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spronk posted:A new exec comes on board the network, and decides that they are going to revitalize the brand and double subscribers and the only way to do that is to attract new viewers who have no interest in what you are currently showing. Our revenge as TV viewers has been that we have long ago stopped caring what channel shows are on, everything is DVR'd just by show name. I get the feeling things are blowing up but the industry is being quiet about it. Syfy only existed to grab a niche and the cable industry's homogenization in the past decade has just pushed people away. There's nothing special to television anymore outside of the ability to give emergency information. It's all just increasing commercials, baffling censorship, and a lot of filler programming. It's hard to believe that thirty to forty years ago we had people talking about the Glass Teat and now it's been dropped for the Internet or recorded programming that we have total uncut control over viewing. And the media's focus on teenagers for advertising dollars just results in more people turning away to begin with. Television, more or less, has just become infantile. For real drama you have to pay for it, and even then it's cut to poo poo and back. In a way, I feel this is why Blood & Chrome may not work. From the description, it's being dumbed down in a way television programming doesn't have to be anymore. The paradigm is shifting, and unfortunately for creators the ones in charge are the ones who really have to go to allow change.
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