People who watch the SciFi Channel are seeing very little science fiction in that channel’s daily lineup these days. The money makers who run this channel have cashed in on the all the latest crazes, from dinosaurs to disasters. Monsters, vampires, horror, fantasy, diseases and, of course, dragons. People in black leather and black hoodies. Capes and swords. Witches and warlocks and shape-shifters. Flying sailboats. Ghosts. That kind of stuff.
It’s not science fiction by any stretch of the imagination. But it certainly sells.
The bottom line.
(Author's Note 7-22-09: A year after this posting, the SciFi Channel changed it's name from SciFi to SyFy. What that tells most of us is that the little bit of science fiction and the overabundance of Fantasy programming we'd been seeing now fits the channel's name. In other words, SyFy = Science Fiction and Fantasy. With all the monsters, vampires, ghosts, creepy characters and romance, I'd say the name SyFyHorSoap should be the official name of the former SciFi channel. What's next? Cartoons?)
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