SciFi to SyFy?
If it was closer to April I’d swear this was a April Fool’s joke. SciFi Channel is changing it’s name. To SyFy. (I’ll pause for you to go from disbelief to a curse laden diatribe.)
Don’t believe me? Here’s a article in the NYtimes about the pending rebranding.
Morons. Moronic fraking morons. So moronic I should have guessed Bonnie Hammer is behind it. And they are going to change the nature of some of the programming.
“We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.”
The entire thing reads like a stupid marketing joke. I better stop here before Dave figures out how to bleep blog posts.
That article was so insulting, the people that run that network dont have a clue, Wrestling, ghost hunters, utterly craptastic original movies. After the Stargate shows ended, BSG was the last remaning show I watched. After thats gone, I will be blocking SyFy (WTF ?!?!?) from my channel list so I dont become enraged every time I see it.
“Changing the Programming”? Oh Good Grief – I hope good SF shows up SOMEWHERE since these morons are clearly killing it on their station. I’ve stuck with Hammer through thick and thin, but if the only time during the week I can stand watching them is for SGU, they will quickly lose yet another demographic – the family. We’ve watched everything from Dr. Who to Farscape to Stargate to BSG on that station. If they *really* want to do only horror, original (1 star) movies and wrestling, I hope they enjoy their 14 year old boy demo – the rest of us have better things to do with our lives.
*sigh*
It was nice while it lasted… Here’s hoping USA will pick up some of the slack…