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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1241470" data-attributes="member: 177">Actually, for a channel of it's type, SciFi's ratings aren't bad at all.  Not stellar, but very few (if any) cable channels like it have stellar ratings.Sci Fi knows what the fans like about as well as any other TV channel knows what the viewers like.  If they didn't, they wouldn't have mediocre ratings, they'd have abysmal ratings.  Creation of shows is an art, not a science, so every channel will get shows that run for 1 to 6 episodes and then get cancelled.  The problem here is a simple one. Some genre fans like to think that the channel should be full of intelligent stuff.  But, lo and behold, there's lots of people who'd prefer stupid stuff, so that Crossing Over and it's ilk actually last a while.</blockquote>