Entertainment Fail

[kazari]

I'm sure I'm the last to hear about this (and via The Colbert Report no less!) but I just can't stop laughing. The SciFi channel is renaming themselves to the SyFy Channel to divorce themselves from the nerd image they feel is holding them back. Really? Seriously? The exec makes mention in the article that the change is in part to endear women to the network and boost ratings. Methinks good shows would do that. No? No? Apparently not. I stopped watching when they started airing more wrestling and reality shows than scifi. What does that make me?

Console yourselves ladies by visiting the Harlequin website and generating your own personalized romance novel blurb. It's beautiful. I imagine this is how they really write those plotlines.

Speaking of television that nobody watches, did anybody catch the premire of NBC's Kings? It's a retelling of biblical King David's story in a modern setting. Feels like a show that would be on Showtime or HBO but magically appeared on NBC when nobody was looking. No, really. It's premire was the lowest rated show on Sunday night. Go watch the first episode on Hulu why don't you? I find it pretty. I'd like it to get at least a little bit in before it's canceled and replaced with another Sherlock Holmes superdetective crime show.

Maybe I won't write about the con after all. Too much trouble. And nobody cares.

Comments

[reikamada.livejournal.com]

I watched Kings, I really liked it. I would have never heard about it unless you posted it. I think I'll try and catch the next episode. ^.^

[mizuno-caitlin.livejournal.com]

Sweet! It really hasn't been advertized much. I think they want it to fail. =(

[reikamada.livejournal.com]

Yeah, normally NBC advertises the crap out of their new shows. You see it everywhere until you are so sick of it you don't wanna watch it. I hope Kings survives a season at least.

[mizuno-caitlin.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too. I guess the recent drops from the fall season made them bashful? I don't get it. At least we'll get one or two more episodes. =(

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

NBC was doing very ambiguous ads for "Kings" several months ago (with just the image of the Gamboa butterfly-flag and the website address for kings2009.com). More descriptive ads were being run on the network after the Super Bowl.

(I've practically been living in a cave for the past several months, so I've probably seen more of the ads than any human should be subjected to, since my TV options were limited to NBC and PBS. I think the above paragraph pretty well proves it.)

As for the premiere itself, I thought it was interesting and want to see how it pans out in the long run. It was a bit of a let-down that the David vs. Goliath thing was over with in the first 20 minutes.

[mizuno-caitlin.livejournal.com]

I saw the ambiguious ads and looked up and then hadn't seen any since. I was actually looking foreward to it and I had no idea it was on on Sunday. I didn't figure it out until I saw the main guy interviewed on... Daily Show? I think? And the reviews are just brutal. I don't get it. :/

Meh. They hit three points of the story in the first episode, true. Too early to tell?