They brought this upon themselves.

So MST 3-K ratings were too low. Like anyone watches Upright Ciztizen Brigade for more than 3 seconds.

So if they could drop Dark Skies and the Burning zone we could still have MST 3-K at a decent hour.

I love MST3K! Why do they have to cancel it just because of some fools who think the ratings are too low?

In defense of the channel, I would have to say the shows First Wave, Farscape, Highlander, Sliders (First few seasons), and SeaQuest DSV (First season) are ok. However, I agree that the shows you mentioned should be dropped for earlier viewing of MST3K.

But they still don't have to cancel Mystery Science Theater 3000!

The Kitchen Sink of DEEP HURTING

Poulterguist the legacy is sci-fi.
They could cut 6 saturday night lives time sloghts and have engoth time for MST.

Come on everyone vent!

Well, I vented, and look what happened!

Ratings don't mean anything anyway, since they only come from some random homes. All you need is a loud minority of people to hate a very good show to Screw over a majority.

I am sad and disappointed about the cancellation, of course, but I am not angry. I would've been angry at Comedy Central when they cancelled it, but I didn't know the show existed back then. I am not angry at Sci-Fi, because of their relationship with BBI. BBI is disappointed, but they aren't angry. I agree with BBI. I would love to see new shows, but ten years is long for any show.

The evil Bonnie Hammer cancled our show. We have risen up, but to no avail. This is a network fight we cannot win, my friends.
This woman is famous for putting more, upon more hours of.....ughh.....professional wrestling on USA. Anybody who sees entertainment in that is bound to hate a classy, well written, hilarious show like ours.

To Ben Jackson: Ten years is a long time, you're right. However, ten years is nowhere near long enough for mst3k. I see the show as having a Saturday Night Live quality. What I mean is that that show features all different performers, and writers than it did in its inception. It has been around for well over 20 years and is stil going on strong. If our show could finds "its" network, than it could go on forever, with new performers an writers as time goes by. Comments anyone?

While I could spend at least 17K finding nits in pro wrestling..... Also the Guys who own SciFi own Pax TV and USA so attack them too.
Yes MST does have a SNL quality, and its a lot more funny than SNL could ever hope to be.

So if any Media Mongul is reading this, Pick up MST, and pick up the Nitpicker Guides as well.

What's a "triade"?

It's a triple Kool-Aid (TM). I guess it's 3 times as sweet too.

The reason Sci-fi chose to cancel MST3K was because it made their original movies look bad. Some of them deserve to be MSTed...

If it were up to me, MST3K would last until they run out of cheesy movies to make fun of. Unfortunately, there just plain aren't enough TV executives who 'get it' to keep MST3K going until it reaches that point.

You know, there ought to be a special channel for series that are 'acquired tastes'. Series that are dropped by other networks because their executives just don't understand them. Of course, this would require that those running this hypothetical channel would have to be very open-minded...

I'd make that channel, if I had the cash. Some of the line up would be MST3K,and Get Smart.

There was this one speaker at my school a few years ago, that said that there would be some sort of TV database that would let you watch any TV show at any time. Let's hope this guy was right and in a few years we can watch MST3K without having to be _^_%_ed around by TV executives.

Unfortunately, I'm sure the networks would do all they can to nip this 'TV database' in the bud. If someone could watch any show at any time, how would those networks make any money?

Of course, MST3K has more problems than just executives who 'don't get it'. There's also the fact that the rights to show certain movies can expire, and thus certain episodes can't be re-run until those rights are renegotiated. Of course, Sci-Fi channel did not have the rights to any of the Comedy Central episodes, so right now, videotapes are the only way to see any of those episodes again.

The networks are dumb. They didn't thibk cabal, Internet, satalite, VCR, Game Consol, Web TV would be a problem.

The bastards decided to do the single most thing that enrages us more than anything next to cancelling the show: during Part's the clonus horror's ending credits, a SFC guy's voice came on telling us to vote on our favorite Alien Nation Episode. If I didn't value human life, or fear leagal reprocussions, I would bomb the USA Networks to hell and back! With the guy who cut into the MST3K credits dieing first!

The Sci-Fi channel should be blasted not so much for axing MST (which, I think, was just as much the decision of Best Brains as it was the Sci-Fi channel) but for continually degrading their programming every year, passing off the cheeziest horror flicks as sci-fi, and other shows just as unwatchable. I can still remember when they used to show way-cool reruns like The Invaders . . . only Quantum Leap and (hacked-to-pieces)TOS are still worth watching in primetime . . . I understand they still show good reruns in the morning hours, when I never get a chance to see them . . . oh, sci-fi channel, to what depths you have fallen!

It's like I said. Since much of the Sci-Fi channel's content isn't much better than the movies Mike and the riff on, MST3K was embarrasing the Sci-Fi Channel. There just wasn't room for both cheesy movies and a show that calls attention to how cheesy certain movies are.

Oh, how I hate the Sci-Fi channel.

It churns out and hypes rubbish like First Wave and Farscape, while cancelling brilliant pieces of work like Mystery Science Theater 3000.

To quote (or very closely paraphrase) Joel at the end of "Manos: The Hands of Fate:"

"Alright, everyone choose someone you want to punch."

This is why Sci-Fi channel is showing less and less reruns of classic TV sci-fi shows. They are embarrased to have shows from the 60s and 70s put their original products to shame. That's why the only classic rerun they feel safe in showing any more is Lost in Space. Even that puts their stuff to shame, IMHO.

Yep, that's why the idea of the Nazi/Jewish Network didn't work. Can't have a show that points out how bad something is on a channel that want's to cover up how bad it's shows are.

I rarely watch the Schlock-Fi channel any more these days, but the other day I caught a piece of their latest idiocy, a show called "Crossing". (I think the title is right.) It's one of those deals where this medium supposedly contacts the dead loved ones of audience members and relays messages to and from them. The guy on this show is so obviously a phony, and I find it incredible that anyone could be fooled by his transparent techniques for a second. This is the kind of puerile crud they replaced MST3K and other shows with?

What kind of order is the Sci-Fi channel showing their reruns in? Last week, they showed "The Touch of Satan", a mid-ninth season episode. This week was "The Horror of Spider Island", which I think took place almost near the end of the series. Episodes in weeks before that have been just as randomly ordered.

More than likely, they are playing the episodes they still have the movie rights to, and are the cheapest to show. That's why Merlin's shop of wonders airs once or twice a year and "Overdrawn at the memory bank" appears at least 6 times a year.

Sci-Fi is now showing "Passions" and "Law&Order: SVU".