Comments on: Good Idea or Bad Idea? SciFi Changes Name to SyFy Channel

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:21:44 +0000

I hate Sy Fy popups too. Who was the genius who thought bad programming and annoying viewers to death was a good combination? I would suggest everyone write their cable company and ask for the channel to be removed from the lineup. Seriously, would anyone miss it that much? Why are we paying for crap and popups??????

By: Rob Smith

Rob Smith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:04:01 +0000

Sy Fy Has to many popups on each program. I wish a had a popup blocker for tv! The Popup is a bad idea. I dont enjoy watching the show no matter has much I like the show!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:58:37 +0000

I saw the commercials for SyFy just this evening and I love it. It took me a few seconds to figure out the rebranding efforts, but I really appreciate the fresh new visual concept that they've pushed for. I think it's a bit more expansive then the SCI Fi channel concept. SCI FI seems like something only for guys. SyFy seems like something you can watch with your girlfriend. As a self-prclaimed nerd (girl) I appreciate the esthetic efforts and I look forward with anticipation for the new season.

Thanks!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:31:53 +0000

And yet another television network shows that they're completely out of touch with the evolution of entertainment. Terrestrial television should be going MORE niche market, not less, because they have so many entertainment venues to compete with.

Dirty, smelly, anti-social geeks spend money too - more than you'd care to realize on our books, games, DVD box sets, and action figures. Perhaps you'd like to check out my DINK discretionary spending money sometime, Mr Siffy.

By: John D.

John D. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:51:56 +0000

I think you've missed this statement in the announcement:

...the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider range of current and future imagination-based entertainment beyond just the traditional sci-fi genre, including fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure.

In other words...less science fiction and more programming that appeals to a wider audience. They are shirking science fiction for more popular programming. (I see reality television out the wazoo in their future...)

By: Scott Shaffer

Scott Shaffer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:08 +0000

Oh, I'm so with John on this one! It's a good thing - it allows somebody else to come in and do science fiction television and not create confusion in the marketplace. And AMC or USA show or two (I can dream can't I?) would be a good thing, and this clears the way for it.

By: tditto

tditto — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:36:17 +0000

Dear SyFy, (lol whatever... Synce Fyction? really? You're so hip! (vomit))

Do whatever you want. I stopped coming to your channel for Science Fiction (actual Sci-Fi) quite some time ago. Right about the time you were showing wrestling (the fake kind) on your channel.

However your quest for irrelevance is complete! Good job! Fire the marketing team... Mmmmmkay? I'm not convinced your maketing team knows what market they are in or who their key demographic is.

By: George

George — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:41:05 +0000

Sigh...

Just curious...is it possible to find a TV exec, somewhere, with an ounce of freaking common sense? There's no reason for this change, no upside, and more potential for ridicule than even I can fathom. And I write satire...I can fathom lots of ricdivulous crap!

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:08:01 +0000

Im happy about it actually. It give Sci-Fi a chance to distance itself from the crappy channel. With a little luck another channel may step up(eyes on you AMC) to fill the void and give us good sci fi programming we haven't seen in years. This rebranding just reaffirms what we've all known for a long time now. And with BSG wrapping up are we really gonna miss that network?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:44:17 +0000

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.... SyFy! Take that, you fans of Science Fiction!

The worst thing about the Siffy channel is that, to the un-initiated and unwary, the SciFi channel IS Science Fiction. Where else would you go to watch sci-fi shows? After all, it's the flagship station for the genre, right? It stands to reason that they would put on the best possible science fiction shows. Who in their right mind would put out substandard programming? They're the only game in town. They must be putting on the best of the genre, right?

SyFy. A giant suck sandwich with a super-sized side of crap and a 32 ounce cup of fail. Bon apetite, folks!

By: DFowler

DFowler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:13:32 +0000

I find it sad that SciFi went from a channel I used to watch at least once a week to maybe once a month. My wife and I used to love SciFi Fridays now we never watch it together. I did watch the other day when they had a Twilight Zone marathon with a couple of old episodes I hadn't seen in a while. I'm just hoping Eureka will be interesting when it comes back. So in other words call it what ever you want because it doesn't matter to me anymore.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:40:55 +0000

I've never watched, nor felt compelled to watch, BSG either - and right now I'm watching "The Brain That Wouldn't Die!" on TCM.

The old classices SyssyFuss should be airing.

By: Pete Tzinski

Pete Tzinski — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:28:49 +0000

Given that my SF television has long since shrunk away from a plethora of shows down to Doctor Who (fanatically) and Torchwood (with increasing fanaticism, since Series 2 ended so well) this doesn't phase me at all, except for the amusement and watching the conversation. I realize I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't watch BSG (Despite the urging of friends, nothing about it has yet made me WANT to watch it...)

So. Since all my SF-TV comes from the BBC, well, I guess I am unfazed.

...

I wonder if this is coming about BECAUSE Battlestar Galactica is at an end now. That's the last major SF show they've got (which also gets viewers and good reviews...I'm lookin' at you Stargate). And now it's done. And so they do a name change and make some noise. I expect they don't have anything to fill the gap usefully.

I wonder how much longer Siffy will be around.

By: Kim L

Kim L — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:19:28 +0000

I'm not sure if you even have to ask if this is a bad idea. It just is. Because it just sounds dumb. At least those of us who enjoy science fiction could pretend there was a channel that was worth watching. Even when it was getting kind of pathetic.

But now... I don't even know what syfy even means. It sounds and looks silly. It also sounds like they are going to stop pretending to even bother with real science fiction.

By: SMD

SMD — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:13:42 +0000

It's not really an issue for me. I've known that SciFi wasn't a science fiction destination anymore for a while. When I was tuning into that station only to see crappy made-for-TV rip-off movies, non-SF programming, stupid ghost hunting nonsense (which I can't stand, because people take it seriously, when in reality they don't provide any logical proof to ghosts whatsoever, they just wander around pretending to have the heebeejeebees and yell/scream/sweat/stutter and show us, the viewers, nothing, not even a chair moving or something), I knew it was pretty much over for me.

Battlestar Galactica is the only thing I watch from that station, and I don't even watch it on SciFi, but on Hulu or elsewhere. I can't stand what the station has become. When it first surfaced when I was younger they used to play all these old SF classics (like the monster movies, Planet of the Apes, and all sorts of other SF from scary to downright nifty). They played reruns of my favorite shows, marathons of old classics like The Twilight Zone, etc. It was a darn good station. When they started adding original programming, I was okay with that, but then they went overboard and started churning out of cheese and garbage. Then I stopped watching. They've had the occasional gem on that station, but mostly it's just a crapshoot. I want my old Godzilla movies, dangit!