That's because they killed TSCC. They are getting what is comming to them. Just wait... Season 3 or else!

(((SPOILERS!!!))) Just in case..

I liked it for the most part, I loved the Pulse Drive a lot. I hated it when it got to the "the virtual reality glasses raped me!" Emo out bs. I hate how rape, as horrible as it is, is just like in life placed higher on the evil scale then killing somebody...

Oh and they "killed" off the only character that I liked, well I did like the eng. guy, but still..

Add this to the HUGE list of Fox shows they have driven into the ground for no reason. When will they realize that even with all the modern demographic technology in the world you can't predict whether a show will succeed or not from ONE SINGLE EPISODE.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Virtuality pilot and thought it raised some very interesting questions about the nature of reality. If they really wanted this show to do well, they would not have aired it on Friday night.

I tried to watch it but could only make it through the first half hour.

Well, let's be honest: Fox wanted to kill this, and did everything they could to kill it. They chose a Friday night, mid-summer, in a summer wityh incredibly weak number of new shows (so no one is watching to not see their, complete lack of advertizing, almost all of which said that this was a failed pilot. The press picked it up, and announced it as a 'TV movie', and then went on to say that it wasn't a good movie, and that the two hours didn't go anywhere, because it was a deal pilot they were burning off (and then lauded it as a great pilot). Seriously... take a tour of your favorite websites and newsources: they all highly praise it as a pilot, pan it as a stand alone movie, but most importantly, advertize it as a dead pilot. Who is going to tune into a dead pilot? On Friday? During the first real heatwave of the summer, where people are headed in droves to movies and malls to keep cool? Fox wanted it dead, and was playing some kind of bizarre game here. Honestly, Moore should have never gone to Fox with this. Honestly, no one with any talent should go to Fox at all (the numbskills in charge there are absoluteley clueless).

This is FOX showing us that SciFi is dead to them, and they're instead slowly moving toward being a softcore porn channel. Then Fox News will really be able to complain about what's on TV these days. Damn liberal media and their porn...
Personally, I liked the show. Too heady for Fox watchers, after all they killed off TSCC to make room for more "Cops" and Judge Judy.

I also Tivo'ed the movie and liked it a lot. I think that (from what I can see) Fox did not promote it enough. I had several sci-fi fans that did not know it was on. I also think that running it on Friday night during the summer the same weekend that Transformers II came out is pretty bone-headed as well.

I gave it 30 minutes, but it just didn't draw me in enough (and I'm a huge Sci-Fi fan). I may try and watch the rest of it if I get bored later this week...

I liked it.

Starting a new show--a niche show--on a Friday night, in summer--on a Friday night that may have seen a lot of people already hitting the road for a very long 4th holiday, was just...dumb.

I like Nikolaj--wish they would have continued New Amsterdam for another season.

We need a SciFi channel. We used to have one--I'd like one that actually cares about what it airs and finds inventive ways to fund their projects instead of relying on traditional adverts.

...and then I wake up.../sigh

I didn't even know it was gonna be on...maybe cus I haven't turned on my tv since May. Still, to base whether to order up episodes on how many people watch a 2 hour movie on a Friday night in June is ridiculous. Network execs must mostly be those kids that ate their crayons in grade school.

no loss whatsoever. maybe it could've been good, but what I saw was very disappointing, even boring. seemed much like O.J.'s horrid Capricorn One (let's pretend it never happened!)...

Well one reason it didn't so great and the same reason it "hurt" (TSCC) is that those shows have 2 thing most people don't like any more, Plots and evolving storyline. They don't want to have to remember last weeks episode to figure out this weeks but its ok that they know every one of the octo-moms kids names..

Sure some do great but even then people whine. Look at lost (Which I don't watch) but omg their seasons are too long in between or some crap and so I can't remember what happen/ Yet wasn't bsg last few season 10x longer? Yet I could remember stuff so..

I wasnt impressed with it. It seemed rather boring and lost interest in the show.

