This one is more commentary, but for the Australian audience, potentially also decade old news.

With a much smaller market here, it was long common for TV shows not to make it downunder.

We'd only hear of them through international sources, eg. the internet.

Cancelled Sci Fi has published a short piece on Fox series Virtuality which was cancelled before it aired.

Several of the cast we recognise, eg. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones, Jaime Lannister) but not the show.

The article posits that the pilot was too "dense" and the network executives scared off by that.

Time is the thing.

Virtuality is by Ronald D. Moore and released on June 26, 2009.

On March 20, 2009, Moore's infamous final episode of the Battlestar Galactica reboot aired.

Prior to that Moore had been very much in demand. After? 

His career in Wikipedia has an entire section for Unproduced pitches and failed pilots (2009-2013). Quite a large section.

That section also details a cameo he made in a CSI episode:

In the episode, Moore has one line of dialogue as he portrays an irate audience member at a science fiction convention, yelling at the (fictional) producer of a dark-and-gritty remake of a beloved cult series.

Like Virtuality, we hadn't been aware of that one but it probably compounded his woes.

His BSG reboot had been very popular with both critics and viewers up until the final series and in particular that episode. At least from this description, the cameo mischaracterizes his newfound and profound unpopularity.

Mocking fans and dishonestly into the bargain, was never going to improve his popularity.

Stargate executive Brad Wright made a similar mistake in dishonestly blaming fans for the unpopularity of Stargate: Universe:

I don’t think if we for any reason go away, it is an issue necessarily of the quality of the product that we’ve been making. I think getting moved on the schedule has hurt us. And the fact that some of the fans that liked SG-1 and Atlantis were so angry that they have deliberately hurt us, which is unfortunate.

This has possibly also contributed to the continuing lack of new Stargate.

[ Main Image: Virtuality. Credit: Fox via Cancelled Sci Fi. ]

References

Cancelled Sci Fi (November 13, 2021). Cancelled Before It Began: Virtuality (2009).

Michelle (November 4, 2010). Brad Wright: SG-1, Atlantis Fans Hurt Stargate Universe. Solutions Blog.

Wikipedia. Ronald D. Moore. (viewed November 14, 2021)