Bonnie Hammer is Outta There…Well, Sort Of…
By stephanie - Monday, January 21st, 2008
Hallelujah! Bonnie Hammer is stepping back from the day-to-day operations of the SciFi channel, and Dave Howe will be replacing her. I’m not sure if this is great news, however. The crowing puff piece in Variety gushed about both of them, saying that they turned SciFi into a profitable enterprise by moving the channel towards a “non-geek” audience.
Meanwhile, no mention was made in the article of how universally hated Bonnie has been amongst sci-fi fans, nor how most of their new shows have tanked miserably in the ratings.
While we’re all breathing a sigh of relief that Bonnie is no longer in charge, it remains to be seen whether Howe will return SciFi back to its science fiction origins or continue to dangerously dilute the channel in search of that ever-elusive “non-geek” audience. Because heaven forbid, we certainly don’t want those horrible geeks as customers. Yeesh.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
While I would definitely bring out the band to have Bonnie stepping down, I see no mention of the network-assassin Mark Stern. Unfortunately we millions of “geeks” have buying power, and as I type “Stargate: The Ark of Truth” is at #15 on Amazon’s list of Bestsellers for ALL DVD’s, and it won’t even be on the shelves for another 7 weeks.
Silence fills the hallways on the subject of the writer’s strike and the role these very same TV whiz kids played in precipitating the need for the writer’s protection.
I leave you with a thought I was taught in grade school and one which Mark & Bonnie seem to’ve forgotten with age. Geeks rule the world, and they would be wise to remember this.