It's almost time for the Fall Season on TV and I am getting psyched up over the shows coming out. With shows like Smallville and the Simpsons heading to the final gates (could be still rumored, could be factual), returning shows like the Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes, and new show like Dollhouse, Eleventh Hour, and Fringe get me wanting to buy stock in Orville Reddenbacher. Thanks to the strong Fall linerup, I have my evenings planned. I have to make a list and check out who survives the cuts before season's end and try to review the one that did make it.

My Fall Resolution is trying to check-in more with this site. Here's to hoping....

I just completed reading postings on The Dresden Files and the topic should have been "Is the SCI-FI Channel a Killer". For what I can tell by their cancelling shows like The Dresden Files and, even going back a few years, Farscape for "reality" based programming such as ECW (for which my friends who like wrestling, now consider that show Science fiction.) and Ghost Hunters. Shows that could be considered the anchor for the network, like Battlestar Galactica, are quickly running out of story to tell and are ending. What are they going to have to bring in ratings to make them a thriving network?

Don't get me wrong, I like shows like Who Wants to be a Superhero and wrestling like ECW but what attracted me to watching The SCI-FI network was science-fiction shows and horror shows that ran the gamut of the sixties up to current day. Shows like Friday the 13th: The Series, Babylon 5, the Incredible Hulk, First Wave, and many others that I could list. The executives at SCI-FI probably made decisions like cutting shows solely based on how much money someone could pay them, not on how well a show performs. With this type of philosophy backing their decisions, they will paint themselves into a corner and we, the viewing public, will fare the worst for it.

With DVD sets coming out for shows, I'll still get to watch Doctor Who if they decide to drop the ball and not show it. I like being able to see them while the shows are still contextual to when they were shown first and would like to still see them on SCI-FI. I still watch episodes fo the X-Files when I get a chance. The same goes for Stargate SG-1 and others. I also watch their movies, even ones like "Mansquito" and "Warbirds" it's just like watching movies that Elvira hosted or various other Saturday movie hosts would show. SCI-FI just has to give stuff a chance to stick.

There seems to be a loosening up of TV shows being released to DVD as of late. Within the last month, I purchased Sliders Season 4 (waited at least 2 years for it), Swamp Thing (waited forever), War of the Worlds Season 1 (also waited forever), and others thast did not take nearly as long to come out for consumption (like Painkiller Jane, The Bionic Woman [2008]) It's kind of crazy how the releases are being so tightly packed instead of being spaced apart like in days past.

I think that it could be a couple of factors that are contributing to the inrush of shows being released. My small list is as follows...

1) It's a little over a year until Television viewing will be relegated to High Definition.

2) The economy is being shaky and consumers are needed to spend cash.

3) People want to watch more TV that had writers instead of "Reality" shows.

Whatever the reason, now I have a lot more on my viewing plate to watch during my daytime hours (Working Third shift will do that for your viewing of shows). I could not be happier to watch more of my favorite shows when they come out on DVD. Shows like Friday the 13th - The Series, which I have been waiting for since the Sci-Fi channel showed them again about five years ago and Birds of Prey which I seen when they televised it.