Originally posted by: Jay
SciFi was my favorite channel by a country mile back when it first showed up. The Prisoner, Dr. Who, Land of the Giants, Lost In Space, Star Trek, SciFi Buzz...my god. OT Star Wars. The Dune extended cut. The Puppetmaster movies. Harlan Ellison. I totally geeked out. I looked forward to my Sunday night Prisoner fix all week.

Even the original movies were halfway decent. I remember this one called Deep Red with Michael Biehn (The Terminator) that was pretty good.

Now? I bought BSG on DVD after seeing one episode. Haven't had time to watch it yet, but I look forward to it. Otherwise, I couldn't care less about SciFi.

SciFi, in my opinion, went downhill immediately after bringing in Bonnie Hammer. She was put in charge of "fixing" the network, and one of the things she did was kill everything that made the network great, starting with MST3K and all of the "cult" shows that were classics. I LOVED SciFi Buzz and Lost in Space, as well as Sightings and a show with Geoff Fox that I can't remember what the name was but he did a lot of stuff on the space program. The channel's hey-day was, IMO, from 95-late 98. BSG is the only thing that channel's got going for it now. Stargate is becoming the Law and Order of SciFi. Waiting for "Stargate: Downtown Pittsburgh" or whatever to come around next.

BTW Jay: You ever read any of Ellison's stuff? Picked up Strange Wine a while back, but have not finished it yet. Quite good so far.