The folks who control cable networks have no respect for the notion of genre, so it's hardly worth starting a good argument about whether the Sci-Fi Channel should have been running the Dresden Files. But I can't resist a small try
In defense of a schedule where not everyone will like every show: My local library puts all the SF (
speculative fiction) stuff in the same section, but tags things heavy on ray guns and computers with a little red "atomic rocket" sticker and puts a blue unicorn head sticker on stuff that's likely too magical for readers like ACole47.
That said, at base I could hardly agree more that the Sci-Fi channel needs to work much harder to live up to its name. The cheap horror makes it useless for me on Saturdays, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how ECW got on the schedule. I mean I know pro wrestling is fiction, but what's to speculate about? Whether some goofball will put lights in his leotard next time?
p.s. The media corps' genre problems are worse than just this one channel. If you pay attention to the scheduling on the genre-named suite of Encore channels, you'll eventually see many, many films appearing on all or most of the channels. One month, a flick is a Mystery, several months later it's a Romance, still later it's a Drama, and so forth. Video stores also often litter their "SF" section with stuff like Freddy vs. Jason, etc.
