# Sci-Fi Channel, what the Holy FRAK are you thinking?....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 14, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638 "2006-06-14T02:11:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/1 "2006-06-14T02:11:42Z")
Since when is frelling _Wrestling_ considered Science Fiction, yes it’s _clearly_ FICTION, but where’s the _science_…
Talk about completely missing your target audience, keep wrestling on the sports channels or local cable affiliates where it belongs, it _DOES NOT_ belong on the Sci-Fi channel…
This is almost as puzzling as BattleBots on Comedy Central, at least BattleBots would have made more sense on the Sci-Fi channel…
I frelling _hate_ wrestling, steroid-sucking muscleheads…
…please tell me that the ring will at least be invaded by Peacekeeper commandos with fully armed pulse weapons, frell, i’d be happy with a battle contingent of Scarran Warriors
If you _have_ to have frelling wrestling on the Skiffy channel, at least have the contenders properly kitted up for skiffy channel, have a Scarran Vs Luxan match, maybe a Meatbag toaster Vs. Toaster match, John Crichton Vs. Scorpius…
Frak, at least have the contestants have a Goa’uld forehead brand thingy…
Stupid skiffy channel, looks like the morons are back in control…
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/2 "2006-06-14T02:16:43Z")
Dude, you think that’s bad? I once watched an episode of Law and Order: SVU on Sci-Fi.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/3 "2006-06-14T02:34:29Z")
Yes Ecw doesn’t belong on Sci-fi just like Project Runway doesn’t belong on Bravo or L&O on A&E.
Its a mixed up, shuffled up crazy world.
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### Author:  [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/4 "2006-06-14T02:38:50Z")
I think I know why Sci-Fi is doing this. See, people who won’t normally watch Sci-Fi will now and maybe they’ll start watching for more than ECW thus increasing ratings. Not sure if it will work though.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/5 "2006-06-14T02:43:49Z")
Just a cheap ratings grab, if you ask me. With any luck ECW will die like the dog it is.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/6 "2006-06-14T02:59:01Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> Talk about completely missing your target audience, keep wrestling on the sports channels or local cable affiliates where it belongs, it _DOES NOT_ belong on the Sci-Fi channel…
Actually, it’s spot on for their demographics. Sci-fi fans are mostly males between 18 and 35, and wrestling fans are mostly males between 18 and 35. As bad a fit as it is content-wise, I suspect it’ll be a big success for them.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/7 "2006-06-14T03:03:04Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> Dude, you think that’s bad? I once watched an episode of Law and Order: SVU on Sci-Fi.
I think it’s some sort of law that _Law and Order_ has to be on every channel NBC owns.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/8 "2006-06-14T03:09:14Z")
True, but it’s not a good idea to get new viewers by pissing off their core audience…
call me a traditionalist, but the only thing on the skiffy channel should be, oh, I don’t know… SCIENCE FICTION programming…
you know, all incarnations of Trek, BSG, Stargate, Farscape, Dr. Who, heck, i’ll even give their cheesy in-house movies-of-the-week a pass, as they’re fun to mock, a-la MST3K
wrestling though?, that has no redeeming qualities, they certainly won’t be getting _me_ as a viewer
what needs to be created is the “gullible sheep/stupid crap” channel, have it carry wrestling, cold readers, shop-at-home crap, basically a catch-all channel for all the detritus out there…
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/9 "2006-06-14T03:21:14Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> wrestling though?, that has no redeeming qualities, they certainly won’t be getting _me_ as a viewer
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> what needs to be created is the “gullible sheep/stupid crap” channel, have it carry wrestling, cold readers, shop-at-home crap, basically a catch-all channel for all the detritus out there…
I’m not a wrestling fan, but I am amused at the assertion that wrestling is somehow of lesser quality than the crap they usually run. They’ve got some great shows… correction. They’ve got _a_ great show, and they’ve got twenty skajillion lame-ass made for TV movies that make your average wrestling bout look like The Royal Shakespeare Company. Frankly, I don’t think they give a damn about you. They want to get more of the sort of audience that is watching their latest movie about raptors eating people on an island, or spiders eating people on a ship, or spider-raptors eating people on an island-ship. If they cared about the fans like you, they’d still be making new _Farscape_ episodes.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/10 "2006-06-14T03:58:46Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> Since when is frelling _Wrestling_ considered Science Fiction, yes it’s _clearly_ FICTION, but where’s the _science_.
