Wrestling, Scifi Not a Marriage Make

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

A genre buff 'till the end, I go to the Scifi Channel for refuge. Tuesday nights I watch the reruns of Ghost Hunters International with glee. Then the hour strikes: no more ghosts, but wrestlers and dopes!

Scifi must make a lot of dough from these guys. A sport it is not. Entertainment, well, for the complacent. Still why wrestling on a genre flavored channel? Money I venture to guess.

As a genre geek, a few things I would like to see at the SyFy Channel (name change July 7th): First, no more wrestling. Second, better movies; why B rated flicks? Third, save shows from other networks (second season of Moonlight, anyone). Fourth, save shows from SyFy stupidity (Dresden Files). And last, but not least: no more wrestling!

Imagine Greater: Imagine a channel with good, smart, and sassy genre entertainment.

Now if I could only get the paid commercials off the channel, I would be set to watch in the middle of the night while I updated the site.

Same old Scifi; New Logo

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

July 7th and the Scifi Channel will become SyFy. What's the difference? Same old contempt for the genre, all new way of screwing up our favorite shows, novels, and movies.

Why the switch? According to the network, Scifi is so generic the name cannot be trademarked. Syfy however is unusual and can be trademarked.

To viewers the switch is a waste of money and the new logo with "Imagine Greater" is defunct. I have imagined greater, sent an email, and within six months those changes are employed. (Twice. Why am I not employed by Scifi?) Another reason why Universal, NBC, and their executives don't get the genre or the fans.

We're lucky the pencil pushers renew Ghost Hunters. Has anyone else seen Destination Truth? Neither have we. One more show disappears into the chasm known soon as the Syfy Channel.

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Source: The New York Times and Syfy