New Tremors TV Series!!!!!……or not.

A few years back after the release of Tremors 5: Bloodlines on home video, there has been talk of a new Tremors tv show starring Kevin Bacon reprising his role of Val McKee from the original film.  Kevin Bacon himself expressed some serious interest in returning to the fictional town of Perfection, Nevada.  When Mr. Bacon expressed his interest, fans of the original film and the franchise started getting excited because this was a real possibility.  Over the following year and a half there were rumors and speculations about what was going on with the potential new series.  About a year ago, we began hearing about the series going into production while a new film was also being made.  New film and series?  That’s pretty freaking awesome!  Apparently everything was going according to plan, up until a couple of days before Tremors 6 was released.  Then we got this from Kevin Bacon on Instagram: “Sad to report that my dream of revisiting the world of Perfection will not become a reality. Although we made a fantastic pilot… the network has decided not to move forward.”  On one hand, I’m very disappointed that this happened.  On the hand, however, I expected nothing less from the fucking SyFy Channel.  Everybody that was working on the pilot episode for the new series was taken by surprise as were the fans.  The director and writers of the pilot said that it tested well, so what the fuck happened?  Like I said, the SyFy Channel happened.  Now, to be fair, the previous TV series which aired nearly 15 years ago, starring Michael Gross was canceled after 13 episodes…on the then-Sci-Fi Channel.

Part of me is wondering why the fuck Universal Studios ship off the tv series to the goddamn SyFy Channel in the first place.  SyFy is nothing but a worthless cesspool of some of the worst trash on television.  The movies that play on that stupid channel are nothing more than cheap mockbusters and shows that nobody fucking watches anymore.  The SyFy Channel has been going straight to hell ever since they canceled Stargate Universe after 2 seasons.  The people running that channel have NO clue what the hell they’re doing.  The worst part about all this is that SyFy has been mum on everything.  There’s been no press release and no information put out why the show was canned before it even aired.  Usually, a channel would at least air one episode before canceling, but SyFy didn’t even do that.  What the fuck are they afraid of?  Don’t get me wrong, the fan base for Tremors isn’t exactly in the billions, but clearly the desire for more stories set in that universe have clearly inspired more films as evidenced by Tremors 5 and 6.  There’s already talk of a 7th film possibly in the works.  Again, I ask: What happened?  I’m guessing that SyFy wasn’t entirely sure that there was going to be a real market for a new Tremors series, but without them airing the pilot there is no way to gauge how well it was going to do.  Do they have a crystal ball that we aren’t aware of?  Are they employing psychics, now?   I get that the new series was not going to last very long.  Evidently, it was only going to last 7 or 8 episodes.  That was what I heard.  But, we’ll never know now, will we?  No.  It’s looking highly unlikely that SyFy will air the pilot episode.

Would it be possible for the new series to get handed over to someone like, say, Netflix, Amazon or Hulu?  Honestly, it would make more sense to put on those digital platforms then airing it on basic cable.  Will they hand over the series, though?  Honestly, I doubt it.  If there’s one thing the SyFy Channel is known for, it’s not for being smart or reasonable.  I don’t know if the fan-base for Tremors is big enough to deliver a backlash against SyFy.  I don’t know.  But I can tell you that people are not happy about.  I’m certainly not.  The more I keep hearing about shit like this from that dumpster fire of a channel, the more I want it to crash and burn.  SyFy hasn’t delivered anything worthwhile in about 20 years, and it’s not likely they’re going to change.  So…to the SyFy Channel, I say this:  Go fuck yourselves and I hope your business dries up and disappears.  So, yeah, I’m not happy about it.  I wanted to take a day or so to process it and put my thoughts out there.  I did review Tremors 6, which was a pretty good film, so there’s that.