Comments on: Sci-Fi Morphs Into SyFy – Are You Ready?

By: Kellt

Kellt — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:51:07 +0000

I just turned off SyFy. It is showing Fight Club, Yeah U heard right.
Brad Pitt Fight Club. SyFy has become the tool for whatever major movie network that took it over to dump their pick of the week trash. Don’t get me wrong I like Fight Club, but on a channel whose history has been Horror and chessy SiFi movies. Wrestling, Anime and James Bond movies. I am old but even not that old that I don’t like chessy horror flicks.

They just had to mess it up.

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Warehouse 13 Review & Discussion - Screen Rant — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:32:19 +0000

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By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:15:40 +0000

Dude, Mark…

That so doesn’t help. It will start here in 1 hour, and the ads have done nothing for me to want to watch it and now your take on the show just killed whatever forced enthusiasm I’ve been trying to trick myself into! LOL…

All joking aside, I’m just gonna hit it up in as neutral a mind as possible and we’ll all talk about it soon!

Bruce

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:59:46 +0000

Sci-Fi or SyFy..WHO CARES?

All I know is can I sue Syfy for the 2 hours they stole from me by watching the WORST program I have ever seen?…Yes, I am speaking of Warehouse 13.

That show SUCKS…NO SERIOUS OR FUNNY PLOT, ACTORS ARE NOT CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AND OVERALL THE SHOW IS ALL OVER THE PLACE…NO DIRECTION WHAT SO EVER!!!

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:43:24 +0000

They probably consider Alien Nation a good deal because it’s science fiction with few VFX shots and the ability to use current locations for shooting instead of lots of new sets … their biggest expense will be the makeup. I never got into the original, so this doesn’t really move me one way or the other. Especially if they just make it a police procedural with aliens.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:04:11 +0000

Yea – I mentioned that in this article…

How’s everyone feel about that? Another remake. Oh goodie.

By: 790

790 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:21:15 +0000

I heard tonight that Alien Nation has been greenlit as a remake tv show. Possibly to air later on SyFy.

By: Mr. Paul

Mr. Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:03:21 +0000

I’m sorry… this is still the gayest name, ever.

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By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:04:08 +0000

I hear ya piratedan.

They actually admitted to the cheese factor of their Saturday night movies… and yet, they do well enough on that night to warrant them to continue to have fun with these high pressurized blood squirt movies…

If they have at least one good show a season for me to hook onto, I’m good with whatever they do.

By: piratedan

piratedan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:33:28 +0000

made my feelings known about this rebranding in the earlier thread. While this guy has a proven track record with other network programming, I simply hope that they mine the genre and develop shows properly. I have yet to see any remake that they have done that was worth the time with the notable exception of the Battlestar Galactica series and their successful mining of the stargate series.

What I like about the network as it stands, lots of great reruns from various trek incarnations to the X-Files to the twilight zone and outer limits and other limited run shows.
Some of the original programming isn’t bad, i.e. Eureka.

What I dislike is all the attention paid to the horror stuff and the bad monster movies. Also, if you’re gonna remake a classic, i.e. the andromeda strain, try and make it at least as entertaining as the original or don’t bother. For the love of Hulk Hogan, can the wrestling wouldya?

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:27 +0000

It’s not specifically a Google thing, but rather, the ability of the network to copyright their own name and be unique. I actually get that.

And yes, we can all hope that they learn their lessons and try to at least create intermittent successes.

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:44:49 +0000

In recent years, I usually have trouble finding a show on the SciFi Channel that interests me enough to actually watch. And I’m a “Sci Fi fan.” Some of that has to do with my schedule, but it always seems like when I check to see what’s on, it’s some schlocky monster movie, horror movie, or Ghost Hunters. The programming makes the channel name meaningless. The lesson they should take from Battlestar: Galactica is “if you program it, they will come.” Instead, it seems the lesson they learned is that they should make their next Stargate series dark and gritty. I agree with both of the above posts … the programming makes the difference, not the name.

By: GUNSMITH

GUNSMITH — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:29:16 +0000

HEY SPELLING THINGS WRONG IS COOL-CAN YOU RENEW TERMINATOR SARA CONNORS CHRONICLES?….

By: Malathus

Malathus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:16:27 +0000

I will continue to watch Syfy, or Sci-Fi as it were, much as I have for the last 15 years or so. They have always had hits and misses, and as long as the core stays the same, a name change is something I can ignore.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:49:36 +0000

So this is born out of Google search engine exclusivity.

Wherehouse 13 reminds me of Hanger 18 and the premise sounds like “Friday the 13th The Series”…
But then Syfy reminds me of SciFi hmmm.
I’m sure after spending millions on this name change the network thinks it will payoff. Personally it has no impact on me…