Pro Wrestling on the SciFi Channel?!!
Reader Tsmacro sent me an article that made my jaw drop. According to Zap2it.com, the SciFi Channel is...oh God, I'll just quote them, it's less painful than typing the words myself:
World Wrestling Entertainment and NBC Universal are extending their relationship, bringing the resurrected Extreme Championship Wrestling to the Sci Fi Channel for a summertime run.Riiiight. I have a hard time thinking of anything more appropriate to a science fiction network than a run of mindless pseudo-sports whose chief characteristic is appealing to the lowest (and by lowest, I mean worst, not broadest) common denominator.
Because when you think of pro wrestling, you think of the Sci Fi Channel.
Now, I know there are those people—one of them is even a friend of mine, but I won't mention his name—who find this sort of drivel entertaining. But it's beyond me why. Okay, maybe I'm a little sensitive because I happen to be interested in the actual sport of wrestling, as opposed to the crap that gets actual airtime as alleged wrestling, but still. This is a very, very bad idea. I can only hope that the fans will crucify the network brains that came up with this one.
As a possible antidote to this nonsense, I'll just pass on a story from the New Scientist. Here it is:
NEWSFLASH: Artificial penis allows rabbits to mate normally.So, guys, here's one big worry you can let go of, eh?
In a “landmark development” researchers have grown penile tissue that has allowed rabbits with damaged sexual organs to successfully mate.
Labels: public affairs, science fiction
posted by Jeffrey A. Carver @ 2:12 AM
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8 Comments:
I haven't had cable for years, not since moving out to the middle of nowhere, but when I did have it the sci-fi channel angered me regularly.
First with how they destroyed the show Sliders after buying it from FOX. Then when they cancelled Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Pro Wrestling? Obviously they are run by people who have no concept of what sci-fi fans are like. Science Fiction people are typically smart and want smart television. Pro Wrestling is designed for exactly the opposite type of audience. A dumb audience, an audience that is amused by things like The Water Boy or American Pie or The Fast and The Furious.
And thank goodness for those rabbits, I was really worried the population might die out.
Hey. I like wrestling AND the Sci-Fi channel and couldn't believe it.But like tsmacro mentioned, remember when MTV actually showed videos?
i've been out of the cable loop for sometime now....what have they done to TLC? I liked them.
I was actually unaware of most of the "channel evolution" that you described, ts. I get cable, but a really basic version with one little digital-extras package thrown in, so I don't currently get SciFi or any of the others that you mentioned. I had no idea that TLC had stopped being an educational channel.
One channel I do get is National Geographic, and I'm shocked at how sensationalistic and cheezy much of its programming is. I had expected a higher standard.
I disagree with your comment about Foxnews being the most popular because they have so much flair and drama. No the real reason is that they are the only conservative news channel. Someone at the FOX corporation is brilliant. If you look at everything else that fox represents, it's just as liberal if not more liberal than the other networks but they were able to recognize that no news channel represented conservative america. And so what happens when all the conservatives watch one news channel and all the liberals have a dozen other ones to choose from? FOX instantly becomes the most popular. Brilliant.
You may be at least partly right, Tim, but I think there's no doubt that flashy and sensationalistic news coverage draws viewers. In Boston, Ch. 7 (local) news underwent a change that made it distinctively flashy and sensationalistic (crime sells!), just like their sibling station in Miami. I don't know that they're any more conservative than the other stations, but they started to draw audience from them and pretty soon all the other news stations in town started emulating them, just battling for ratings.
I can't believe some of the old horror shows that they consider scifi, but wrestling??
sci-fi canal
Humm the wrestling show seems to be doing quite well, and they use it to lead in to their newer developmental series and debut shows. so much for mindless wrestling.
Its just good marketing is all its not going to corrupt Sci Fi!! relax
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