Why is FOX even engaging in sci-fi programming anymore? Give the show to the SCIFI Channel who desperately needs programming anyway. How many times am I expected to watch Mega-Shark vs. Super-Octopus and Bond movies (WTF!).

Basically its another Spike TV, at least spike TV show lots of sci fi (star trek), or they did, haven't watched in awhile.

Oh and by the way FOX, I didn't even get to see this cause you clearly didn't put any effort into advertising this show. Way to go. You did the same thing with the Doctor Who movie year ago when you tried to bring that back as a series. Ask anyone in the BBC if they hate that advertising money that's coming in for their Doctor Who show. Does anyone know what they're doing at your network. At least I can catch it on HULU tonight.

Doomed to fail! The only buzz before the show aired was that they weren't going to pick up the series anyway, so why would people tune in?

Boring show.... bring back Terminator:SCC.

It's obvious that Fox had no intention at all of taking it to series. They originally planned to show it on Saturday 4th July. That says all that needs to be said. That they moved it from the 4th was nice, but they still moved it to a Friday.

I'm a little disappointed that I don't get to see how the story goes on, but it's not surprising at all that there's going to be no series. That was kind of obvious as soon as you heard the word 'Fox'.

For people who liked the 'small number of people on a cramped spaceship on a long mission' idea but didn't necessarily like (or could do without) the VR and reality show stuff, there's still Defying Gravity coming some time this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defying_Gravity_(TV_series)

I saw zero advertising for this show. The only reason I knew it was even on is because I happen to be flipping channels(a rare thing for me). I think it has huge potential.

Thank God!. I only watched for a few minutes, but, what I saw I thought was slow, dumbly acted and just plain dull, dull, dull. On the plus side; it was nice to have proof that a Atom Bomb "Pulse" ship was just as stupid as I always thought it would be. Sorry folks, maybe next time. KIMOTA!!!

I sort of liked it, but found the premise of 10 people on a 10+ yr mission to be illogical. The the very reason as to why was part of the storyline of the show.... with just 10 people then what happens if someone gets sick and cannot do their job, or if someone gets killed? With no way to replace a missing crew member skill set then you are just asking for problems... For that long of a mission and with no way to replace crew, even a 20 person crew may not have been enough, or even a 30 person crew... it just doesn't make sense.

Boring... I watched the first half hour and thought it was boring... Not to mention I had no interest in the silly gay couple. I agree SCC needs to come back at least to get a solid ending. Peanuts anyone.

So, watching it with commercials, I wondered whether the constant promos for "Brothers", particularly over the end credits, were meant to be a slap in the face / kick in the balls. Let me get this straight: Fox's Friday night used to be T:TSCC + Dollhouse. Now, they're pairing Brothers with Dollhouse? We get THAT instead of Virtuality? Are they kidding?

Bye Bye FOX afetr TSCC I am boycotting your station and products till next May 2010

Publicity? What publicity? There was practically none to speak of. From what it seems, a lot of people didn't even find out about it until after the airing. FOX doomed it before it even started. Which is a shame, because it was a terrific pilot.

The ratings don't mean much. I mean, who watches television nowadays and on a Friday night at the beginning of summer holiday, when you can download it the next day without all those annoying commercials. I think the number of downloads, DVR numbers and streaming traffic is a stronger indicator. I think FOX needs to take a chance and rebuild the goodwill with the sci fi audience again because here was something that some were excited for that got clobbered by FOX AGAIN.

Personally, I thought it was a cool and cerebral show.

When it comes to sci-fi fox doesn't have a clue !!!!!!!

@xwaver
They are actually going to lead into Dollhouse with two, half-hour comedies, on Friday nights.

I'll be watching it on Hulu, provided they continue to offer it in the fall.

Because Fox Hates Sci-Fi. it's gotta be why. All the good stuff they put on the air they completely screw over.

Forget this and try another Lost In Space TV series pilot..PLEASE!!

