Bonnie Hammer needs to die a slow roasting death in the fires of the deepest pits of hell.

darkhorse23: Bonnie Hammer needs to die a slow roasting death in the fires of the deepest pits of hell.

Bonnie Hammer in Hell? She would just take over programming down there, rename the place, and manage to alienate the original target audience entirely. However, the new target audience would flock there in droves for "Mega Goat-faced Demon vs. Cthulhupus" and "Living Person Hunters".

This is why we can't have nice things.

She is the Newt Gingrich of cable tv channel presidents.

I used to watch Sci-Fi for re-runs of The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, and The X-Files. I think we all know how that turned out, not to mention most of that material being available for streaming online.

Burn Notice is good. And...that's about it.

On the one hand, i hate whats become of the sci-fi channel (though i do still enjoy their scripted shows, few and far between as they are), but i watch the hell out of everything on USA...

Cyno01: On the one hand, i hate whats become of the sci-fi channel (though i do still enjoy their scripted shows, few and far between as they are), but i watch the hell out of everything on USA...

Colin O'Scopy: Gdiguy: However, if she's the one responsible for Burn Notice / Suits / White Collar, then all is forgiven


YOU are the reason it sucks. Stop watching those retarded shows!!

Not every show has to be The Wire or Six Feet Under, every show on USA is entertaining and not reality crap, which puts them ahead of 99% of everything else on TV.

that bosnian sniper: exatron: She's the reason Farscape was cancelled.

/Yes, I still hold a grudge.

...Farscape was strike 1 as far as I was concerned. But, at least it got the Peacekeeper Wars. What has the Stargate franchise gotten recently except unfounded speculation of a BS reboot based around the original film's continuity?

Some of us had Sci-Fi at two strikes before Bonnie Hammer ever showed up.

It was her predecessor who canceled MST3K, and then canceled Sliders, even though Sliders was the #2 rated show on the Sci-Fi network (just behind Farscape). They set Sliders up to fail, and still canceled it when it succeeded without Jerry O'Connell, all so they could air a bunch of shows no one even remembers now.

So, Sci-Fi was going to shiat, original show-wise, before Bonnie Hammer even showed up. She just drove the final nails into the coffin.

gozar_the_destroyer: People still watch cable?

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You realize you posted a meme based on a show that was only resurrected because people watched it on cable, right?

FirstNationalBastard: It was her predecessor who canceled MST3K

Q: Why did Sci-Fi Channel officials decide to stop ordering episodes?
A: Initially, network executives said the issue was ratings, pure and simple. Later, they also noted that the cost of acquiring the rights to movies for riffing was getting too high. Many viewers also noticed a change in the network after Barry Schulman -- MST3K's chief defender at the channel -- departed, and Bonnie Hammer -- an executive from what was then Sci-Fi's parent company, USA Networks -- took over. MST3K apparently did not fit with her vision for the network.

If I recall correctly she also took over Comedy Central prior to the first cancellation.

Nefarious: FirstNationalBastard: It was her predecessor who canceled MST3K

Q: Why did Sci-Fi Channel officials decide to stop ordering episodes?
A: Initially, network executives said the issue was ratings, pure and simple. Later, they also noted that the cost of acquiring the rights to movies for riffing was getting too high. Many viewers also noticed a change in the network after Barry Schulman -- MST3K's chief defender at the channel -- departed, and Bonnie Hammer -- an executive from what was then Sci-Fi's parent company, USA Networks -- took over. MST3K apparently did not fit with her vision for the network.

If I recall correctly she also took over Comedy Central prior to the first cancellation.

I apologize. I got my dates wrong. I was under the impression she took over Sci-Fi in 2001.

So, she's always been the reason Sci-Fi shows were canceled or turned to shiat. Well then, I suppose that's what happens when you let someone who knows nothing about, and most likely hates, Science Fiction run the Sci-Fi channel.

/of course MST3K didn't fit with her vision of what the network should be... people enjoyed MST3K.

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Hey cool, Weyoun is in it.

I oughta check that one out.

exatron: Polish Hussar: exatron: hawcian: Is she the reason BSG had the stupidest ending possible?

She's the reason Farscape was cancelled.

/Yes, I still hold a grudge.

As do I. SciFi: We're renewing Farscape for seasons 4 AND 5. You know, on second thought, we're just going to cancel the show. 4 is a nice even number, good numeral to go out on, you guys don't mind, do you?

/Set phasers to maximum troll

Don't forget the part where the network told the cast and crew right after season 4 was essentially finished.

Farscape was replaced by "Tremors: The Series" if I recall correctly. Which I might not, because I was so ticked off by the cancellation of Farscape that all I remember was some sort of frelling red rage before my eyes for a few months. "Yeah, um, Farscape is too expensive now, so fark it, we'll cancel the #1 rated thing we've got going for us." Didn't help that they also played around with the schedule for Farscape too, not as bad as Whedon got frelled over, but still "hey let's air three episodes and then take a couple months off!"

They had a lock on a demographic (nerds) that by definition falls all over itself for show-related merchandise, not to mention targeted advertising for other nerd-related stuff, and they did to it what Rygel does in this scene. (pops)