The "Blood & Chrome" Wardrobe Has Just Arrived at The Vancouver Soundstages, Part 2

3. Battlestar Colonels will be attired in this typically conservative light blue number with the option of either wearing a neck tie or an ascot.

4. Colonial Warrior dress uniforms will be nothing more than a slight variation on business suit #2 with the option of changing the style of your neck tie or changing the color of your vest.

Like "GINO" and "Caprica" before it, "Blood & Chrome" will fail to convey the illusion that the story is taking place thousands of light years from Earth thanks solely to the weakness and lack of imagination of this wardrobe alone. Will the SyFy Channel and Ronald D. Moore ever learn?



The "Blood & Chrome" Wardrobe Has Just Arrived at The Vancouver Soundstages, Part 1

1. All Battlestar Commanders will be attired in snazzy white business suits such as this. Similar to the way all of the pimps are dressed on Bourbon Street and in the French Quarter.

2. Rank & File Colonial Warriors will be attired in standard issue three piece numbers like this one. Pay special attention to how the stripes are spaced apart on the neck tie.

The High Price of Gas is Driving Consumers Away From The Pump. Could The High Price of Cable Shut Down The SyFy Channel For Good?

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This brutal economy of ours may be a blessing in disguise on certain fronts. It may very well shut down the SyFy Channel and every other "rinky-dink" little cable channel (not watched by substantial numbers) it is packaged with. In an economy where the price of gasoline remains at $4.00 a gallon no matter what because Obama has done nothing to shut down illegal Wall Street speculating....what are consumers going to spend their money on? Are they going to spend it on an outrageous monthly cable bill in order to keep themselves up to date on the latest crap Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern have put on the air....or are they going to spend it on a mortgage, rent, food, and clothing...in order to keep themselves alive?

Not that the SyFy Channnel was ever a monthly prize for anyone to begin with...who subscribed to a monthly cable channel package...but such luxuries as a monthly cable bill may be falling by the wayside very soon for consumers en masse. In a sort of "Addams Family" dark humor kind of way....this may very well be the antidote we need to get rid of Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern once and for all. The antidote being...."our trashed economy." Yes....our economy may very well prompt Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern to clean out their offices once and for all. The SyFy Channel needs consumers (victims) to watch their crap every month. If consumers are cancelling their monthly cable bills in record numbers...the SyFy Channel will no longer have an audience to further insult with their bad taste in television programming.

It's certainly too late for the SyFy Channel to have a change of habit (and an impossible change in corporate personality) by suddenly offering consumers imaginative....inspired....and entertaining television programming...in order to prevent them from dropping the SyFy Channel like a sack of wet potatos. If the SyFy Channel were talented and imaginative...the hemorrhaging of viewers might be slowed...But Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern backed themselves into a corner via their lack of imagination and lack of good taste in television programming to such a degree....that an uncontrollable disaster such as our economy may very well put their corporate lights out for good.

I'm buying the first round!!

Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern Are Not The Best Executives Money Can Buy

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NBC-Universal no doubt assigns management positions to their in-house executives not because they are the best candidates for the job, but because they are "Management Contract Players" so to speak...sent to where they are needed to fulfill management vacancies. It's similar to the old studio system of "Contract Players" among actors, where actors were sent to where they were needed on the studio lot to occupy acting positions.

This is no different to how media corporations shuffle around their management executives. In the case of Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern....they were assigned to the SyFy Channel not because of any knowledge of how to manage a Science Fiction channel....but because they were (and are) "Management Contract Players" for NBC-Universal. Management vacancies existed at the former Sci-Fi Channel, and NBC-Universal needed bodies to occupy those management positions.

Because Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern are in-house management nobodies to be shuffled around by NBC-Universal at a "whims" notice....they are not the best management money can buy for the SyFy Channel. The three of them are economical contract players who can be plugged into any cable network NBC-Universal owns at a moment's notice to fulfill management vacancies. Send Hammer, Howe, and Stern over to the USA Network, and they would manage it no differently from the SyFy Channel. If the three of them were to leave NBC-Universal and say....get miraculously snatched up the "Hub Network", they would manage "Hub" no differently from the SyFy Channel or the USA Network.

Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern all come from the "Dime a Dozen Fraternity of Underwhelming Television Executives." This select...shameful group of television executives all operate in the exact same way to compensate for their usual lack of talent and imagination in television programming. When managing the latest television network they are assigned to...they pull out their "Psychogram Demographic Playbook"....and program that network according to this data.

You will never be pleasantly surprised by anything Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern do on any cable network they are assigned to...because in order for the response of "surprise" to take place...the pre-existing conditions of talent, imagination, and inspired thinking would have to exist within Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern beforehand. That is one of those "Eighth Wonders of the World" phenomenons we will never see from the three of them.

Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern manage and program the SyFy Channel within the confines of a typically boring "Status Quo Framework" because they know of no other way in absence of the collective lack of talent, imagination, and inspired thinking they all suffer from.

To get executives more dynamic, talented, and imaginative to oversee the SyFy Channel, would require millions of more dollars in salaries....millions of more dollars NBC-Universal obviously is unwilling to spend. And this would require NBC-Universal to look beyond its present comedy troupe of in-house contract player executives...(Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern.)

Is There a Such Thing as Underachievers Among The Ranks of Television Programmers?

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I certainly think so, and I also think that the SyFy Channel would be designated as being a member of the "Remedial Academics Program" among the ranks of all cable networks if such a beast exists. Take an episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter"....replace Rosalie Totsie, Juan Epstein, and Arnold Horshack with Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern....and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Is it so hard to put good, decent television programming on the air? For the SyFy Channel it is. This categorizes Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern as "Underachievers." Intellectually, they're incapable of executing simple tasks...simply. What is so hard about calling reputable and respected television producers into your office (Kenneth Johnson, J. Michael Straczynski, Joss Whedon) and having them pitch ideas to you for all sorts of potential television series? To Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern....this is the hardest thing in the world to them. It's a simple method of doing business that intellectually....they just can't get a handle on.

Intellectually....Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern are the Sweathogs in the "Remedial Academics Program" at Buchanan High School unwilling to go to a tutor after class in order to brush up on how simple it really is to be a television programmer. Adhering to such nonsense as "Psychograms" and endless ratings data in television programming isn't a mark of intelligence...it's a mark of confusion and chaos for them. Hammer, Howe, and Stern need a "tutor" to break them of the habit.

The way you program for a television network whether it be commercial or cable....or in the SyFy Channel's case....a commercial / cable network....is you have an open door policy to all of the name producers in the industry...allow them to come in and pitch ideas to you....and refrain from any interference in the creative process. A female programming executive working for CBS-TV in 1965 had no clue what the hell the "Wild, Wild, West" was ultimately going to turn out to be before it was shot. But she and her colleagues at CBS-TV allowed Michael Garrison the freedom to do his damn job, and the rest is history. "Wild, Wild West" is unanimously regarded as one of the most respected and imaginative television series of its era and all of television history.

Yes, it can be a pain in the ass for television executives (in the millions of dollars) to not know how and where the chips are going to fall when they have bought a television series pitched to them the likes of which are completely foreign to them. But it's the only appropriate way to conceive a television series, and get the damn thing on the air.

This nonsense of putting a television series together brick by brick based solely upon the outcome of Psychogram studies and marketing clap-trap as the SyFy Channel is so fond of doing has not yielded one hit for them yet.

Maybe it's time for the SyFy Channel to get a clue....

The SyFy Channel's Philosophy Is...If It's Broken...Don't Fix It

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If a team of programmers (with a lick of common sense) ever came in to replace Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern....many of the initial things they would do would be based on common sense instincts. This new team of programmers would be initially pre-occupied with damage control as in.... undoing all of the damage that Hammer, Howe, and Stern have done to the channel over the years.

The unanimous opinion of everyone who has suffered through one of the SyFy Channel's in-house produced weekly monster movies (critics and viewers alike) is that these movies are nothing more than disposable cannon fodder...a complete waste of the money used to finance them....and a complete waste of the filmmaking equipment used to make them. The avalanche of negative reviews and negative opinions always accompanying these weekly trash fests is indicative of the fact that the SyFy Channel either needs to dispose of these movies entirely, or invest millions of more dollars in each movie to bring up the quality level in overall production to bare minimum standards. The SyFy Channel's weekly monster movies are broken...they need to be fixed or removed from the schedule.

WWF Wrestling has always had a "UHF Channel Sleazoid Factor" attached to it dating back to the 1970s. And the passage of time has not improved the reputation of WWF Wrestling one bit. It has been and forever shall be nothing more than the "Jerry Springer Show" set in a wrestling ring. It's a surprise to no one then that the typical intellect of those who run the SyFy Channel snatched up WWF Wrestling right away, and dumped in on to the schedule of what is supposed to be a Science Fiction channel. WWF Wrestling is broken. It needs to be fixed, or removed from the schedule.

The rest of the reality clap-trap on the SyFy Channel's schedule including "Fact or Faked?" and "Marcel's Quantum Kitchen" are so offensive to the senses, that they just need to be removed from the schedule...period.

A new programming team for the SyFy Channel lacking the insanity and stunning lack of talent openly flaunted by Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern (in programming) would  probably think more along these lines after getting rid of all of the sensationalistic crap Hammer, Howe, and Stern put on the air...

