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Topic: Sci-Fi channel changes it's name to SurgeTV <-- HOAX (Read 9675 times)
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bhodi
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb427756.htmEffective November 1, 2006, the SCI FI Channel will change their name to SurgeTV, to reflect the changing demographic thrust of the successful long-running cable channel. In addition, deals are currently working out to bring back ECW for a three-times a week run in prime time, as well as reruns (Pre-WWE) of professional wrestling events.
it's dead to me. Edit: update here indicating this was a hoax.
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« Last Edit: August 24, 2006, 10:42:59 AM by bhodi »
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Merusk
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It was dead to me years ago.. this just makes it official. But then I knew it was going to die when 1) they dumped all of the sci-fi shows 2) the (then) new president of the network said something about how sci-fi was too niche* and 3) they started dropping good, original sci-fi shows wih decent ratings. Expect BSG to not have a season 3, and I'll be surprised if season 2 even finishes. Another quote While much of the original programming the SCI FI Channel has produced will remain on air through the next year, SurgeTV expects sweeping changes to the network, shifting away from the so-called "nerd" demographic. This means that SurgeTV will try to appeal to it's growing number of "extreme" viewers by removing all of it's current re-run programming and replacing it with a new "brand" - Xtreme Surge At Night. Effective November 1, 2006, SurgeTV will begin broadcasting reruns of Hogan Knows Best and original WWE programming. Filling out the early morning hours will be the ground-breaking American (English language channel) debut of Lucha Libre sporting events.
X-TREEEEEME * It may just be fuzzy-memory but I seem to recall her pretty much insulting the entire viewing demographic once, too. |
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bhodi
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*runs screaming to the top of a hill and screams SUUUURGGGGEEEEEEE*
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ClydeJr
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So its supposed to turn into SpikeTV v2.0? Thank god. I was just thinking the other day we need more shows on TV dedicated to large sweaty men in speedos rolling around on each other.
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Signe
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I think it sounds very exciting.
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Roac
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I needed to watch less TV anyway.
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HaemishM
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What... the... fuck?
Why not just turn the goddamn thing into the Mountain Dew channel? Fuck me, I thought SpikeTV was a stupid idea, this sounds like the retarded brainchild of hydroencheplitic snowboarders and 90-year old marketing corpses. But I guess it puts some sense into their cancellation of SG-1. I expect that neither BSG or Doctor Who will continue past 2007.
Fuckers.
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Tebonas
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Dr. Who? The Brits will hopefully carry it on their own if needed. We are talking about BBC people here that grew up with that series.
But else I agree. Scifi Wrestling channel? In what demented mind those two things go hand in hand?
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Roac
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But I guess it puts some sense into their cancellation of SG-1. Shit, I missed that. Wow, that... I really don't get it. They've done work to change out some of the cast, and it looks like they've pulled it off. There has been a drop in ratings lately, but I take that to have more to do with SciFi's screwing of the Friday schedule, and otherwise the Friday lineup is the moneymaker for that channel. Everything looks good, so lets change it? |
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Out of interest, now that the market is vacant, is the name "Sci-Fi Channel" freely available, or would I have to buy that?
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HaemishM
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Dr. Who? The Brits will hopefully carry it on their own if needed. We are talking about BBC people here that grew up with that series. Sure, the BBC will keep producing it, as Sci-Fi had nothing to do with that. But Sci-Fi was the only one willing to broadcast it over here, which means I'd have to torrent the goddamn thing. I repeat, fuckers. |
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This is bad that I have to hope NBC somehow decides to take over BSG. This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard happen to a station. Expect BSG to not have a season 3, and I'll be surprised if season 2 even finishes. Season 2 did finish. Season 3 should happen no matter what the fallout from this monumental pooch screw. I mean.. it looks like they've got a decent chunk of it filmed. This just fills me with rage. BSG getting an early axe would be worse than anything HBO's ever done or even Fox for killing Firefly and Wonderfalls. .. I slipped into some alternate dimension didn't I? I mean come on.. sci-fi to dude-stuff?  |
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Merusk
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Expect BSG to not have a season 3, and I'll be surprised if season 2 even finishes. Season 2 did finish. Season 3 should happen no matter what the fallout from this monumental pooch screw. I mean.. it looks like they've got a decent chunk of it filmed. This just fills me with rage. BSG getting an early axe would be worse than anything HBO's ever done or even Fox for killing Firefly and Wonderfalls. Oh right.. I forgot I skipped watching Season 1. Add one to each season number. |
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bhodi
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Good One! *high five* EDIT: Regarding SG-1 cancelation: Michael Shanks as Cylon Model #1.  |
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« Last Edit: August 24, 2006, 10:59:02 AM by tazelbain »
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Glad to see my BS detector still functions properly. Too bad SG-1 is still cancelled, though. Teal'c needs to be written into Atlantis STAT. So, according to this plan, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis will take a break in September and return in March, and BSG's season will run from October to March Look, another reason I dislike that BSG garbage. |
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Yegolev
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I think it sounds very exciting.
keke You would. |
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Yegolev
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Look, another reason I dislike that BSG garbage.
