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jonesy

A Wicked Kendragon
I'm not sure about Elvira.. I know she has new episodes of her show in syndication, but I don't think she could cut it without soft lighting an a Gaussian blur.
Are you kidding? She looks better now than she ever did. This is from 2011 San Diego Comic-Con:
 

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NewJeffCT

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For example, consider The Dukes of Hazard: many seasons, one expensive car, 6 rustic sets and some farmland to drive on. Cheap action series. Why not remake this as The Dukes of Alhazred? Plot: some good ole boys (minor knights) in medieval Europe fighting to keep some Moorish invaders (led by Bas Hadji) from using the Necronomicon to unleash creatures from beyond time & space into the world in a misguided attempt to use them as shock troops.

I'm sure others here have ideas of equal merit- go ahead and post them so that fat-cat SyFy execs can see them!

Dude - that's the plot of the SyFy movie of the week in early October...with Bruce Boxleitner, Robert Picardo and Debbie Gibson.

;)
 






Villano

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While they're at it, why not throw some money at Elvira or Joe Bob Briggs to do some new shows in their style! Getting a host like that couldn't help but improve the fun factor of the crap movies they show. Imagine JBB's commentary on a movie like Spring Break Shark Attack. Or Elvira's take on Ice Spiders.

I like the way you think. I've been saying that SyFy needs a movie host for years.

Unfortunately, as much as I love Elvira's new show, I don't think it would work too well on SyFy. She seem to be airing them in blocks of "a few new episodes, followed by a bunch of reruns, a couple new ones, a lot of reruns, etc.". It's been on for a year, but they've only shown 20 of the 24 or 26 they're scheduled to air.

However, there are plenty of other hosts out there like Penny Dreadful, Zomboo, Ghoul-A-Go-Go, Mr. Lobo, Monster Madhouse, and Dr Gangrene. Just checking out their websites, many say they are available for syndication. If you have access to their back catalogue of shows along with the new ones, you'll have plenty of episodes to spare.

And then there are people like Roxsy Tyler who are just doing their shows on the web. No reason you can't air them on TV. You could even bring back guys like Dr. Sarcofiguy, whose shows are cancelled.

Of course, these people show old, public domain films, so SyFy might not even care. Honestly, I can't even remember the last time SyFy aired a classic old movie, let along a B picture. It seems they only care about direct-to-video, bad CG crap. :(
 
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Dannyalcatraz

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You know, I have half a mind to send a link to this thread to the people at SyFy.

Unfortunately, it's in a jar that was stolen by Bruce Campbell...
 

While I would love some actual sci-fi on SyFy(pronounced see fee because it's just WRONG the other way..) I have a feeling that the problem started when the old execs got canned and replaced. First it started with the paranormal shows, I still to this day wonder if some moron programming exec said in a meeting "Sci-Fi nerds are into conspiracies, this has got to work! I mean they all like the X-Files, right?"

Soon after the chick from Spike was moved to SyFy and wrestling showed up, sure, it didn't really work on a network aimed at men from 14-36 with an IQ smaller than their shoe size, so playing it on a network where men and women of an above average IQ that were probably beaten up by the aforementioned men when they were in High School should be just the place. (I really don't like her....)

I guess the next thing is to move in NASCAR, country music concerts and high school sports coverage from around the globe... :eek:
 

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