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09/03/09
09/03/09
It's probably exactly as "syence-fyctional", which is probably more relevant.
-Kle.
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In io9's interview with Howe on March 24, 2009, he stated the following regarding SyFy's name change:
"The thing that I think disturbs us most was, people, as we expected, saying 'Well this is just another opportunity to put more ECW on the air.' Or, 'This is another opportunity to do even more reality.' That isn't true and recent announcements [prove otherwise]. We've picked up Caprica, it'll launch in the new year. We've picked up Stargate Universe, the next exciting chapter of the longest running space opera in TV history. This isn't about retrenching, this is about absolutely embracing the totality of not just our core audience but actually, a new audience in the future."
I responded by saying:
Quite frankly, your comments have the same ring as speeches we've all heard as employees when a company embarks on an unpopular and universally disapproved change. A corporate manager comes and makes a speech. The executive says "We're not really doing what it seems like we're obviously doing." We all know that it's a bunch of baloney and we also he's just doing his job.
Putting on more ECW or reality programming? That's exactly what you're going to do. You're disturbed? Of course, you're disturbed - it's your job to peddle this stuff and people have called you out on it before you even introduced the logo. Nobody likes to be called out.
Let's face it. If you had any other plan, you wouldn't be saying "...this is about absolutely embracing the totality of not just our core audience but actually, a new audience in the future."
What did you just say? Absolutely nothing.
But you can't come out and say "We are making this channel less about science fiction."
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09/03/09
Science fiction? Also fake. The "fiction" part is a dead giveaway.
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All of this will only happen if a cooking show turns out to have been a good idea.
09/02/09
Only, not.
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09/02/09
This will be the Siffy cooking show -- showing how to prepare lovely meals out of the corpse of their relevance.
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