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- TheBlueOne0
From the CNN article: ""The last thing we want to do is alienate our core audience," he added. With the new name, shows such as "Galactica" can be exposed to a wider audience, one not scared away by all that "Sci Fi" connotes ("space and aliens and the future," in Howe's words)."
Look I just don't get it. Like I said a solid chunk of the best selling movies in history are science fiction - you know with space and aliens and the future and stuff. Some of the best and /or most marketed TV shows in recent years have been scifi - Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes. SciFi has produced some of the most consistently taught literature in schools (1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Hobbit). I mean what "wider audience" do you want without somehow so dumbing down or being disingenious to your core content programing. Who else do you think you can appeal to? Chick flick movie fans? (Yeah, see where those numbers stack up on the best selling movies of all time. Go ahead, I'll wait.) No one is "scarred away" by science fiction except the people who will never watch the "Science Fiction " channel in the first place even if you call it "SyFy". My mother doesn't get science fiction, never will. "I don't understand why you have to watch green people." Changing the name of the channel to "SyFy" is NOT going to attract those types of people ever. Just like Oxygen will never, ever attract cage fighting fans.
- scaredversion3
- Yes, thank you. Scared. No one is scared away.TheBlueOne
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