Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Speak of the Devil, B... there's one on right now, "Bad Man's River" with Lee Van Cleef. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, B Smith wrote: > > > I like Encore Westerns too. They even trot out some of the better non-Leone > spaghetti westerns from time to time. > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com

[scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-17 Thread B Smith
I like Encore Westerns too. They even trot out some of the better non-Leone spaghetti westerns from time to time. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter wrote: > > Almost everything, Keith, even some of the sillier westerns, such as "Pancho > VIlla" with Telly Savalas and Clint Walker

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-15 Thread Keith Johnson
ruth, common sense, and common decency--is another victim of those horrible post-9/11 years where fear ruled this country. - Original Message - From: "Kelwyn" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:16:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [sc

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-15 Thread Mr. Worf
Chocolate News was hilarious! I don't think that it could have appeared on any other network but comedy central but they have a bad rep for keeping good shows too. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Kelwyn wrote: > Of course it is about profits. At the advent of the cable age we were > promised a

[scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-15 Thread Kelwyn
Of course it is about profits. At the advent of the cable age we were promised a thousand channels appealing to a thousand different constituencies. A different slice for everybody. What we got is extreme narrow casting, a thousand channels all showing L&O reruns. A major fly in this ointm

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread Mr. Worf
st ridiculously misleading. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Kelwyn" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:48:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling? > > > >

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread Keith Johnson
ond" they were first toying around with using? Anything that even remotely looks or sounds like "scifi" is just ridiculously misleading. - Original Message - From: "Kelwyn" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:48:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread Martin Baxter
A sad ray of truth, Mr Worf. [?] On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mr. Worf wrote: > > > To be honest, there aren't that many actual scifi shows that they have > left. They may as well rename the channel to the "Miscellaneous" channel. > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Kelwyn wrote: > >> The

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread Mr. Worf
To be honest, there aren't that many actual scifi shows that they have left. They may as well rename the channel to the "Miscellaneous" channel. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Kelwyn wrote: > The beginning of the end was when they changed the name to SyFy. They did > this so they wouldn't be

[scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread B Smith
Smackdown gets bigger ratings but in exchange they kill their original programming lineup. You'd think they would at least use it as a lead in for one of their Friday shows. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn" wrote: > > The beginning of the end was when they changed the name to SyFy.

[scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?

2010-05-14 Thread Kelwyn
The beginning of the end was when they changed the name to SyFy. They did this so they wouldn't be "restricted" by Sci-Fi programming. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson wrote: > > Well, how much more does SyFy plan to get away from the scifi motif? They > claim it's