The SciFi channel is about nothing if not blown concepts, missed opportunities and ruined franchises. Still, it’s hard to understand why they’d kill something like this. I mean they’re the SciFi channel. Could it really have been killing them to be keeping Omni’s fiction editor employed while racking up Hugos and Nebulas? This was costing them what annually, the catering budget of Locusts: The 9th Plague?
Oddly enough, this serves as further proof of the success of Science Fiction at reaching mainstream status. Pure science fiction, as defined by that material qualified for Hugo and Nebula awards, now has the market value of a Grammy or daytime Emmy (even less, it would seem, as those are all still supported by broadcast models).
This is what you get for assigning any positive value to “Event Horizon” (I blame you, Pikachu).
A good reference comparison is available at G4, whose booty-shaking Asian import models [there’s days’-worth of double-entendres in those three words] more closely reflect late night E! programming than “TV for gamers.â€