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The project, a twenty-hour miniseries about alien abductions, garnered the best ratings Sci-Fi had seen to date and earned the channel its first major Emmy. During the six years Hammer presided over Sci-Fi, the channel's audience doubled and Sci-Fi ranked in cable's top 10 among adults 25 to 54 and 18 to 49. In 2004 Universal Television merged ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), which condensed Nigel Kneale’s ground-breaking 1953 BBC TV serial into a brisk sci-fi horror yarn, hit a nerve with the viewing public. . It wasn’t a rocket-ships-and-romance confection: it was dark stuff (emphasised by Hammer’s playing up its ‘X’ certificate in the title), dealing in contagion, mutilation, and the slow transformation of a man, the ...
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Jan 30, 2018 · Hammer Films did so with a small group of scary science fiction/horror films set in modern day. ... chilling sci-fi film made at the height of the Red Scare/body-snatcher variety of sci-fi. There ...
Jan 30, 2019 · Hammer–the legendary (pun intended) British studio responsible for some of the best horror films ever made–did three film adaptations of the Quatermass serials in the ‘50s and ‘60s ...
Aug 18, 2008 · Hammer took over in 2004, having already produced results at Sci Fi with shows like Battlestar Galactica. One of her first moves at USA was giving the network a stronger brand identity. "Research ...
Alongside the Lippert films, Hammer spread its bets on comedies and factual shorts and even dabbled in fantasy and sci-fi with Four Sided Triangle and Spaceways. Then, in 1953, the British public got the shock of its life when the BBC's nascent television service aired science-horror serial The Quatermass Experiment .
Jan 12, 2021 · By the mid-1950s, Hammer was able to concoct a compelling combination of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi, which led to the production of films like Val Guest’s The Quartermass Experiment. Hammer swerved deep into the genre of adult horror with The Snorkel , which chronicled the story of a teenager who comes to the realization that her stepfather ...
