Why does scifi always show crappy horror movie

[TEH BABA]

my god they could be rerunning farscape or b5 or bsg.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'd prefer Mansquito over some show I can just as easily get on DVD. At least Mansquito is new.

 

[zenophite]

basically because sci fi is a crappy channel.

 

[Aragorn]

Sci-Fi is basically a low-end cable network, despite the occasional Galactica here and Eureka there. Painkiller Jane and Flash Gordon were probably par for their course. Hell, just look at all those cheap titles from The Asylum that they air.

 

[stj]

The usual answer of course---SciFi makes money off them. Most get ratings about 1.0 and they are cheap, so they are profitable. And SciFi has now built up such a catalog they can hold theme marathons! Six giant snake movies in a row without paying out more money? Gotta go for it. They probably make more money off these suckers than they do off BSG, Dr. Who, Atlantis and Eureka combined.

The really shocking thing was, I saw one that was watchable without being stoned. (It was a zombie movie with Dean Cain.) It was probably an accident, though.

 

[zenophite]

I don't know about you all but I can't wait until they show:

Anaconda fights Cobra on the Volcano during a Twister caused by Meteorite with plenty of T&A except blurred for broadcast during Zombie outbreak: part 3

 

[Rÿcher]

some people are B movie fans, others are Sci-Fi movie fans.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't know about you all but I can't wait until they show:

Anaconda fights Cobra on the Volcano during a Twister caused by Meteorite with plenty of T&A except blurred for broadcast during Zombie outbreak: part 3

I was looking through the SFC schedule and in a couple of weeks I think they hit the nadir of crap creatures: "Flu Bird Horror". It sounds like a subtitle for some CNN special.

 

[Greg Cox]

Because they're cheap and get decent ratings?

I assume they'd wouldn't keep airing them if it wasn't working.

 

[Harvey]

Purely financial reasons, obviously. I'm sure if prestige programming like Battlestar Galactica or Farscape were as profitable, the network would be airing a slew of like shows. But, for the most part, it's not, so they devote most of their efforts towards cheap movies of the week that are instant financial successes. Hey, Dirk Benedict's got to work.