Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe

KrayzieKyd writes "The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing 'John Doe', another dead series that premiered with cult hit Firefly. It features a man with no memory of who he is but, but somehow has infinite knowledge. With his gift, he solves crimes which are hinted through his monochromatic sight with color. The show will re-premiere Friday, Jan 20 at 9pm ET." It's raining new shows on Sci-Fi, apparently.

Torrent for the old episodes

[HeavyMS]

can be found here http://www.mininova.org/tor/182793 [mininova.org]

Re:English?

[pantropik]

He has no memory of his past and sees everything in black and white. Sometimes, though, he'll see an object or person in color, which causes him to pay special attention to the person/oject and, you know, go adventuring and solve crimes and stuff.

Re:Cliffhanger

[halcyon1234]

The series ended with a cliffhanger (first season finale), which I've always thought is a pretty nasty thing to do to your audience, not that I'd expect anything better from Fox.

I always thought there should be a law that prevents any show from having a cliffhanger unless they have already been guarenteed a next season.

As you mention, Fox is notoriously bad for this. Right off the top of my head, I can think of VR5, Brimstone and American Gothic. All great SF(ish) shows that had cliffhangers and were cancelled. Cruel beyond belief.

John Doe is a pretty generic term...

[hackwrench]

and I don't know what the producer's name is.

Fortunately, Wikipedia to the rescue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe_(TV_series) [wikipedia.org]

Fox Reveals Doe's Secret (spoiler!)

[mwyner]

I read about this a couple of months ago, and never knew it about the time. Apparently after the got cancelled, they revealed what was going to happen: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue326/news.html [scifi.com]

Re:Sci-Fi Channel, R.I.P.

[BushCheney08]

It's not that nobody won't. It's that nobody legally can. Fox owns the rights to television shows based on Firefly. That's why another company (Universal) was able to make it into a movie -- because it wasn't a TV show. If Firefly ever returns to the small screen it will be because Fox decided to do it (or they sold the rights to it).

Oh, that painful first episode...

[dmorin]

Scene : John Doe, having just realized his "powers", is in some sort of mall taking questions from strangers.

Doe: "....010111010101101..1011."

Stranger: "Wow....he actually knows the assembly code for DOS."

Or something like that. But it did actually get good, especially as it progressed toward the eventual cliffhanger that others have mentioned. If SciFi channel has ordered new episodes I'd be thrilled, but I don't think they have.

Re:Sci-Fi Channel, R.I.P.

[canavan]

There are 1 million people coming to /. this week (or more?) $50 a year per user is $50 million. This is enough to get 20 shows going for a year.

I'd say that's just barely 30 episodes of some shows. Futurama averages at about US$1.5 Million per episode.

Unless they destroyed it

[KingSkippus]

Unless they destroy it, like they did with Sliders. I used to like that show. I thought it was moderately intelligent and had a great premise. When the Sci Fi channel started making it, though, it got sooooo bad.

I'd rather have no Firefly at all than have it become really bad. And that says a lot, because I really want more Firefly.