Lets forget about this and get serious about a Lost In Space TV series again...PLEASE!!

Into this show in a half hour I thought it was okay, but i watched this on fox website. i think that fox shouldn't be so fixated on the number of viewers on television but instead see how many ppl is streaming it or dl it. Coz i agree with all the ppl in this blog stating that it was a Friday night in midsummer.

fox screwed up TSCC in the same way, bad scheduling...

good RD Moore frakked the last epi of BSG and should have spent more time on that and FOX can kiss it since they killed TSCC we are boycotting the frakkers

Wasn't a bad show. Kinda slow at times, but I could tell it was just laying down the framework for the long haul of a story line. The only thing I could think of while watching it was that I would be pissed if I was stuck on the ship w/o a chick for me and I also thought it was kinda sexy seeing the rock star sing in Japanese. Oh yeah...the computer is evil.

Weird seeing how many gave the show a half hour as that is exactly the case for me as well.

I heard a few on the internet say it got a little more interesting a bit into it, but how much better can a show get that repulses you to begin with?

Glad to see that sometimes (Rarely!) the networks get a bone.

I would not have even known about the show if I hadn't surfed scifiwire.com. Was FireFly (my most favorite show that I never saw first run) like this??? Like any other pilot, the first hour was annoying and way too cloying in trying to introduce and get us to like the characters before getting into the actual story. It would have been better if it was an actual movie instead of a two hour first episode. But given that it showed on FOX I guess it didn't matter anyway.

You really want to know what killed it? The chick singing the theme song to "The Munsters" in Japanese with a punk beat.

Of course it did poorly. They aired it at about the worst time, but more importantly, it was advertised as a pilot for a series that was not picked up and they said it didn't answer any of the questions they raised. So why on earth would anyone watch a show that they knew from the beginning would have no resolution at all? If they wanted anyone to watch it, they should have waited until after it aired to announce it wasn't picked up. Fox gave it absolutely no hope of succeeding.

I think it is a fantastic show. Didn't get to see it on the 26th but I have watched the pilot several times online. The set design is amazing. Only thing I really didn't like is the phaeton watermark during the interviews, its like watching a screener. Anyway, I think it would be a damn shame to cancel it after all this publicity. They should run it agian another night or move it to FX. Would love to see more.

I think it is a fantastic show. Didn't get to see it on the 26th but I have watched the pilot several times online. The set design is amazing. Only thing I really didn't like is the phaeton watermark during the interviews, its like watching a screener. Anyway, I think it would be a damn shame to cancel it after all this publicity. They should run it agian another night or move it to FX. Would love to see more.

This was actually a pretty decent show, and since it bombed FOX will probably pick this up and replace one of their good shows. Oh wait, FOX has no good shows.

FOX don't bother creating any more genre shows. After TSCC, I refuse to watch them on your channel.

DUH. Who's going to watch a program that will OFFER NO ANSWERS and will NOT BE CONTINUED? Talk about a total waste of time.

I really wanted to like this. I really did.

But I didn't. The whole "reality show" aspect of it really got on my nerves, especially since the first half hour of the movie was mostly devoted to that. I just hate reality shows in general, and I think that carried over.

And the stakes weren't really that high in the VR portions. With the exception of the (SPOILER ALERT) sexual assault, there were no consequences at all when the creepy guy appeared in their modules.

It all built towards the "Go/No Go" for an hour, but you knew that of course it was a go since they wanted it to be a series.

Frak YOU stupid FOX NETWORK!!!...RDM is just too FRAKKIN´ good for ya!...Well guess what! i´m not WATCHING ANYTHING on FOX anymore!! anything!!...Im just gonna DOWNLOAD it all instead, it´s a shame how much the network changed in the last decade, and to THINK that i grew up with that channel (u,u)....

Loved show, knew it would get slattered in ratings. Regret that this show will never get anything more then a two hour pilot, deserves better. SyFy should definitely consider picking up the option on this show.

