Sci Fi Pulls Tornado Film
Sci Fi Channel Pulls NYC: Tornado Terror Due to Tornado Deaths in Iowa
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/13/2008 1:56:00 AM
Sci Fi Channel said Thursday that it was pulling the premiere of its original "Scinema Saturday" movie, NYC: Tornado Terror, which was to have debuted at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 14.
The move comes in the wake of the Iowa tornado this week that killed four teen-agers in a Boy Scout camp in the western part of the state.
Executives at the channel discussed the move Thursday and initially contemplated going ahead with the show but putting a content warning at the beginning and one at the end pointing viewers to www.redcross.org to support relief efforts.
But after further discussion, those executives ultimately concluded that it would not be appropriate to go ahead with the airing at this time, a network spokeswoman said. The promos for the show are also being pulled.
There was no word yet on what will go in its place or when the film will be rescheduled.
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I, too; wanted to see this movie; just show us the movie ASAP!
Mark - 6/26/2008 1:43:00 PM EDT -
I wish the boss people would quit playing with the shows. Hence on the 14th with the movie I was waiting to watch since I first saw the promo. I even got some co workers interested in watching it and we all went home from a long nursing day and got ready and comfortable, turned on the telly and what do we see but " The Stand" a movie played so often that I am sick of it. I seen it once and that was enough. I would like the movie played where we( the public) can see it, not 2 or 3 in the morning when most are in bed to go to work keeping this society grinding. Even if you have to take the stupid Scare Tactics off for one night.
Sem - 6/20/2008 12:29:00 PM EDT -
man we looked all over the place for this movie! we thought we were going crazy!
Susan and Thirston Hall - 6/20/2008 2:50:00 AM EDT -
This made me so mad. I had cleared my schedule to see this movie and they didn't show it. Geeshh I live in Kansas, and we get storms and tornadoes all the time. We are flooding here at the moment. This is reality, the movie isn't.
W K M - 6/16/2008 5:39:00 PM EDT -
If it was postponed because of the tornado deaths in the mid west? Then why did thay show 2 other tornado films before the move was to start. So why pull the last one?
I dont get it!
And why pull a move because 4 people died in a storm? People die in storms sll the time.
Its silly decisions like that holds back the sci fi channal.
Its like thay think of new ways to disappoint its viewers. Its too bad that alot of sci fi fans feel this way.
Gerald Vance - 6/15/2008 10:14:00 PM EDT
