Sci Fi Channel head speaks out about the reasons behind Farscape's demise.

After a long period of silence, the US Sci Fi Channel's President, Bonnie Hammer, has given the channel's reasons for axing Farscape.

Speaking to TV Guide Online, she said: "We never wanted to cancel it... The ratings had softened, and it was getting increasingly expensive to produce. We just couldn't make the financial deal. But we never wanted it to end when it ended. We had all intentions of doing 13 more episodes."

Bonnie explained that Sci Fi did consider producing a series finale: "We looked at all the options. But with the speed in which it would have had to be done - because the set had to be broken down and the cast had to come back and the scripts weren't written - [the cost] would have been enormous... If all of those incredible fans who wrote in and sent notes and flowers and [whatnot] had actually watched it every week, we would have been able to do the 22," she huffed.

Bonnie added that the reason it has decided to continue with Stargate: SG1, but not Farscape is simply due to ratings and the style of the show:

"Even though Stargate is sci-fi, it's very broad sci-fi. It's not serialised. Every episode, you can come to it whether you've watched the one before. They are self-contained... Farscape, on the other hand, got very, very serialised. It got very 'in' ... They had brilliant and sophisticated writing, but it was so narrow that it basically was an invitation to not tune in if you weren't totally familiar with the show."