1. Reuniting Mike Farrell and Robert Foxworth to do a series of follow up movies to the 1974 television film "The Questor Tapes."

Higher brow movies such as this would permanently replace the weekly monster trash crap presently broadcast on the SyFy Channel.

2. Upgrading all of the visual effects in the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series with quality (and I mean quality) visual effects. And not the Gumby looking CGI crap the SyFy Channel loves to crank out. A high profile project such as this would free up the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series from the curse of stock footage, and begin the process of turning this series into the franchise it was always destined to be if it wasn't owned by brain dead retards (Universal Studios.) Broadcast each episode first on the Sci-Fi Channel, and then do a complete series DVD release of the upgraded episodes. Additional live action footage could also be shot for "Saga of a Star World" involving The Ovion Queen conversing with the Imperious Leader and Cylon Centurions on Carillon. This footage was initially shot for the ABC-TV pilot in 1978 but the footage was cut by ABC-TV and lost forever thanks to Universal Studios (idiots.) Re-shoot the footage again. Also shoot new footage of the Imperious Leader in his chambers while he is conversing with the Cylon Centurions.

3. This of course, would be followed up by all of the surviving cast members from the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series returning for a series of follow-up movies...later to be released on DVD.

4. Do a movie of the week with Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers. It would obviously be a serious take on a much older Buck Rogers and what Buck has been up to since we last saw him. Of course, Erin Gray would also return.

One can always dream about sane people owning and managing the SyFy Channel, right?

The Difference Between The SyFy Channel And MTV

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I was watching "Teen Wolf" on MTV the other night, and I couldn't help but notice how good the pilot episode was, and the second episode. MTV has completely moved away from music videos, and while some people may slam the network for doing so, at least they have moved into other realms of programming that they are good at. While MTV is no longer the MTV of the early 1980's, at least they are good at what they are doing now. "Teen Wolf" is a well done horror series that hopefully will have the longevity of "Buffy-The Vampire Slayer." The thing I noticed about "Teen Wolf", is that MTV takes this series seriously and the people they hired to make this show take great pride in their work.

Ingredients sadly missing in anything the SyFy Channel puts on the air.

If I were to make a quick comparison between the SyFy Channel and other cable networks, I would have to say that the SyFy Channel doesn't take seriously what they are supposed to be doing as a broadcaster....and as a result....their work is either half-ass or completely unacceptable (unwatchable.) Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern will never embrace what their network is supposed to be...and thus,  they will never take pride in their work. And it shows too!! Doesn't it? Everything they put on the air is absolute crap.

Look at the other cable networks in the game today. They all embrace who they are and take pride in what they do. Even if some of these cable networks have strayed away from their original, core identities...at least they moved into other realms of programming that they are extremely good at.

When the Sci-Fi Channel stopped being the Sci-Fi Channel and mutated into God knows what under the new moniker SyFy Channel...the channel never moved into new areas of programming it was good at. Not only do Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern suck ass as Science Fiction television programmers, but they also suck ass in every new programming arena they have tried to move into...."Saturday Night Monster Movies"...."WWF Wrestling"...."Marcel's Quantum Kitchen"...."Fact or Faked"....you name it. Even their overall schedule taken as a collective whole....sucks ass.

Yes, MTV and music videos have parted ways, but at least MTV has discovered a new talent for itself as it has moved into new areas of programming. MTV can make a damn good horror series ("Teen Wolf"). And the other stuff on MTV (music video unrelated) is damn good too.The same thing can't be said of SyFy Channel. Perhaps this is why after all of this time...they still haven't built for themselves....this stupendous...brand name recognition....super spectacular....dynasty "thing-a-ma-jig" that Bonnie Hammer keeps babbling about and dreaming about. It's been two years since their name change to SyFy Channel...and there is still no sign of this dynasty "thing-a-ma-jig" anywhere on the planet.

One of the things so startling about the SyFy Channel...is that I don't think they are even trying. I don't think they have ever tried to be good at what they are supposed to be doing....or tried to be good at doing....something, anything. Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark have become so pre-occupied with Psychographs, the psychological state of potential teenage viewers, and endless marketing theories....that they have lost sight of what they have never grasped in the first place....putting good, decent, and entertaining television programs on the air. Somewhere in their endless pre-occupation with Psychographs and marketing theories ad infinitum...the crappy ass programming on the SyFy Channel was the inevitable outcome. The reality of the situation for Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern is....their new programming ideas are always greeted with a unanimous..."What the fuck is this?"

It should also be pointed out that if Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern want this stupendous...brand name recognition....super spectacular....dynasty "thing-a-ma-jig" they keep babbling about to happen, the only way it will is if it falls from the sky and into their laps because as television programmers, they don't have the talents to build it for themselves and make it happen.