why in the world was ECW wrestling on the Sci-Fi Channel last night?

for that matter, why did Law & Order run on Sci-Fi a few weeks ago?

how long before Sci-Fi officially changes to NBC2 rather than just the dumping group for bad direct to video movies?

The Sci-Fi channel is becoming the MTV of the new cable generation.

Soon they will have to come up with Sci Fi2 to put the correct shows on.


Wishing I had "Boomerang" so I could watch real cartoons on a Cartoon Network...

Wouldn't surprise me if that's their actual gameplan. There's only so big they can grow if they focus exclusively on sci-fi, after all.

*Sigh*, I still like SciFi Channel, I just wish they'd keep doing what they're best at.

It happens with all the channels. they all branch away from what they are supposed to be about.

So History Channel becomes the Modern Marvels channel-history, yes. Of paint.

Discovery becomes the chopper channel. Then they spin off a National Georgraphic channel to show animals.

The video game channel starts showing Star Trek.

Nick at nite starts showing recent shows, so TV Land is developed to show the shows from the 50s and 60s. Until they start showing Cheers and Cosby and Benson and Three's Company too.

VH1 becomes the channel that shows Hulk Hogan (premier was the highest ever on the channel) and poip culture lists.

American Movie Classics starts showing Friday the 13th Part VIII, and not at Halloween.

and the highest rated shows on the Travel Channel-is poker.

and the Cartoon network starts showing live action movies.

But ratings go up, I guess, as you appeal to more people. So all channels start becoming the same.

I'm glad I get Boomerang.

Channels will eventually disappear.

With the multiple DVRs I have now (2 from Dish Network and 1 original Tivo device) I've completely lost track of what channel shows what program. Just do a search, or rely on programmed suggestions and you're all set.

I have none yet. I kinda like having set time to watch shows, or flipping around and finding something. Stinks when nothing is on though, but I don't know, I think this would encourage me to watch even more tv,which i don;t want to do,

I thought it would cause me to watch more TV, too, but the reverse wound up happening.

That hasn't been my experience. What it has done, through time shifting, is given me the ability to watch television I want to watch when it is convenient for me. That is to say better television rather than more. No more choosing between an evening out and the new episode of X or watching a grade C movie because that's the only thing on at the moment. I also gain the ability to watch baseball and a regular television show simultaneously, getting more TV in less actual time.

Perhaps I'm naive in my thinking...

But it seems to me, that there ought to be a Law & Order Cable Channel, if there isn't one already. And while there are enough episodes of all the incarnations and seasons, I don't mean showing the actual Law & Order (unless they want to), but Cop Channel seemed too basic.

Then, much like Sci Fi resurrected shows that hadn't found homes in ages, we could be entertained by T.J. Hooker, McCloud, Charlie's Angels, Hardcastle & McCormack..

AUTOMAN!!!

And various other shows through the bygone years of television.

I must admit I am being something of a luddite about it. That plus I don't want to pay Cablevision any more money.

verizon is going to be offering Cable by September in my area, so maybe prices will be better for cable now that there will be competition for the first time ever for cable (Satellite didn't seem to have an impact).

It's pretty hard to get away with a network with *zero* variety. If your trend goes out of fashion, you're doomed.

MTV was a huge hit in the 80s, but when they turned their attention to (of all things) game shows, they scored their biggest ratings hit to date with Remote Control. They only got bigger ratings as they expanded out into other, non-musical genres.

And VH-1... well, it's pretty much the nostalgia channel for 30-somethings. That's how it was originally marketed for playing nice, safe hits for Baby Boomer consumption along side the hits of their drug-addled youth (it was just funny when you started noticing harder edge music being played on VH-1 than MTV, as bands like AC/DC moved into the nostalgia arena). It's really not much of a surpise that they'd ditched music almost entirely to feed the Gen X pop-culture hunger.

One of my favorite *huh* cable moments was when TNN (The Nashville Network) started playing Star Trek: The Next Generation in the months leading up to becoming Spike TV.