I was going to do this post about obscure Sci-Fi programs that run for one or two series, get cancelled and then never see the light of day again, “Dark Skies” for example.

While looking up some info on “Dark Skies” I found out that there is a time and place for exactly this type of program, namely every night at eight pm on ITV 4. The schedule reads like a whose who of failed “B”-rate Sci-Fi:

Mondays: Space 1999 (Actually this is on at Seven)
Tuesdays: Dark Skies
Wednesdays: Andromeda
Thursdays: First Wave
Fridays: Earth: Final Conflict
Saturdays: Alien Nation
Sundays: Timecop (UFO is on at Seven)

Is ITV 4 running some kind of pension fund for the “Z”-list stars of these programs to top up their seasonal work on the pantomime circuit. If so I implore the big wigs at ITV 4 to pick up “Space Above and Beyond” , it’s star Kristen Cloke (voted the ninth sexiest women in Sci-Fi in 1997) has hardly worked since and could use the money to buy Netto value beans.

Kristen Cloke at hight of her Career.

And now.