Sc-fi channel no more
 

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.....:ohwell:

This doesn't surprise me. The niche channel is dead.

Basically a Bravo clone.

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So it's just re-branding....it's not like it's dying.

I'm surprised I didn't even know about this one...I'm not happy or sad about it...because I don't really know what it entails for the future of the network. Sci-Fi is an okay network in my opinion right now...I just hope there's not the same decline in quality that we've had with Cartoon Network, TBS, and the Disney Channel.

Isn't it sad when they have to mention that it's a 'scripted drama' as a selling point?

Syfy? It sounds more like a five year old couldn't spell 'sci-fi' and made their own spelling. :???:

I could care less. Battlestar Galactica notwithstanding, this network has trashed every bit of Sci-Fi they ever got their hands on.

If they want to re-brand themselves and run Touched By An Angel and Murder She Wrote reruns, then have at it. I quit watching them years ago.

And people wonder why they're losing ratings. Soon every cable channel will just air reruns of crappy 90's programming. Seriously, who hires these people? If you can't get ratings by showing an alternative to everything else, you shouldn't be a network period.

lame.

the station sucks anyways..they hack up drwho eps pretty bad.

That's probably how they thought it up. :P I'm imagining a show & tell with a little poster that reads, "my dady werks for the syfy chanel". ^_^

Well...I just care about Ani-Mondays. Their "original" programming doesn't really get my attention too much any more. I also like the reruns of Star Trek/TNG/Deep Space Nine/Enterprise, etc.

But if they go the route of Cartoon Network becoming "CN" ("Chicken Nuts") to show non-sci-fi/crappy stuff, I'll be disappointed, but not surprised.

Have you seen some of the Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies? Gah, some of them make Ed Wood Jr. look like Spielberg.

Oh, I avoid those like the plague. I just hope they don't go any lower than what they are now...because it would be a stake in the heart to lose my last reliable source for interesting anime on Mondays (especially with the demise of Toonami).

They apparently had a whole department working on this name change.

Ha.

A whole department = Kindergarten classroom?

Yeah, I haven't turned it to CN for anything but Adult Swim in years now, and that doesn't really count since they don't run Adult Swim anyway. Of course, I watch less TV every year anyway. If a show doesn't involve doctors and cops, it gets canceled.

The only time I tune into CN these days is Friday nights for Batman Brave & the Bold and Secret Saturdays. Both are awesome shows.

Pft, Chowder and Flapjack are where it's at.

The first time I saw the preview for a 100% live action movie on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, I knew I had witnessed the beginning of the end of the niche channel era. That said, I didn't really watch Sci Fi regularly outside of the occasional Godzilla and Mystery Science Theatre reruns.