Sci-Fi Channel has officially jumped the shark

They're showing a Mork and Mindy marathon right now. Wrestling was bad enough, but this...

Now, don't get me wrong. I like the show. Robin Williams is always awesome, but the Sci-Fi Channel?

 

You beat me to it. I was going to mention the same shit.

Crazy...

 

They're going the way of MTV. People, people, people. If you're not going to be true to your name, find another one!

 

They could learn a lesson from the Republicans in the last elections.

 

No, nono.

Wrestling was the shark jump.

You can only expect fail after that.

 

Nanoo, nanoo!

 

Mork and Mindy? Can the Fonz be far behind?

 

There's nothing wrong with showing Mork and Mindy on the Sci-Fi channel. Just because it's a comedy doesn't mean it isn't science fiction too.

 

The guy was from friggin' space. An alien. Third Rock could work too.

I had a bigger problem with the monster movies and things like John Edwards or Scare Tactics.

But hell, they were running Joan of Arcadia for a while, which is more genre or speculative fiction than sci-fi.

What pisses me off is that they start shows (Friday at 8pm seems to be the death sentence) and then completly dump them after a few weeks, without resolution. Odyssey 5 got me interested, then it was dropped after a few weeks, then the Joan show and others, to the point where I won't watch the syndicated shows they pick up. Fuck em. It's accumulated enough bad will from me that I only watch Skify when no other convenient alternative exists.

Ah, at least I got the PK Wars mini.

 

I hope they hurry and show BSG 4.5 so I can be done with Skiffy.

 

Yeah, the monster movies just make me want to shoot the TV. (That's why I shoot the raccoons - just to get the anger out of my system so I don't hurt my TV.)

The real crime is that there are a buttload of good sci-fi books and short stories by reputable authors that will never make the big screen, but would be perfect for Skiffy to do. But noooooooo...we get dreck instead.

 

At least Mork and Mindy is Sci-Fi. They had a James Bond marathon on Thanksgiving day. They only played Goldeneye once, and then alternated between TND and TWINE.

 

They had Bond on SciFi? That doesn't make sense. Mork and Mindy yes, Scare tactics, no.

 

They are. At some point, they're going to change the name of the channel to "Beyond."

They've decided that they want to get more viewers, so, instead of doing something related to quality (as that's expensive), they're going to go "mainstream" and thus, like MTV, A&E, Bravo, TLC, and others, show crap that drives away their core audience.

 

remember - these were shows on other networks first.
if they got dropped it was possibly because there were no ore episodes.

 

Yes, I noticed this. I'm guessing "my favorite martian" will be coming soon.

 

at least there was a tidbit of science fiction in the comedy - and at first the writers did keep tract of the pseudo science





and bill bixbe was darn cute as the frustrated human.

 

I understand that. But to use the two examples I gave-

Odyssey 5 was originally made by Showtime and produced 20 episodes. Sci-Fi bought the show - ran the first three or four episodes, and then canceled. Scifi bought it from showtime so it still has rights (presumably) to show final 16 episodes. The show had a very interesting concept/storyline, so I finally went online and downloaded epsidoes 4-20 to see how the show turned out.

Joan of Arcadia - I didn't like as much as Odys. 5, but still, around 2 seasons were produced IIRC. Scifi showed maybe 5 episodes and then just stopped running it.

I wouldn't have criticized if, instead, when they cancel a show from the Fri. 8 pm time slot (or whenever), they tell viewers that "we had to cancel for low ratings, but you can see the rest of the episodes at 2 am saturday".

But I won't start watching any 'new' show on scifi - or "Beyond" (whether or not its original scifi programming, or a repeat from some other network), until the repeats hit syndication, unless I hear it's good. Now that I've figured it out, I'll just download any show if it turns out to be good enough, and drop the channel from my short list. I don't watch Atlantis, so until Who returns there's nothing I will now check the channel for.

 

Mork and Mindy was a great show and it is sci fi. Me thinks Muad has killed one too many coons and has jumped the shark.

 

it was science fiction comedy - and not really my cup of tea.
IT jumped the shark when they got pregnant.

 

You can never kill too many coons.

Oh, I think M&M is a great comedy. I even watched a couple of hours of the marathon. Nobody makes me laugh like Robin Williams. The sci-fi part is a bit more questionable.

Certainly, it's more sci-fi than wrestling or Scare Tactics, or what's that other one: The Chase?

Those shows plus the monster movies and other dreck are what helped to get the WTF reaction out of me. I'd like to turn on the Sci-Fi Channel and actually see some good sci-fi.

 

Only reason I don't delete Sc-fi off my channels is once in awhile they show a couple Twilight Zones at like, 5 am.

When I get Zone on DVD, SF is gone.

 

If they start showing Alf, then

 

Mork & Mindy is as sci-fi as 3rd Rock from the Sun.

 

http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=ALF

 

It's also about as sci-fi as Voyager, which was really just a dumbed down, less funny version of The A-Team--heroes, cut off from society, meet villain of the week; heroes overcome impossible odds to beat the villain of the week; none of it matters the following week.

 

I could live with Mork and Mindy, 3rd Rock, and My Favorite Martian if I were also seeing ST:TOS, Space:1999, The Invaders, UFO, Search, and a Skiffy production of Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust or Childhood's End.

They've taken the sci-fi out of the Sci-Fi Channel. They should rename it the Dreck Channel and keep it honest. Or at least the No Sci-Fi Channel.

 

Yep, Ghost Hunters and shit like that have ruined the channel. They should focus on new Sc-Fi and rerunning all the old classics.

 

Sci-Fi lost its way many years ago in my opinion. When it started it had a great idea in my opinion. But, as time has passed they really seem to lack any focus and direction. The only series that I have really focused on have been things like BSG and the Stargate series. Outside of those I really don't watch much of Sci-fi.

 

SciFi has gone the way of MTV - it's turned into another Spike clone. Which itself was only a modest upgrade of USA.

"Beyond" . . . beyond what? Beyond tolerance? Beyond caring? Feh.