I refuse to use Syfy anymore. But here's another article about the admission it made a mistake with its programming
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/28/syfy/
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/28/syfy/
Scifi's new programming
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Ascension and 12 Monkeys look great. Childhood's End was one of my favorite books growing up and I enjoyed Leviathan Wakes (the first of The Expanse novels), so I'm looking forward to those. All in all, a promising slate of new programming, and I'm happy to see SyFy getting back to its roots.
Gasp! You mean, Syfy actually promoted one of their shows...beyond the confines of the channel itself?!! And in a movie theater to boot?
I too am happy for the shift back towards scripted, and hopefully, quality series and miniseries. But my biggest fear is that they've done sooooo much damage to themselves by driving away audiences that wanted to watch the network, if these initial projects don't succeed at garnering impressive ratings right off the bat, that they won't have the drive to continue on the path, and retreat back to the likes of "Man-Octopus vs Dino-Potato Girl on Zombie Island".
I too am happy for the shift back towards scripted, and hopefully, quality series and miniseries. But my biggest fear is that they've done sooooo much damage to themselves by driving away audiences that wanted to watch the network, if these initial projects don't succeed at garnering impressive ratings right off the bat, that they won't have the drive to continue on the path, and retreat back to the likes of "Man-Octopus vs Dino-Potato Girl on Zombie Island".
I hope this has a trickle-down effect to other networks who have drifted away from their original programming mandates. I also hope it means they don't restrict themselves to new shows, but shows that they've missed in the interim, shows like Being Erica. And while they're at it, I hope they get rid of the Wrestling which never belonged there to begin with. Surely they can find a better channel for it to belong to.
I don't know. I'd hope they wouldn't give up the cheesy drive-in monster movies entirely. If you're in the right frame of mind, they can be fun.
Maybe once a week, every Saturday night?
And I refuse to concede that the Warehouse 13/Eureka/Being Human era was any sort of mistake. Those were great shows.
Yeah, I especially loved Eureka. Don't know how they can say that was a negative. There's nothing wrong with lighthearted. There's also nothing wrong with more serious shows either, but I do think that there should be a compromise, as I think both types can co-exist.
Agreed. I have high hopes for both of those.
Also, when does Sharknado 3 premiere?
Well, come January, Smack down will be moved to Thursday nights. Maybe a block of entertaining shows can return to populate a new Sci Fridays. I miss those days.
No definite date for Sharknado 3 yet. Just sometime in 2015.
And I'm looking forward to the final season of Lost Girl as well. Here's hoping it makes more sense than last season, so it can go out on a high note!
^^ Has Lost Girl ever made sense? 
I'm keeping my fingers crossed here. Ascension looks great, and I hope it lives up to that. I'm excited about Childhood's End and 3001. The series don't look as intriguing, with the exception of The Expanse. Stuff like Helix, Defiance, and 12 Monkeys doesn't do it for me.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed here. Ascension looks great, and I hope it lives up to that. I'm excited about Childhood's End and 3001. The series don't look as intriguing, with the exception of The Expanse. Stuff like Helix, Defiance, and 12 Monkeys doesn't do it for me.
Agreed. Nothing like a good bad movie.
Agreed again. Those are among my favorite shows of the modern era, along with Sanctuary.
They definitely should have that variety, but their "serious" stuff has a tendency to be cringe worthy. And the interview wasn't encouraging in that respect. "We can kill kids and dogs" is not the attitude I'm looking for.
For a glorious second there I thought that show was called Leviathan Frakes.
I'm looking forward to Ascension, Childhood's End and The Expanse. Less so 12 Monkeys, a movie I never enjoyed, or 3001, which is my least favorite book in the series.
As regards The Expanse, I've read the first book, Leviathan Wakes, and am curious as to how they're going to budget the series. That book is a space opera that would require multiple sets and an huge amount of CGI to pull it off. If Farscape was costing around two million an episode ten years ago, The Expanse would probably be more.
As regards The Expanse, I've read the first book, Leviathan Wakes, and am curious as to how they're going to budget the series. That book is a space opera that would require multiple sets and an huge amount of CGI to pull it off. If Farscape was costing around two million an episode ten years ago, The Expanse would probably be more.
I don't know, but I think it has a lot of promise to be good. It's just the attitude discounts the lighterhearted fare, painting that as a problem rather than their "reality" programming. It comes across as misguided to me. I watched BSG for awhile, but in the end found it hard to watch due to the tone it had throughout, and I think I'd appreciate something a little lighter. The thing that made me appreciate Eureka was that it didn't take itself too seriously, in fact I felt it had a lot of similar properties to Trek that a lot of modern sci-fi lacked.
That said though, there's a lot to look forward to from their new list of upcoming shows. One thing I'm puzzled about though is the popularity of 12 Monkeys, enough to make a TV show out of it. I saw the movie several years ago and I didn't think very much of it, didn't think it was that great.
Yes and no.
I didn't watch being Human so I'll just refer to the other two - they were 'fluff'. Enjoyable, well made and watchable, but insubstantial.
That isn't necessarily a problem in itself, but scifi and fantasy has until very recently struggled to be viewed as anything other than crappy ray gun or monsters fayre - Lost In Space and its ilk cast a long shadow.
A station called the Syfy Channel that is wall to wall crud or fluff simply perpetuates the public perception of all genre shows being so. If they've realised that Galactica was the way they should have continued and Game Of Thrones is what they could aim for, that's no bad thing imho...
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