This show called Web Soup
04-14-11 | 01:33 AM
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This show called Web Soup
aired on the siffy channel.
Wrestling...a cooking show...Web Soup. What'll be next? Crank Yankers? I wouldn't be surprised.
*sigh* *shakes head*
Wrestling...a cooking show...Web Soup. What'll be next? Crank Yankers? I wouldn't be surprised.
*sigh* *shakes head*
04-14-11 | 01:47 AM
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Re: This show called Web Soup
That's NBC Universal for you. Hell, that's all the cable channels. Remember when TLC used to be The Learning Channel? When I was a kid, it was all educational stuff teachers would record and show in class. I don't think DC Cupcakes qualifies as learning, or Sister Wives, or Extreme Couponing.
Same goes with the Discovery channels. I was shocked Planet Green is airing ghost shows now. I'm sure Al Gore really embraces the ghost hunting lifestyle, really an environmental issue there. Science channel? I love the Oddities show, but wtf does that have to do with science? Same with the recent Ricky Gervais explore the world show on Science. Same with nearly all the cable channels.
But yes, SciFi, oh, I'm sorry, SyFy, is the worst offender. It is now airing almost zero science fiction shows in primetime, and every month less and less. That's the way these channels work now. They used to embrace having a niche, and focusing in getting ratings from that niche. Then, they'd have a success that was borderline their channel. Then they'd expand. Then they saw TLC and Bravo just program to get viewers, get ratings, and they all went for it. Maybe we should be surprised that targeted networks lasted as long as they did. At the end of the day, these networks exist just to make money, and they do that by drawing viewers. They don't care what the show is about as long as it gets ratings. The absurd thing is probably that this didn't happen a lot sooner. Just airing whatever gets ratings, not what the network is about. In the long run, it'll probably hurt them, but right now, it's working for them. Blame mega corporations, mainly NBC Universal, and caring about the bottom line, putting TV people in charge of programming and not people with a connection to the network and it's content. SciFi hasn't had a non-corporate suit type in charge of programming since before Farscape, over a decade.
I think the networks we should really be upset about are Discovery. They don't have the same corporate whores excuse, and there's no excuse for turning Science into a catchall, or Planet Green into ghost buster central.
Same goes with the Discovery channels. I was shocked Planet Green is airing ghost shows now. I'm sure Al Gore really embraces the ghost hunting lifestyle, really an environmental issue there. Science channel? I love the Oddities show, but wtf does that have to do with science? Same with the recent Ricky Gervais explore the world show on Science. Same with nearly all the cable channels.
But yes, SciFi, oh, I'm sorry, SyFy, is the worst offender. It is now airing almost zero science fiction shows in primetime, and every month less and less. That's the way these channels work now. They used to embrace having a niche, and focusing in getting ratings from that niche. Then, they'd have a success that was borderline their channel. Then they'd expand. Then they saw TLC and Bravo just program to get viewers, get ratings, and they all went for it. Maybe we should be surprised that targeted networks lasted as long as they did. At the end of the day, these networks exist just to make money, and they do that by drawing viewers. They don't care what the show is about as long as it gets ratings. The absurd thing is probably that this didn't happen a lot sooner. Just airing whatever gets ratings, not what the network is about. In the long run, it'll probably hurt them, but right now, it's working for them. Blame mega corporations, mainly NBC Universal, and caring about the bottom line, putting TV people in charge of programming and not people with a connection to the network and it's content. SciFi hasn't had a non-corporate suit type in charge of programming since before Farscape, over a decade.
I think the networks we should really be upset about are Discovery. They don't have the same corporate whores excuse, and there's no excuse for turning Science into a catchall, or Planet Green into ghost buster central.
