Is Sci-Fi Channel losing it's way?
POSTED BY: bad2verse
UPDATED: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:51
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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
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The History channel is one of the few channels that haven't resorted to wrestling and reality shows. It does quality shows and sticks to the subject. It does have over 3000 years to cover and that helps a bit. (More Snippage)
I wish we could pay-per-channel, I'd only have to pay for Sci-fi, History, Discovery, ONE HBO, and MAYBE CNN...
And I agree with you agreeing ;) If a channel bothers to give itself a name (Like "History Channel") and build it's image on that name, then they oughta stick to it!
History Channel does that pretty well, even if it's a bit strange watching "Band of brothers" on there sometimes.. it seems kinda funny to have "TV drama type shows" when you're expecting documentaries.. I'm not explaining well, but you understand what I mean (I hope ;)...
(BTW, My Youngest is a Jr. This year, and my oldest and her husband just had my first Grandson.. which is totally way cool, until you think "I'm WAY too young to be "Grandpa")
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I know what you mean. I thought "Band of Brothers" was really well done for an historical drama. Of course HBO did it originally and History rebroadcast it. I think Tom Hanks had a hand in producing it after doing "Saving Private Ryan"
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Yep, they did it with the BBC. They also teamed up again for Rome. I they aren't going to do anything on tv with FF, why won't f*x at least team up and split production with another channel. I'd take that.
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Originally posted by kaneman:
Yep, they did it with the BBC. They also teamed up again for Rome.
I kinda got into Rome, But they moved it along kinda fast and killed off Caesar, etc.. and they didn't leave much material for another season... because after the Marc Antony and Cleopatra thing, things got kinda boring in Rome for the next hundred years or so ;)
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
I wish we could pay-per-channel, I'd only have to pay for Sci-fi, History, Discovery, ONE HBO, and MAYBE CNN...
Actually this may be happening. I heard at one point that the FCC was talking about making cable providers offer "a la carte" service which would allow you to only pay for the channels you wanted.
Anyone else hear more about that?
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
and Wrasslin getting high rating on Sci-fi??? Where's the sanity in THAT? I thought Sci-fi channel had a pretty loyal following (A pretty stable demographic of sci-fi lovers) and suddenly "Wrasslin" is getting high marks??? From Sci-fi lovers???
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It's not Sci-fi lovers that are giving the wrestling big numbers. It's wrestling fans, switching over to watch Sci-fi during wrestling, and then switching back. They may be hoping to land a few of those viewers by promoting Sci-fi shows during wrestling, but this tactic won't work.
I agree that a solid night of originals is needed to anchor the station, and then they should build from that. Stargate Atlantis, BSG and Dr. Who form a nice trio of shows for Friday, but they need to add more.
FX has done a great job of limited run (14 episodes or so) series. I don't know what their budget is, but can it be much different than Sci-Fi's? Shows like Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and (the now cancelled) Over There kind of put FX on the map. At the very least, the shows NBC doesn't want anymore (Surface, for example) should move over to Sci-Fi.
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
and Wrasslin getting high rating on Sci-fi??? Where's the sanity in THAT? I thought Sci-fi channel had a pretty loyal following (A pretty stable demographic of sci-fi lovers) and suddenly "Wrasslin" is getting high marks??? From Sci-fi lovers???
It's not Sci-fi lovers that are giving the wrestling big numbers. It's wrestling fans, switching over to watch Sci-fi during wrestling, and then switching back. They may be hoping to land a few of those viewers by promoting Sci-fi shows during wrestling, but this tactic won't work.
I agree that a solid night of originals is needed to anchor the station, and then they should build from that. Stargate Atlantis, BSG and Dr. Who form a nice trio of shows for Friday, but they need to add more.
FX has done a great job of limited run (14 episodes or so) series. I don't know what their budget is, but can it be much different than Sci-Fi's? Shows like Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and (the now cancelled) Over There kind of put FX on the map. At the very least, the shows NBC doesn't want anymore (Surface, for example) should move over to Sci-Fi.
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
I wish we could pay-per-channel, I'd only have to pay for Sci-fi, History, Discovery, ONE HBO, and MAYBE CNN...
Actually this may be happening. I heard at one point that the FCC was talking about making cable providers offer "a la carte" service which would allow you to only pay for the channels you wanted.
Anyone else hear more about that?
Yeah, bill was in Congress last year. I'm pretty sure the cable companies killed it.
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the way the SciFi channel runs itself is why I don't miss cable. The station is incompently run.
Their reason for axing Farscape, if I recall correctly, was that they wanted something that would get the 'female demographic.' This led to the infamous 'bra letter campaign' where thousands of women wrote in on their bras that they were in fact female, and had been watching the program. They were ignored.
And what was this miracle show to get the female demographics? Tremors.
I then looked at my cable bill, looked at what I was watching once that got the axe (forensic shows on Discovery) and had the plug pulled.
Best decision I made in years.
And a few notes. I think the idea of SciFi having their mitts on FF is frightening. Look what they did to Forever Knight. Bleech!
And to the suggestion of Disney....please, God, no. If they got it, they'd make Joss sign all rights away to them, shut down every web site that had piccys, fan fic or scripts. If you think Paramount is bad about that stuff, you never saw the Mouse Conglomerate in action folks. They're why 'fair usage' has come under so much fire and why copyrights are getting so that nothing will ever fall into common domain again if they get their way. They don't want to lose their corporate meal ticket which will happen if the Mouse ever drops to public domain and they know it. {/rant}
*gets down off soap box*
My apologies folks. I get a mite twitchy about the idea of SciFi or Disney getting their grubbies on our shiny show. Better one of the premium cable stations get it.
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RMMC
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Originally posted by FellowTraveler:
Yeah, bill was in Congress last year. I'm pretty sure the cable companies killed it.
*Pulls out surprise-o-meter and points at self* Hmmm, negative reading, somehow I'm not surprised.
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