Cable Channels Rush To The Center

OK!

Mega Piranha! One of the worst greatest B movies ever made.

Only on the Sci Fi Channel. I mean, who else would do this?

But the Sci Fi Channel is no more. Now it's the SyFy Channel, whatever that means.

And the SyFy Channel under their new President David Howe has decided to ditch the nerds in favor of..., well, hard to say... they just bought WWE's SmackDown. Yes, that's right. Wrestling. Well, it does have a degree of Science Fiction to it, at least in the fiction part.  They paid a reported $30 million for that one. 

But wait (as they say on cable), there's more.

SyFy is also launching a cooking show.

Marcel's Quantum Kitchen.

Yeah.

But Sci Fi, sorry SyFy isn't alone.  As the economy tightens and the audiences get more and more fractionalized, cable programmers, fearful of losing their jobs rush with abandon to the center. Dead Center.

So TLC launches some cupcake show. No, seriously, CakeBoss

Two sisters bake cupcakes in Georgetown.

I mean, come on. This looks like a hundred training videos I have seen at Travel Channel Academy sessions in DC.

Which is all good news for you.

You want to be in the cable business?

Good.

You have a machine in your living room that is giving you real-time, minute by minute information on what the cable business is buying. Turn it on!

Sorry for the nerds, but in all honesty, it's a whole lot easier to make Marcel's Quantum Kitchen or CakeBoss than it is to make Battlestar Galactica.