TV: One More Reason Why I Hate the Sci Fi Channel
By stephanie - Friday, May 26th, 2006
Can someone shoot the programming director over at the Sci Fi Channel? Now they are starting up a new show called Extreme Championship Wrestling. Look, I don’t have anything against wrestling, but it’s a SPORT, not science fiction.
What the hell is wrong with those people over there? Here we’ve got perfectly good sci-fi series like “Threshold” and “Invasion” being canceled on the major networks, and instead of just picking them up like candy, the people at Sci Fi are starting dumb reality shows and now moving into the wrestling biz.
Sci Fi, by the way, will be airing reruns of ABC’s canceled series “Night Stalker,” with four unaired episodes available on the DVD. They are also going to be showing “Invasion” repeats.
But that’s far too little for my tastes. Can we have more original science fiction shows, please?
My ultimate prediction? The Sci Fi Channel, run by morons who don’t understand the genre, will at some point give up the ghost and turn the network into some sort of men’s network along the lines of TNN (originally The NASHVILLE Network, then TNN, and now Spike TV).
Mark my words. That day will come.
May 26th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Couldn’t have said it better myself!