What's happening to SciFi?

[OUCaptain]

They follow up Warehouse 13 with wrestling. Seriously folks.. WTF? It's certainly Fi but definitely not Sci. Who's lame brained idea was this? What business does it have on this channel. I really want to know. They may have been doing this for a while but I just got cable again a little while ago.

 

[reallyscrued]

Maybe they were working in conjunction with the people who decided to make a movie about insect like aliens who have to deal with apartheid in South Africa.

 

[raystorm]

You mean what happened with SyFy

SyFy...what the hell is that.

 

[rudder]

They have had wrasslin on there for a while... one less channel for me to watch now.

 

[nageov3t]

they're kind of a throw-away network in the NBC portfolio... they take cast-offs from USA on occasion.

 

[coloumb]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...jul02,0,1033720.column

http://www.tvweek.com/news/200...el_aims_to_shed_ge.php

They wanted to become less geek and more dumbed down for the network viewers.. 🙂

 

[OUCaptain]

Originally posted by: raystorm
You mean what happened with SyFy

SyFy...what the hell is that.

No. I mean SciFi. I refuse to acknowledge any attempt at a hip name.

I can understand being a throw away network but at least keep to the god damn fucking genre.

 

[FoBoT]

all the specialty cable channels want to be anything channels

 

[Schadenfroh]

No. I mean SciFi. I refuse to acknowledge any attempt at a hip name.

They are not trying to be hip, they could not trademark SciFi because it was too generic.

It is the same reason you have the Pentium now instead of 586.

 

[Gothgar]

ftl

 

[waggy]

Actually the reason SCI-fi has wrestling is simple. it is owned by the same channel that owns USA network. and WWE wanted another show on cable TV but NOT on USA so they put it on sci-fi.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
They follow up Warehouse 13 with wrestling. Seriously folks.. WTF? It's certainly Fi but definitely not Sci. Who's lame brained idea was this? What business does it have on this channel. I really want to know. They may have been doing this for a while but I just got cable again a little while ago.

Wrestling's been on it for a long while. Scifi is owned by USA networks and they wanted another wrestling show.

Oh waggy already answered it.