Acidus wrote:

This move scares me. With the movie coming out in 2 months, you'd think Fox would adopt a "wait and see" attitude about the show. Why are they selling rights to a show that could get very popular? If they had any plans to restart the show after the movie, you'd think they'd want to keep the 1st season.

From what I understand, Fox has retained rights to two further motion pictures before any new episodes can be created. Note, that I have not seen anyone mention that those rights were sold to SciFi, but the implication that they were is there if they retained certain other rights.

From that, its not a terribly dangerous move. They will cash in on any market penetration SciFi gains for them in a movie release. My supposition is that movies produce a much larger profit margin than telivision advertising, especially for a SciFi or Fox based rerun series.

RE: Firefly picked up by SciFi Channel