SyFy: No More Will Wheaton

More bad news for TV land - The Will Wheaton Project has been canceled by the SyFy network after only 12 episodes.  I guess it did not have the audience SyFy was hoping, but I believe the geeks were happy.  Overall, it was a low-budget yet fun production allowing Wil to pick fun at Hollywood, including a few SyFy productions (I am sure that had nothing to do with it, right?) 

Wil Wheaton is taking it well so far based on his blog, though he seems to wonder if the executives green lighted a show they never really understood: 

Ultimately, he told me, the executives in New York just didn’t think we had enough viewers to justify more episodes. I didn’t say anything about the total lack of promotion off the network, or point out that our ratings were on par with The Soup, or that ratings are always lower in summer than the fall. I didn’t  bother saying any of that, because I know he knows that. I was reasonably confident that he made those arguments with New York when he was trying to get the show renewed. I presume he fought hard for us, but ultimately couldn’t sway executives in New York who never seemed — in my opinion — to really understand what kind of show we were doing, who I was and why I was hosting it, and how to engage with and promote to the audience who would like it.

Maybe another network will see that SyFy was starting to mine a rich vein of fans that are now following everything from The Big Bang Theory to Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley.  It is only a matter of time before a similar program pops up, and I hope they give Wil and others a little more money and support.