Most missed TV series - UK poll

[Bounty]

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Sci-fi series Star Trek is the show most people want to see returned to their TV screens, a survey has found.

Originally broadcast in the US in 1966, it topped a poll of more than 1,000 viewers commissioned by UK interactive TV firm Home Media Networks.

Fantasy action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was second, followed by long-running sitcom Friends.

Star Trek's latest spin-off TV series, Enterprise, was axed in February following poor ratings.

Star Trek also spawned 10 movie spin-offs, the most recent being Nemesis in 2002.

Sitcom Fawlty Towers was the highest ranking UK show in the list, in fourth place.

Sci-fi shows featured heavily in the top 10, including UK series Blake's 7 and US shows Babylon 5 and Stargate.

Popular US sitcom Seinfeld, which spawned ongoing series Curb Your Enthusiasm, was in ninth place.

The full list :

1. Star Trek
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Friends
4. Fawlty Towers
5. Blake's 7
6. The X-Files
7. Babylon 5
8. Stargate
9. Seinfeld
10. The A-Team

Friends ? The X-files !?

I wonder how those questions were phrased. There's a difference between "missing" and "wanting to see back on screen" that probably got lost somwhere...

[Crabbypants]

I miss Trek so much I ache. Those characters are pretty real to me and I often wonder what they're up to. I had a few issues with Enterprise (who didn't?) but cancelling it like that with all those unresolved questions was harsh. I don't even watch TV anymore - what's the point?

[Bounty]

I miss Trek so much I ache.

Don't tell me you've watched all 28 consecutive years of series and 20 hours of movies twice already

[Crabbypants]

Goes without saying. (I buy the books, too. And the technical manuals)

OMG, I'm such a loser.

[Asdeed]

[some snipping]

Friends ? The X-files !?

I wonder how those questions were phrased. There's a difference between "missing" and "wanting to see back on screen" that probably got lost somwhere...

According to dictionary.com...

science fiction
n.

A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

See, Friends fits perfectly! Pheobe always struck me as otherworldly and Joey certainly qulified as a space cadet!

Yeah okay, I got nothin

[Stark]

I miss Trek so much I ache. Those characters are pretty real to me and I often wonder what they're up to. <snip>

I'm sorry, that's lame. Seek professional help.

I'm a big B7 fan, but I can't say the show could be 'missed'. It was camp, a bit of a laugh, and it ended. It certainly hasn't aged well, nor could it realistically be continued or remade. Do people really want B7:TNG or nB7? That'd be WIERD.

[Bounty]

I'm sorry, that's lame. Seek professional help.

It's fandom. Lame, perhaps, but not exactly rare, and not something to seek help over...yet.

[Chris OFarrell]

I miss Trek so much I ache. Those characters are pretty real to me and I often wonder what they're up to. <snip>

I'm sorry, that's lame. Seek professional help.

I'm a big B7 fan, but I can't say the show could be 'missed'. It was camp, a bit of a laugh, and it ended. It certainly hasn't aged well, nor could it realistically be continued or remade. Do people really want B7:TNG or nB7? That'd be WIERD.

I want it. Frankly if BSG could be remade, then I see no reason why a neo Blakes Seven couldn't work.

[Straha]

Wait. Why is Stargate on that list?

[Old Plympto]

Wait. Why is Stargate on that list?

That caught my eye as well. Is it because Stargate's newer seasons haven't been shown on UK TV for some time now? British SDNetters, what say you?

[Manus Celer Dei]

We all saw what happened when they tryed to bring back Babylon 5. That must never be repeated.

[Admiral Valdemar]

That caught my eye as well. Is it because Stargate's newer seasons haven't been shown on UK TV for some time now? British SDNetters, what say you?

We see the end of the series before you do in the US. I can't for the life of me think why it's on there, that poll just has "wrong" written all over it.

I would be interested in a remake of B7 though. That, if done like Neo-BSG, could rock so much.

[HemlockGrey]

I don't know how they could possibly do a continuation of B7, since, you know, it ends with the evil empire victorious. I'm also a little skeptical of a nBSG-type remake; part of what was great about B7 was it was incredibly campy.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Part of what made the original BSG is the fact that it is total cheese and camp meshed together, but they still remade it and it still doesn't suck as a remake. I could understand if it was, say, Flash Gordon (which I had the pleasure of watching again today) or S:1999 which must remain as is. For that cannot be remade. Ever. But B7 could, and in fact, deserves a bigger budget remake, in my honest opinion. Why just leave it with BSG? The 27th season of Dr. Who is quite different to many previous seasons and is nothing but a goldmine, I reckon B7 could be handled likewise.

[Uraniun235]

We all saw what happened when they tryed to bring back Babylon 5. That must never be repeated.

The problem seemed to me to be the creator spiralling deeper and deeper into fantasy conventions. I personally much preferred the Earth civil war plot over the war of the space wizards plot.

[Dartzap]

*blinks* The feck? Friendsis on everydamn day on E4, Stargate is on quite often, Enterprise has yet to finish its last season on C4, Voyager is repeated on 5, as is Buffy.

Oh wait they mean new stuff? Pfft, they'd only get worse the longer they go on

[Dorsk 81]

That is bullshit. Where the hell is Spaced and Black Books?! What the hell is wrong with people?

Although, I miss The A-Team too.

[Grand Admiral Mango]

I miss Buffy and Futurama, but thank god for the new series of Doctor Who!!

[thejester]

That is bullshit. Where the hell is Spaced and Black Books?! What the hell is wrong with people?

Yeah, another season of Black Books would go down well. And I'd say Father Ted as well, except Dermot Morgan's dead.

[Lusankya]

For some reason I was expecting this to be a list of British Shows. Monty Python, Ripping Yarns, Blackadder and Mr Bean would have fitted quite nicely up there.


ROAR!!!!! says GOJIRA!!!!!

[Stark]

Part of what made the original BSG is the fact that it is total cheese and camp meshed together, but they still remade it and it still doesn't suck as a remake. I could understand if it was, say, Flash Gordon (which I had the pleasure of watching again today) or S:1999 which must remain as is. For that cannot be remade. Ever. But B7 could, and in fact, deserves a bigger budget remake, in my honest opinion. Why just leave it with BSG? The 27th season of Dr. Who is quite different to many previous seasons and is nothing but a goldmine, I reckon B7 could be handled likewise.

It *could* be done... but what would be the point of calling it B7? Let's face it: nBSG has pretty much jack and shit to do with BSG, it's branding. Blake's 7 isn't a bankable brand, so why not just make another bunch-of-criminals-who-hate-each-other save-the-universe-from-oppression show?

And yeah, if it wasn't horribly overacted, full of dodgey props and misogyny, it just wouldn't be the same show. I wouldn't watch a nBSG-style B7+angst show, sorry.