I kind of liked the pilot. It's really obvious that it was meant as the pilot for a series. There were a couple of problems I had with it:

- The premise of a reality show just disgusted me. No wonder it ended up on Fox as a show about a reality show.

- I agree with the earlier comments about having such a small crew. Although they may have cross-trained a little for some redundancy in such an event, it doesn't appear that way based on the way the characters behaved. Far too compartmentalized.

- The ending pretty much confirmed my suspicions as to where a potential series would lead. I don't want to spoil it for the 6,498,299,999 people who haven't had a chance to watch it yet...

All in all, I'm not sure a series would hold my interest. The idea of the virtual character terrorizing them all was interesting, but I more likely would have written it as a miniseries with some sort of closure. Doesn't feel like anything that could stretch for an extended period.

Don't sound too cocky, Sci Fi Wire. You guys are annoying as heck. You laud the most tacky commercial driven (Heroes, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek) and essentially want more interesting shows like this and countless others to fail. Pathetic. It's really disgusting.

Oh please not another Firefly! I lasted 5 episodes before I know the show was awful with a ridiculous plot and the fans that pumped the show like a scummy penny stock scam artist. Cold it be a fictional show based on a reality show is a big fat turkey. Today’s fans probably never have watched Metropolis, Things to Com or 2001 and do not know that Science fiction greatness existed before 1980.

I only saw one commercial for it and happened to stumble on it because none of my friends were around and I happened to home on a Friday night.

The movie itself was okay, not great, but okay. I would give it a chance if it made it to series, but if Fox has it, just kill it now and save us all a lot of pain.

Wow. I'm so surprised that a show that was given zero advance PR, zero advertising, zero cross channel promotion, and zero media campaign buzz; a show that was broadcast in the middle of the slowest season for television, on a day and in a time slot particularly incompatible with the core viewer of sci-fi fare; a show on a network not normally associated with this sort of programming; yes, so I'm so surprised that, given all those things, the show 'crashed and burned'

Give me a break. If FOX didn't want to launch this series, it ought to have just come out and said so. Maybe they thought it would be too costly. Maybe they were concerned about cannibalization. Maybe Moore rubbed them the wrong way.

But please, let's not pretend that the show 'crashed and burned' of its own accord when it was set up to fail from the start. Give me a break.

Muldfeld: If you dislike SCI FI Wire so much, why do you spend so much time here?

Of course it did horrible!Everybody was watching all the Michael Jackson specials.24 HR news channels forgot all about Iran...hello ratings!!!

I was going to watch it on hulu but now I think I will pass

I've never liked VR movies or shows. they have all simply sucked. Virtuosity was an exception I guess.

Hmmm....No real advertisement, and released on the first week of (whether you hate it or like it) Transformers 2. Fox really wanted this to succeed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this "pilot". It really caught my attention and I loved the tone (Very Ridley Scott's Alien to me). I would have watched this series.

Too bad Fox blew yet another potential great series (Still pissed at them for Space:Above and Beyond!!). They just don't get Sci Fi.

My wife and I loved Virtuality. We both want more.

"Hmmm....No real advertisement, and released on the first week of (whether you hate it or like it) Transformers 2. Fox really wanted this to succeed."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the pilot was also competing against MJ's death news coverage.

"Virtuality" made me want to pull my hair out. It was boring and the characters were the worst type of cliches. I'd never watch it as a series.

No self-respecting psychologist would have passed this particular group of angst ridden people on a long-term mission. It's one thing when your crew is thrust together by circumstance [Battlestar Gallactica] but another when they're hand-picked. I am not sure where it meant to go, VR captain, everything an illusion, it doesn't matter. This was not the outer-space scifi adventure I had hoped for. I doubt if SUNSHINE or SOLARIS would make good series' material either and that is what this felt like.

Its funny that everyone is making excuses as to why this failed. Simply put it sucked.....I understood the premise to the show and it still bored the hell out of me. Come on Fox a modern retelling of 2001 is essentially what Virtuality is.

