Community | May 02, 2010 | 5 comments

So long, nerds! Syfy doesn’t need you

source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36698985/ns/today-entertainment/#ixzz0mnXmTpIV

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Syfy no longer caters for nerds. It is time for someone to start a real scifi tv. All nerds should revolt against syfy for pushing away nerds from the prime time. Here follows description from msnbc:

Presumably fulfilling its post-rebranding promise to “Imagine Greater,” the former Sci Fi Channel — now known as Syfy — has imagined its way right out of the niche that made the cable network.

Forget about space operas, tech dramas or B-movie monsters (except for “Mega Piranha” — never forget “Mega Piranha”), programming shake-ups reveal Syfy is ready to live up to its theme-less new name. If the recent announcement that “Top Chef” alum Marcel Vigneron would be joining the network for a cooking show called “Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen” wasn’t proof enough, Syfy’s acquisition of “Friday Night SmackDown” should be.

Not that Syfy really wants anyone catching on to that fact. Much like shoehorning the word “quantum” into the title of Vigneron’s upcoming gastronomic offering acts as a symbolic nod to traditional viewers, Syfy’s president, David Howe, hopes he can even convince fans that wrestling somehow fits the old and largely abandoned genre, too.



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5 comments // So long, nerds! Syfy doesn’t need you

  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • They may not need nerds, but from the Stargate Universe away team
      seen in the photo, they sure as hell need Allana Huffman. She's also
      Black Canary of the Justice League on Smallville. And yes, she's a
      HOT blond. The world needs hot blue eyed blonds even at NYC's SyFy.
      Bro, how could I not vote this up when you were kind enough to feature
      Allana, the eye candy, Huffman !

    • 2 years ago
  • humanpasta
  • bombastinator
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      bombastinator  
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    • depends on how he's doing the cooking. There is some very very sci fi cooking going on these days.

      If they are doing a molecular gastronomy show it could actually be a new nerd high (and a must see imho)
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy

      look up a few of these recipes: Instant ice cream, carbonated fruit, and tomato caviar. I particularly like carbonated fruit. Dry ice is pretty easy to get and it's low effort.

      I do have to say though, SGU universe is horribly boring, and I'm not a big V fan either.

    • 2 years ago
  • good_stuff
  • Uhane_Pono
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      Uhane_Pono  

    • They have been inching towards this for a long time. The thing is if this is what they want they should have it (for all the good it will do them) and the nerd vacuum will be filled by something more appropriate and interesting. Do not mourn, fellow nerds, there is plenty of programing to go around. Who really cares about cable anymore anyway? A new station will appear perhaps this time online? Driving the cable market even further to the back of the fair ground of possible viewing options.

    • 2 years ago
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