Re: NBC Universal is dividing TV studio

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> In article <7aOdndcYTpMf_WzanZ2dnUVZ_rignZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Hammer has increased the Sci Fi Channel's market share by leaps
>>> and bounds. That's what they hired her to do, so to them she's
>>> not only done her job, she's done it well.
>>
>> Then, evidently these is no need for a Sci-Fi (sci-fi, fantasy and
>> horror) Channel.
>>
>> --
>> Mac Breck (KoshN)
>
> And that may very well be true unfortunately.  Sci-fi, fantasy and
> horror have always seemed to have a problem with holding a big
> audience for a long period of time.

Sci-fi, fantasy and horror have seem to have a problem with holding a
big audience for even a short period of time.  The problem is that the
people who tend to like these shows (especially sci-fi shows), aren't in
the fat part of the bell curve, IQ-wise, and so their are fewer of them,
plus the fact that these shows tend to be expensive.



> Plenty of good series have gone by the wayside because of that very
> fact.  Things like Farscape and Firefly which were very good, couldn't
> hold an audience big enough for the respective networks to keep them
> going.

Well, there's that plus some shows were mishandled/mismarketed by the
network, either through ignorance/stupidity or malice.


> And let's face it, there are more horrible Sci-fi, fantasy and horror
> films than there are good ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law
One of Sturgeon's Laws - "Ninety percent of everything is crap."

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls?  They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.