languatron
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Life could be this beautiful without NBC-TV in it.
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Sci-Fi Channel has suffered from two sad realities since Bonnie Hammer and Universal Studios took it over:
1) A lack of adequate funding.
2) A lack of imagination.
Sci-Fi Channel now vegetates on a daily basis; reflecting an irresponsible, corporate management team that has no intention of taking the channel in exciting new directions, or correcting the course away from Science Fiction programming that Bonnie Hammer implemented in the first place. Somewhere in between the "Game Show Network" and "Animal Planet", you will find Sci-Fi Channel. Serving its predictable, daily diet of "B Horror Movies", hacked to ribbon reruns of old Universal movies (not Science Fiction of course), and anything else that Bonnie Hammer's lazy staff can dig out of the USA film vaults and slap the Science Fiction programming label on.
Sci-Fi Channel has settled quite comfortably into a predictable, badly managed cable outlet that has characterized Bonnie Hammer's horrendous management since day one. Nothing new or exciting ever happens on Sci-Fi Channel. Of course, expecting anything along those lines to happen with Universal Studios at the helm of the network is putting it kindly,....unrealistic.
Bonnie Hammer's background as the mastermind (  ) behind the Saturday afternoon CRAP FEST known as the "World Wrestling Federation" has yielded a cable network that gives the public an excuse to AVOID. There is no reason to watch Sci-Fi Channel simply because, there is never anything worthwhile to watch. What little money the channel does have is wasted on "B Grade Horror Schlcock" like "Mansquito" and "Man-Thing." The only prerequisite required for a Sci-Fi Channel original movie, is that "Man" appear in some capacity in the movie title. It also helps immensely that some creature from the insect or animal kingdom is combined with "Man:"
1) Mansquito
2) Man-Thing
3) Man-codile
4) Man-Grizzly
5) Man-Shark
6) Man-Wasp
7) Man-Bird
 Man-Fly
9) Man-Dog
10) Man-Leech
Sci-Fi Channel is run by a corporation that couldn't tell you who Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs are. They couldn't tell you who Harlan Ellison is. They couldn't tell you the definition of Science Fiction. Universal Studios and Bonnie Hammer have reduced whatever potential the Sci-Fi Channel had, to a quick fix "Big Mac" meal at McDonalds. Indeed, little to no thought ever goes into the programming decisions of Sci-Fi Channel. Universal Studios corporate mandate of cheap CGI and "Big boobs in tight shirts" which are the two basic ingredients of all of their original productions, is the reason why all of their original productions earn a one way ticket to the long forgotten DVD shelves in RGrant's basement.
Bonnie Hammer can crank out one hell of a forgettable hour of fake wrestling on a Saturday afternoon. When Hammer is called upon for more noble tasks however; such as expressing the intelligence symbolized in her college degree, or producing an hour of television not custom tailored towards 14 year old boys hooked on Viagra and "Crack", Bonnie Hammer falls flat on her "lack of talent" as a programmer as surely as Universal Studios can be counted on to FUCK one of their copyrights in some disturbing, new way.
Since the TV-DVD market has removed the ability of Bonnie Hammer to rerun old Universal Studios Science Fiction tv shows with butchered abandon for commercial breaks, Hammer is left with a daily and nightly schedule that is even more BARREN than it was before. Expect Hammer to do nothing to rectify this problem. Hammer doesn't manage this channel. She monitors the channel on "mental cruise control." As surely as a typical FM radio station will play the same 15 songs again and again 365 days a year for decades, so is Sci-Fi Channel locked into the same DEAD END ROUTE of CORPORATE LETHARGY which guarantees that Sci-Fi Channel will never raise its head above the low objectives Bonnie Hammer set for it. Sci-Fi Channel is the cable equivelent of "Crappy FM Radio," where your only relief from watching the same "non-Science Fiction CRAP" again and again is to either change the channel, or turn off your tv set.
Viewers have given up all hope of ever seeing imagination on the Universal Studios owned Sci-Fi Channel, simply because Universal Studios HAS NO IMAGINATION. If it weren't for Universal Studios daily pickings in their CORPORATE DUMPSTER (the USA Film Vaults), the only thing broadcast on Sci-Fi Channel would be a test pattern in between Bonnie Hammer's CRAPPY ASS original productions.....Maybe that would be a good thing, and a WELCOME RELIEF!!! 
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