Yeah. Syffy's beginning to stink as badly as Fox when it comes to handling sci-fi programming. At least they were honest enough to change their name.

I was browsing Amazon's sales rankings, which is confusing because different media are tracked separately. Eureka on DVD sells about as well as Sanctuary, normally around #7500...but get this: Last night's Sanctuary episode about the Gilbert and Sullivan virus shot up to #304. It's being called "ground breaking". Looks like you and I were in the minority when we gagged.

Anyway, for sales perspective, New Dr. Who season 6 is around #1200, and Warehouse 13 looks like Syffy's hottest property at #5,372.

Eureka had respectable audience figures, but maybe the problem is production cost. Eureka seems to have lots of elaborate physical sets. That's what did in Firefly, apparently: $2 million/episode was too rich for Fox's blood.

The reason I was checking out Amazon's sales figures was that I started wondering whether it might be possible to save Eureka by pointing to direct video sales. I thinks the networks have tunnel vision about the primary importance of their Nielsen audience ratings, but in this world there are other ways to sell video. I'd subscribe to future Eureka seasons just like I did this last one. How many others would pledge upfront? Add in ad-supported hulu streaming, and maybe Eureka can be liberated from the clutches of Syffy.