What's become of the Sci-Fi channel?

[Tyme2tyme]

The Sci-Fi channel put another nail in it's coffin when they started showing professional wrestling. I know it's fiction but it's not SCIENCE fiction, JOHN

[txteach]

I actually liked the strgate series and am waiting on new episodes of Eureka so it does still have some good programming. I agree that they make the cheeziest movies.

[The Toyroom]

The only thing I watch on Sci-Fi anymore are the Twilight Zone marathons on New Year's Day and Fourth of July....but since I've been getting the season DVDs I'm thinking of doing my own marathons on those days and skip all of the Sci-Fi commercials, which are endless.

[bobws]

i only watch for the Doctor Who seasons and if they show the Sarah Jane Adventures.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Have they switched to Scyfy yet? Was that for real even?

They show wrestling on Sci Fi now. Now, wrestling is certainly more fictional than most of their shows, but where's the science?

When they quit showing Kolchak, SMDM, and 70s Spider-Man, I quit watching.

TV Land only shows about 4 vintage shows ad nauseum now. The rest is bad reality TV.

Chris

[jwyblejr]

When ECW first aired,they had that one wrestler that thought he was a vampire but he didn't last long.

[livingdead70]

I know what happend, a couple of fat guys with marketing degrees got together and ruined it by concentrating not what shows they aried, but what $$$ they could make inbetween the shows. They tried to market to an audience, when they didnt realize they already had one. And the audience they did have they exceled in running them off by showing crap movies, wrestling and BS original shows.
Probaly why its so all over the place now, and they are reinviting themselves as Sy-Fy next month. They arent sure what shows to air around the commercials, hence the wierd programing choices. What these idiots with degrees dont get is they have issued a death warrant for the channel. Running all the people like us off, and trying to catch that teen male and 20 something audience. I betcha in 5 years it wont be around anymore.
Does anyone actually watch it anymore? I havent really in years, from a time when It be about the only channel I watched.
trey

[Mikey]

Does anyone actually watch it anymore?

The only thing I watch on it is when they show FIRST RUN episodes of Doctor Who.

Which means I watch a total of 13 hours of SciFi Channel per year.

[LOU]

Sci Fi Channel and TV Land seems to be going down the same path.

Both have EXTRA LONG commercial breaks lately.

Both have seemed to given up on their core 30's-40's-ish audience and now are going for a younger crowd.

Both have replaced they're main bread and butter (classic shows) with original programming.

Both now show movies that don't have anything to do with what their channel is about.

In other words -- both suck

Words to live by here T1K. My wife and I say the same damn thing..."what the hell happened to these once great networks?!" I LOVED Sc-Fi back in the day; in fact, it's the reason we are DirecTV customers today as I bought the dish way back in 1997ish for $1000 just so I could FINALLY see The Six Million Dollar Man again after nearly two decades! Our cable company did not carry Sci-Fi back then so it was the only way to get the channel. MTV? Same thing...what exactly is "music" about the supposed 'Music Television" today? Am I wrong in thinking that the classic "M" logo no longer stands for music? Perhaps it's now "Miscellaneous TV" or "Mindless TV" or "Moron TV"...I don't know. It just seems like everything goes to hell afterawhile. I say bring back the Sci-Fi channel with all the old Sci-Fi shows again...Hey we can dream...

[Mikey]

Funny thing is, when Sci Fi channel and TV Land both premiered, my cable company didn't carry either.
They picked them up years later when they already started sucking.

Today i'm told there are 2 other cable channels that play a lot of the old shows TV Land and Sci Fi channel used play ... but, of course my current cable company don't carry them channels.

My cable company is always years behind.

[kennermike]

yeah its Retro Television Network .I thought RTN was also on cable ?

[Steeler80]

As people have said, they've forgone the old sci-fi classics for D grade suk-fi movies that no one rents from the video store. For every good thing they come up with like the new Battlestar, there's a ton of stuff that isn't any good.

[60'schild]

Gave up on both of them years ago. I now spell my classic SF and retro television fix, this way .... D V D !!!

[tay666]

I used to watch it, now it is just a joke. With all the lame stuff they through on Sci-Fi now, it is hard to believe that a show like "Dog Soldiers" was a Sci-Fi original flick.

Dog Soldiers wasn't a Sci-Fi original.
It was a UK movie that Sci-Fi grabbed and claimed as their own.
The DVD was released in 2002, long before Sci-Fi ever picked it up.
Most of the good movies that they label as Sci-Fi originals aren't.
They are independant or international films that Sci-Fi tries to prop up their image with.

[jwyblejr]

Now they're starting off the 4th of July Twilight Zone marathon by showing the stuff from the short lived 80s series. I think I'm now done with them.