You can't blame BSG for Beau Bridges, as much as you might want to. |
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Surlyboi
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BSG is the best fucking show on TV right now.
The only redeeming value of SG-1 is Claudia Black and Lexa Doig.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Margalis
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ECW could never run three times a week. It was obviously fake.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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HaemishM
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The worst part about it being a hoax is that is was believable. Sci-Fi has done some dumbass things recently, putting ECW on being one of those. It wouldn't have surprised me a bit had it been true. |
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The worst part about it being a hoax is that is was believable. Sci-Fi has done some dumbass things recently, putting ECW on being one of those. It wouldn't have surprised me a bit had it been true. I was about to post something similar. Yeah, they got me but only because it was plausible in some way. It doesn't speak well of your company/ agency/ channel when most of your target customers think that ill of you. |
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bhodi
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The worst part about it being a hoax is that is was believable. Sci-Fi has done some dumbass things recently, putting ECW on being one of those. It wouldn't have surprised me a bit had it been true. Yep. I have a fairly good bullshit meter and it didn't set it off in the slightest. If I thought it was fake I would have never made a thread about it. |
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Johny Cee
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I was taken in.
Mostly because I've browsed through the joke that Scifi calls it's daytime lineup. They play some pure shit series back to back to back all day. Do they still do 5 episodes back to back of "cheap but bad/outdated cancelled TV series" during the afternoon/evening?
Not to mention the piles of straight to DVD movies....
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Righ
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Yes, though in their defense, there really is a lack of decent sci-fi out there, if what you want to do is fill a cable channel with it.
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It doesn't need to be decent. Just sci-fi.
There, now it's easier for them :P
Damn, I wish I could get the sci-fi channel in Korea.
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..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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Johny Cee
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I kind of liked when they used to play alot of the classic old horror movies. The Christopher Lee Hammer movies and whatnot. Sure, it was silly.... but it was much better than 6 hours of Sliders or the 9th repeat of SG-1.
I really hoped that Scifi would have picked up Dead Like Me. Didn't seem to be much in the way of effects budget, and locale was standard city. The language would have to be toned down (they loved to say "fuck").... but the series seemed to be picking up plot/story steam at the end of season 2.
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Sky
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Look, another reason I dislike that BSG garbage.
You can't blame BSG for Beau Bridges, as much as you might want to. Ok, I'll give you that one. |
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HaemishM
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Yes, though in their defense, there really is a lack of decent sci-fi out there, if what you want to do is fill a cable channel with it.
True, but that still doesn't explain how they can foist both wrestling and Shannen Doherty on us. |
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Signe
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I keep forgetting the channel exists. They always have it in a really weird place in our channel listings. I think I only really watched Stargate on it which I stopped watching after the frowny bloke grew hair. I have no idea why that bothered me so much. Anyway, I saw an advert that they have a new show named "Eureka"... is it good? I meant to check it out, but I forgot.
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HaemishM
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Eureka is quite good, well worth the effort to seek it out.
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Dren
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They implied that the current viewers of Sci-Fi wanted wrestling. To me, I figured something was up since I know of no Sci-Fi fan that is a big pro wrestling fan. They certainly wouldn't prefer just dropping all Sci-Fi for all Pro Wrestling. That smelled funny.
I didn't think it was a hoax though. I just figured there was some shenanigans going on in the board room is all. Being a hoax is even better.
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Signe
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Eureka is quite good, well worth the effort to seek it out.
Can I just jump in and start watching? Or are the episodes dependant on each other making it hard to follow if you haven't been watching? Sci Fi channel does a lot of "marathons" though, don't they? |
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HaemishM
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I think you could probably jump right in, as the episodes are mostly self-contained. There is an overarching plot(s), but you've only missed about 5 shows and they are in the background right now. Just torrent the others or try to catch a rerun.
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