Chemistry is a science, and wrestlers take steroids, so there you go.
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/11 "2006-06-14T04:31:32Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#):
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> With any luck ECW will die like the dog it is.
Did Paul Heyman kill your parents or something?
Hey, ECW featured some sci-fi content. Didn’t you see “The Zombie” get his ass beat by Sandman? And what about the vampire that showed up out of nowhere?
Would I prefer that ECW be on USA? Yes. Would I prefer it be taped in a smaller arena with a more traditional ECW crowd? Yes. But at least it’s back on the air somewhere.
Oh, and by the way: “skiffy?” Lame.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/12 "2006-06-14T04:42:54Z")
Silly rabbit, it’s the Sci OR Fi channel.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/13 "2006-06-14T05:24:11Z")
Well I am a wrestling fan so now even though I think its a bizarre programming choice… I have to defend because MacTech is being a bit of a jerk about it.
We all get it now. Wrestling isn’t real. It outed itself over a decade ago. Its a show like any other show. It has characters and storylines and a lot of fight scenes. Its all over the top and built around the spectacle of it all.
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### Author:  [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/14 "2006-06-14T07:15:51Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> I’m not a wrestling fan, but I am amused at the assertion that wrestling is somehow of lesser quality than the crap they usually run. They’ve got some great shows… correction. They’ve got _a_ great show, and they’ve got twenty skajillion lame-ass made for TV movies that make your average wrestling bout look like The Royal Shakespeare Company. Frankly, I don’t think they give a damn about you. They want to get more of the sort of audience that is watching their latest movie about raptors eating people on an island, or spiders eating people on a ship, or spider-raptors eating people on an island-ship. If they cared about the fans like you, they’d still be making new _Farscape_ episodes.
I’m pretty sure their made-for-TV movies are supposed to be like a do-it-yourself MST3K kit. Just add witty comments. I’m sure there’s a few that watch it and take it seriously, but for the most part I think they’re made to be mocked.
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### Author:  [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/15 "2006-06-14T07:36:16Z")
> [@mobo85](#):
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> I think it’s some sort of law that _Law and Order_ has to be on every channel NBC owns.
No, it’s an ORDER!
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/16 "2006-06-14T09:03:50Z")
I think Sci-fi should make the wrestling more sci-fi related. Like maybe have an entire TV show based around the Mutai fighting tournaments on Babylon 5. 😃
Maybe use some CGI and special effects, and have characters from different movies fight. Yaknow, maybe The Running Man vs. Sarge (from Doom 3, of course). Or at least one of the bad guys from Arena. 😃
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/17 "2006-06-14T12:45:29Z")
Frell?
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/18 "2006-06-14T13:49:45Z")
Hmmm . . . I feel your pain, since The History Channel has become the “tanks an’ jets” channel, American Movie Classics no longer shows movie classics, and The Discovery Channel has become the “guys blowin’ stuff up” channel.
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/19 "2006-06-14T15:49:03Z")
Seems like EVERY nice cable channel will eventually stray from its roots and become a more-or-less general programming or “ifestyle” network.
Law and Order on Sci-Fi?
NHL playoffs on Outdoor Life Network?
The tens of home improvement and “flipping” shows on TLC?
I expect that sometime before I die, I’ll be watching Monday Night Football on Lifetime, and Sopranos reruns on Nickelodeon.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-channel-what-the-holy-frak-are-you-thinking/360638/20 "2006-06-14T16:01:07Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> . . . spider-raptors eating people on an island-ship.
Sadly, I would probably watch that.
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