Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:15 pmI would think that unless NCS is handled as badly as it was in the UK, the series has every chance to do well. This is reliant on a showing at a reasonable time on a reasonable channel with reasonable promotion. If those are done right, then NCS should have an easy time to do better in the US than UK.
I would think that NCS would have to do spectacularly well in order to warrant more seasons. A station like Nickelodeon or Sci-Fi may just be happy with 26 episodes and perhaps a cut of the DVD sales. Why invest in an expensive series unless everyone is watching. (If NCS does pretty good - it may increase chances that Lightspeed is picked up in America or maybe even co-funded by Sony!!)
Two huge negatives - first off, the US Sony deal seems to have stalled. They were keeping an eye on how well the series did on ITV and since it didn't show anything positive in the ratings, Sony and whoever gets it may be reluctant in showing it at prime times. Look at Doctor Who - it is a ratings sucess and the US still has not picked it up. (of course I think if handled well, NCS can be accepted by more Americans than Doctor Who as it seems to fit into the US TV formula much better than Who.)
The other negative has to do with the last Gerry Anderson series to make it over here - Space Precinct. I followed the progress in America and was disgusted at how the series was dropped into the worst time slots possible. All this postive hoping for a reasonably good show (in my opinion) and all for nothing as the series failed to perform (at 2 in the morning!!).
NCS is far from dead as new life may come out of Japan and/or the US and Canada.
KP
I would think that NCS would have to do spectacularly well in order to warrant more seasons. A station like Nickelodeon or Sci-Fi may just be happy with 26 episodes and perhaps a cut of the DVD sales. Why invest in an expensive series unless everyone is watching. (If NCS does pretty good - it may increase chances that Lightspeed is picked up in America or maybe even co-funded by Sony!!)
Two huge negatives - first off, the US Sony deal seems to have stalled. They were keeping an eye on how well the series did on ITV and since it didn't show anything positive in the ratings, Sony and whoever gets it may be reluctant in showing it at prime times. Look at Doctor Who - it is a ratings sucess and the US still has not picked it up. (of course I think if handled well, NCS can be accepted by more Americans than Doctor Who as it seems to fit into the US TV formula much better than Who.)
The other negative has to do with the last Gerry Anderson series to make it over here - Space Precinct. I followed the progress in America and was disgusted at how the series was dropped into the worst time slots possible. All this postive hoping for a reasonably good show (in my opinion) and all for nothing as the series failed to perform (at 2 in the morning!!).
NCS is far from dead as new life may come out of Japan and/or the US and Canada.
KP
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