TERMINATOR: SCC officially terminated

After a few days of rumors and rumor denials, it's finally been confirmed that Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles has been canceled. (Click the image at left to buy the complete first season on Blu-Ray.)

Kevin Reilly, Fox's president of entertainment, told SCI FI Wire that Terminator "was not an inexpensive show," and Fox had to "make some choices on the night. But, ultimately, we looked at the ratings track on Monday, where it had a pretty consistent run, and then on Friday, where it moved to. And that trend line was not pointing in the right direction. ... But we make no apologies for that show. We had a huge launch for that show, as you remember. We gave it a lot of support and some consistent scheduling. We tried, and felt it was time to move on."

A lot of Terminator fans are grumbling online about Joss Whedon's Dollhouse getting renewed when Terminator wasn't. Reilly told SCI FI Wire it wasn't a case of choosing one show over another.

"Terminator has completed its run," Reilly said. "And I think it had a nice little run. It was a good show. It was not an either/or [with Dollhouse]. We did see it tailing off a bit. It had a nice creative core, but ultimately we made the bet on Dollhouse for the night. We had some other shows we thought would make a better profile for the night. So that's it for Terminator."


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