A hoax rather than a WTF?

[fenchurch]

SCI FI Channel to Change Name to SurgeTV

ETA: Some people on Whedonesque are saying this may be a hoax... And I just barely hit the link again for the original press release, which is no longer pointing to an article, just to the hosting website. Hmmm.

EATA: More info on the hoax (thanks for the link telaryn!)


Some of the pertinent bits, as posted on whedonesque:
"Effective November 1, 2006, the SCI FI Channel will change their name to SurgeTV, to reflect the changing demographic thrust of the successful long-running cable channel. In addition, deals are currently working out to bring back ECW for a three-times a week run in prime time, as well as reruns (Pre-WWE) of professional wrestling events"

Wrestling?!?!? WRESTLING?!?!!? As if there isn't enough of that over on seven or eight other channels. Sheesh.

Oh, but it gets better...

"While much of the original programming the SCI FI Channel has produced will remain on air through the next year, SurgeTV expects sweeping changes to the network, shifting away from the so-called "nerd" demographic."

Yeah, well, screw you, too. And the marketing advisors you rode in on.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I've updated my original entry a bit, because it's starting to look like it *is* a hoax. It was a pretty convincing one, though... the site looked professional, the article was well-written and it seemed like exactly the sort of thing that a marketing department would come up with. However, when I just went to take another look at it, the page is gone and redirects to the main page of the hosting site.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Heh. Looks like I'll need to double up my blood-pressure medicine after that. But, really, it so wouldn't surprise me because, after all, wrestling?! Why the bleedin' hell a network that's all about science fiction and fantasy puts wrestling in their schedule is beyond me, regardless of how much pro-wrestling is pure fantasy.

At least that stupid reality show Who Wants to be a Superhero features Stan Lee who is a god among comic book nerds.

But, yeah, it really wouldn't surprise me if they start phasing out sci-fi/fantasy and put on more of the same crap you can find in forty-hundred-eleventy other networks. We nerds just don't get no respect. :(

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Also, it looks like Simon at whedonesque took down the post.

[corranterrik.livejournal.com]

But if you think about it, isn't wrestling kind of like a fantasy? After all, how much further from reality can you get? And as for the science portion (we know it's already fiction), I suppose one could always sit there and try to apply physics (He jumped into the ring and slammed that guy. Let's calculate the angle and figure out the odds of that exact move ever happening again).

Yeah, I don't get wrestling on that channel, either.