Keith, I got pulled away from this for a moment (oddly, trying to see what was on Siffy this morning -- "Joan of Arcadia", for only the fourth time in the past month (programming moe-rons)), and a thought came to me as I returned to the keyboard.
Back-channel deals. Maybe Siffy gets a chunk of change under the table every time they show that crap from the producers. Sounds odd, I know, but this is H'Wood of which I speak. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 03:37:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers? Yeah, even though I've seen Twilight Zone and Outer Limits a bazillion times, surely they're not that expensive? And speaking of shark movies, even their move there was puzzling. They showed two or three really awful, cheesy shark movies one night, and then at 1 am, they showed "Deep Blue Sea". Now "Deep Blue Sea" is kinda cheesy, but it's a fun movie, well done, and I enjoy watching it. Why would they relegate it to the wee hours and show the really crappy movies in primetime? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:56:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers? There has to be older scifi movies that are the same price as the crappy new ones that they are playing. They have been showing a movie called Spring Break Shark Attack... Just the name alone tells you that it is bad. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com> wrote: I think that get high ratings for the shows and syndication is probably cheaper. They chased me away long ago. I check in avery once in a while, but they are very reliable with their horrible programming (from my perspective) From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:18 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers? So we had a long holiday weekend, and, going into it, I prepared myself for another weekend of marathons. You know: Twilight Zone all day Saturday, "Enterprise" or TNG on Monday. Maybe some "Eureka" or BSG thrown in for good measure. But know what we got instead? All day Sunday, the "reality" show "Destination Truth", and all day Labor Day, "Ghost Hunters". WTF??? Look, SyFy has a huge backlog of scifi series, successful and canceled, that they can show. There's "The Dresden Files", "Special Unit 7". there's even that creepy show with Matthew Fox that took place in a weird hospital. What about old eps of "First Wave"? I'd take that over searches for urban legends and local myths. Hell, they can pull out Space: Above and Beyond if they want. I'd watch it over those idiot Ghostbuster wannabes. Fortunately I wasn't home very much, so didn't have to depend on the telly for entertainment. B ut when I was home? I watched marathons of "Ben 10: Alien Force", "Wolverine and the X-Men", and science fact shows "The Universe" and "Planet Earth" instead. Sad that I'm more excited to watch cartoons more than a supposed science fiction channel all weekend. -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009
