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Thank you, you saved me the trouble of writing all of that. I totally agree with everything you wrote above. Amber, Foundation, Honorverse, Drake and Pournelle, etc, etc, etc. Throw in Niven and Sheffield… heck, just raid the nearest B&N’s SciFi section. Almost any random book you pick up would be vastly superior to the drivel on “SyFy” today.

petaQ!!

Yep, AlBme gets the ditto prize for that comment. Sci-Fi or SyFy or Dirty Feces or whatever Channel needs to go the way of the dodo and have real sci-fi fans create a real science fiction network.

LOL… I kind of caught drift of that, but I couldn’t find any good references that I felt comfortable referencing…

YOU, good reader, win today’s “knowing nod” of good comment. (Sorry, we don’t have any prizes, though you deserve one!)

-Bruce

How appropriate given their programming of the last few years.

2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything.
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SyFy = The Sci-Fi channels’ Death Knell. With the obvious effort at being a more “respectable” company, I see them slowly bleeding to death. Me-n-you = the lifeblood of this channel. People will drift away, eventually leaving them dead where they lay. It may be interesting to see what -cuts- they make and how fast they bleed out. (Wow, sounds a lil more morbid than intended) Just my opinion though.

I hope some other enterprising broadcaster scoops up the name “The Sci-Fi Channel” and dedicates it to science fiction and fantasy and that the channel does great while “SyFy” flounders and goes into bankruptcy.

Great minds do think alike, don’t they?

How cool would it be to have Turtledove’s Worldwar series turned into a mini-series? That is some great alternative history with a sci-fi angle on it and would be PERFECT for a channel that is supposed to support science fiction. Also good would be Stephen Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant trilogies. I doubt any of those will ever happen, though.

I wanted to be a real TV network programmer but all I could afford was this lousy SF network. Hey, I’ll change the name, rebrand everything and get rid of all the stuff that makes us unique and turn it into my dream, that is to look like every other bleeping cable channel in existence.

I HATE what this network has become. It is scary because it still has Eureka, which is actually quite nice, but it has backed out of virtually every possible unique attempt at quality programming that it has come across….Farscape, sorry too expensive (and then they sign up for Battlestar Galactica, wha?), Firefly, sorry not worth the fight. Then they halfass perfectly good stuff (Andromeda Strain, gawd what a debacle) and ignore the stuff that’s already out there to draw upon (Time Tunnel, the invaders, quark, quantum leap, twilight zone, outer limits, babylon 5, even mining MST3k for classic camp feature films)

How can you have hope for a niche network when the people running the network don’t even embrace their own niche?

There are loads of cool series concepts that should be available for develop, Zelazny’s Nine princes in amber series, azimov’s foundation, David Weber’s Honorverse, Drake and Pournelle’s mercenary series, Turtledove’s alternate history stories. Would love to see Brin’s Uplift series done right. Loads of old space opera to show. The genre isn’t second rate, the people picking the projects to develop are.