This show bored me to the point that I fell asleep after about an hour of watching this bore fest.

The problem is that airing anything on a weekend when everyone's out doing something after a long workweek is ludicrous. Monday through Thursday is the best time to air primetime tv shows. Fox began with Werewolf and added lots of great shows. After awhile they lost sight of what made them the fourth network. The X-Files Chris Carter began a show called Space Above and Beyond which was realistic and then began Millenium. Space Above and Beyond was killed and later Millenium followed. I can guarantee that if TSCC had been left on Monday nights it would have survived but they think they know better. Why not sell it to SyFy? The programming executives at Fox are idiots. All they seem to want to do is air stupid cartoons and American Idol. Why they even greenlight and air sci-fi shows only to remove them is insane. Why not boycott Fox completely? I know that many of us miss Firefly as we will miss TSCC and every other great sci-fi show that has been killed prematurely. I've always wondered why they cling to outmoded scheduling anyway. Why not have tv series that overlap the summer and since the workday has come to mean three shifts why not program great shows or recasts at night? Lets boycott Fox!!!!

I must admit I'm not surprised the show failed to go to series. When I heard the Mr Moore was doing another show I thought Oh great another piece of over sexed crap like BSG, where plot and effects far outweigh anything of interest.
Then I watch the 12 minute teaser here a little while ago, and I realized I was wrong. In fact I was very very wrong.
What Mr Moore has done is created the first piece of true Science Fiction for TV in ages. Most of what we see is Fantasy fiction. None of the science is real, the characters are 2D at best, in setting which have a little to do with science as the chair I'm sitting on.
Finally some one has made a story about people. Not just 2d cardboard cut out ken and barbie knock offs, but people. Then by chance they have been placed on a space ship.
Not some super impossible wizz about the galaxy sound stage, but a realistic, plausible, real science space ship, which looks built by humans.

However these two very different and wonderful qualities to the show, are also what had killed it.
TV is and will always been aimed at the lowest common elements of its viewing audience. Fox wants to make money, so they produce shows that know people will watch. The more people the better. Then they sell advertising space within and around their shows.
For years most TV has been dumbed down and dumbed down, to feed the lowest common element factor.
This is why now you can have shows go on for years, using the same joke week after week. Because you don't need to think to get the joke.

Now when someone wants to and in fact does produce a good story, which requires a little bit of brain power to deal with..........it gets dumped.

To be honest with you, I had no idea this was on already. I did not see any promotion for it and that week, I happened to be offline most of the time and did not see anything here.

So, Fox really didn't put any muscle behind it, as far as I'm concerned.

@bluesman
I thought she also sang the song from the Cantina scene in Episode IV...

Well, I knew it was on, watched it and was not impressed. I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen it. I suggest you guys that really want to see it try to find it on HULU or Fancast or IMDB or something. Basically all I liked was the VR aspect which I think they killed for me, and Clea Duval. She rocks.

I'm shocked, the Ron Moore Fanbois are few and far between on this thread. Amazing. No one declaring RDM a God-Genius, and Virtuality the "Best Show EVER produced, ever"

My hope for Humanity just went up.

Virtuality was by far the lamest POS I've suffered through in a long time. Lame Soap Opera CHEESE. Lame "Rape as a story hook" crutches. Lame jerky Ron Moore Cameras, and David Eick Swish Pans. Lame Angst and Despair Navel gazing BS.

It's no wonder Fox ashcanned it.

This is RDM WITHOUT Bonnie "Devoid of Imagination" Hammer and a well paid Stealth Marketing Group bolstering up his Hack backside.

I feel like this is some of the best potential TV I've seen in a long time, and I was extremely disappointed this was not being picked up for a series. At the very least, the most promising science fiction series I've ever seen, barring one or two outstanding exceptions. Someone, be it Fox or Syfy or whoever, please pick this up for just one season at least.

FOX has no clue how to do a Sci Fi series, vulgar cartoons are there bag.

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