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So long, nerds! Syfy doesn’t need you
MSNBC ^ | April 27, 2010 | Ree Hines

Posted on 04/29/2010 9:01:41 AM PDT by EveningStar

...Ultimately “SmackDown” marks the devolving of the network for a sweet, sweet slice of that 18-to-34 male demographic that sponsors love so much. That means money...

After all, the problem isn’t simply Syfy’s addition of wrestling to its lineup. The network inexplicably welcomed wrestling years ago with “Extreme Championship Wrestling” and more recently with “WWE NXT,” but bringing the bigger budget “Friday Night SmackDown” to the schedule marks a shift in priorities...

(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: prowrestling; sciencefiction; scifi; syfy
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To: GonzoGOP

My wife gave me a collection of one of the old Buster Crabbe/Flash Gordon serials . . . fun stuff.


101 posted on 04/29/2010 8:20:55 PM PDT by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: mnehring

Dadgum it, I just got my kids to bed! Making me laugh out loud like that and I’ll have to do it all over again, LOL! :-) “UberGoldfish”, bwahahahaha!!


102 posted on 04/29/2010 8:38:45 PM PDT by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue" ><>)
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To: GonzoGOP

Yes. I agree. The old Flash Gordon serials (NOT the new one) among others!


103 posted on 04/29/2010 8:48:41 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
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To: pillut48
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Koi Pond

104 posted on 04/29/2010 8:49:55 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Do they have anything worth watching?

Well, for gearheads, they have Powerblock on the weekends - Horsepower TV, 4x4, Trucks, etc...

Other than that, not much.

105 posted on 04/29/2010 10:11:43 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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To: EveningStar
“Top Chef” alum Marcel Vigneron would be joining the network for a cooking show called “Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen”

Why the need for this??? All you have to do is program the food replicators for whatever fare you like...unless you have Klingon foods packs, in which case you may get a sour stomach.

106 posted on 04/30/2010 3:48:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: redhead

I faithfully watched Stargate but SU was a big disappointment. It had such possibilities and they were only limited by their imaginations. They opted for cheap emotional claptrap.


107 posted on 04/30/2010 4:16:53 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: GonzoGOP

Dang! And I thought I had nightmares about killer kudzu!! =:-O


108 posted on 04/30/2010 6:46:22 AM PDT by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue" ><>)
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To: DJ MacWoW

There’s a lot of potential STILL in SG:U. I’m gonna hang in there and give them a chance. At least now they’re starting to visit Stargate planets like the previous series have done, and tonight it looks like from the previews that they run into a dinosaur or some mighty big HUNGRY looking lizard! :-)


109 posted on 04/30/2010 6:48:14 AM PDT by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue" ><>)
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To: IYAS9YAS

From what the listing says that seems to be what they’re doing, taking the basics concepts of the world and running with it. Could be cool, I’ll give a couple episodes.


110 posted on 04/30/2010 8:26:51 AM PDT by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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