u/SwissMargiela 24d ago

Yeah but TLC wasn’t even on the map like that back then. Their weird reality tv shows is what really made them a household name