Further proof that Fox hates science fiction

Friday nights are the Sci-Fi channel's best time slot...

There are viewers on Friday night who are hungry for something other than reruns, and there always have been. The X-Files was a Friday night show for a long time. Dallas was number one for years. Miami Vice did fantastic ratings. CSI started on Fridays. You assume every single person in America is out on the town on Friday night... and in case you hadn't noticed, the economy has people staying home. To call Friday a "death slot" is to prove you know nothing about television or its history.

They've hated sci-fi since 'Alien Nation' back in the early 1990s.....

I think this is possibly the best thing for Sarah Conner. I'm already trying to juggle Chuck, HIMYM, and Big Bang Theory and having to watch Sarah Conner online. This way my TIVO can handle all of them. I'm not happy about House filling its space as I will have to decide which to record again.

I will admit to being really lame and usually being in on Friday nights, but this will be a nice replacement for the sorely missed Stargate Atlantis and my SciFridays on SciFi.

You can count good sci-fi on your fingers. Good sci-fi is so rare, that I'm not shocked that networks don't give them better chances. For every Battlestar Galactica, there's a dozen Fringe, Terminator and Sanctuary shows.

I do have great hope for the Red Mars mini-series planned on AMC, that has got to be one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written, and if done right, it could be a fantastic mini-series.

Glee is from Ryan Murphy the creator of Nip/Tuck. Maybe it will be bad, but it could at least be interesting.

Is Fringe NOT SciFi? I know it is somewhat of a cop show, but it all revolves around science, most of which, I assume, is fiction.

I am excited about Boldly Going Nowhere but I am disapointed that, for now, Fox has not greenlit Virtuality which sounds like an incredible show. They haven't said no to it but they are reworling the script(revisiting ordering it in May) . Which probably means they are waiting to see how Dollhouse does before adding another Sci Fi show to their lineup.

So with Terminator, Dollhouse and Virtuality in the fold I don't see how Fox "hates" Sci-fi. I think the ratings this winter on Friday will be a big indication on how Fox plans on moving ahead with this genre. I don't think Friday night is a death sentence for these types of shows. I don't expect ratings to be through the roof but perhaps respectable for the night they are on. I would love to see this built as a Sci Fi night going forward so i'm hoping for solid ratings. I'm happy that these shows might have a chance to compete on Friday night rather than on Monday with 10 million other options on at tv at the same time.

six word explanation...

Big Bang Theory is a hit

I gar-ron-tee you some exec heard that, asked a nephew what the show was about. was told "Sci-Fi nerds", and said "well, we got to have one of those shows, too"

" But that show is a parody of science-fiction, not the real thing (which when done well actually makes you cogitate on philosophy, life and the universe)."

I would argue that the greatest science fiction parody ever made you cogitate about life, the universe and everything as much as any serious Science fiction did....