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  Sci Fi Channel (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sci Fi (sometimes rendered Sci-Fi when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming.
The channel was launched on September 24, 1992 as a sister cable channel to USA Network by then-owners Paramount Pictures (which was later acquired by Viacom in 1994) and MCA (then part of Japanese electronic giant Matsushita), the owner of Universal Studios, each with a 50% stake in the venture.
The channel was seen as a natural fit with classic film and television series that both studios had in their vaults, including Rod Serling's Night Gallery and Paramount's Star Trek and classic Universal horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel_(United_States)   (2629 words)

  
 Sci Fi Channel Gets LEXX
In a move that should bring joy to fans of British and European science fiction television, the Sci Fi Channel fulfilled years of febrile anticipation Thursday by bringing LEXX to the United States.
Sci Fi will start running the one-hour comedy/drama, which has already developed a cult following in most of the rest of the world, in January.
If the upcoming run is a success, Sci Fi has already committed to an option on the third LEXX "season," comprising a reported 13 additional episodes.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/lexx_991001.html   (700 words)

  
 Third 'Lexx' Looms on the Horizon for British Fans
With U.S. viewers still struggling to form an opinion of the Sci Fi Channel's decision to scramble the Lexx storyline, fans in the United Kingdom are already eagerly awaiting new episodes.
Although no U.S. broadcast is likely before late 2000, Sci Fi Channel programmers remain enthusiastic about their relationship with the show.
"Sci Fi received a terrific response to the debut of Lexx, and in particular to Xenia Seeberg, the actress who portrays Xev.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/tv/lexx_third_season_000203.html   (525 words)

  
 Sci-Fi Wire
SCI FI has bought the rights to Tales from a Parallel Universe, the four feature-length SF films that were the basis of the SCI FI series Lexx.
SCI FI had originally ordered 20 episodes of the show, about a ragtag crew of space wanderers aboard an insectoid starship.
SCI FI has acquired the rights to the first 20 episode of the series with the option to pick up additional seasons.
www.goldrush.com /~herd/lexx/sciwire.htm   (2633 words)

  
 Sci-Fi Brain - Sci-Fi Brain News -- August 22, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
SCI FI issued the following statement on Aug. 21: "SCI FI Channel is proud to be the network that brought Stargate SG-1 to its record-breaking 10th season.
Having achieved so much over the course of the past 10 years, SCI FI believes that the time is right to make this season their last on the channel.
SCI FI is honored to have been part of the Stargate legacy for five years, and we look forward to continuing to explore the Stargate universe with our partners at MGM through a new season of Stargate Atlantis."
blogs.ign.com /Sci-Fi_Brain/2006/08/22/28732   (619 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Roswell Dig Diaries (Sci Fi Channel Books): Books: SCI FI Channel,William H. Doleman,Thomas J. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
As part of the SCI FI Channel's ongoing mission to separate science fiction from science fact, the network sponsored an unprecedented, comprehensive archeological investigation of the crash site.
SCI FI Declassified: The Roswell Dig Diaries is the literary companion, including the final scientific conclusions, to the SCI FI Channel's highest-ever rated original special, The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence.
Likewise, it was hardly necessary to reprint the SciFi Channel's entire PR announcement heralding the broadcast (which occurred in November, 2002, while the book was copyrighted in 2004) of the documentary film of this Roswell dig.
www.amazon.com /Roswell-Diaries-Sci-Channel-Books/dp/0743486129   (1587 words)

  
 Sci Fi Channel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sci Fi channel (United Kingdom), a United Kingdom television channel launched in 1995.
Sci Fi Channel (France), a French television channel launched in 2005.
Sci Fi Channel (Spain), a Spanish television channel launched in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sci-Fi_Channel   (144 words)

  
 WWE: TV Shows > ECW > WWE brings ECW to SCI FI Channel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
New York, N.Y., May 25, 2006 - SCI FI Channel announced that World Wrestling Entertainment®, the producer of the No. 1 weekly basic cable TV series, “Monday Night RAW “on USA Network, will debut a summer series on Tuesday, June 13, at 10 p.m.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on.
Launched in 1992, and currently in 85 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
www.wwe.com.cob-web.org:8888 /shows/ecw/scifi   (354 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Sci Fi Channel (United States)
The name "Sci Fi" also is used by a German satellite television channel; see Sci Fi channel (Germany); and a British satellite television channel; see Sci Fi channel (United Kingdom).
Sci Fi is an American cable television channel, launched in 1992 and currently owned by corporate conglomerate NBC Universal, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming.
The Sci Fi channel has a long history of buying the rights to air second-run, or repeat progamming of series no longer in production.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sci_Fi_Channel_(United_States)   (229 words)

  
 SCI FI UK : About Us
At the present time SCI FI is available to viewers in the UK and Eire.
SCI FI is a channel service of NBC Universal Global Networks, a division of NBC Universal.
In addition to these channels, which have become leading pay services in their individual markets, NBC Universal Global Networks recently launched in Germany Das Vierte, the company's first free-TV channel outside the United States.
www.scifiuk.com /about.asp   (538 words)

  
 Sci Fi Channel (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sci Fi is the name of a United Kingdom satellite television channel specialising in science fiction, fantasy, and horror shows and movies.
The channel was also notable for being one of the first UK television channels to show anime movies and television series on a regular basis.
Initially, the UK Sci-Fi Channel on satellite television shared its transponder with no less than five other channels at one point, limiting its output to early evenings and late nights, with the rest of its continuous daytime programming (including cartoons) restricted to cable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sci_Fi_channel_(United_Kingdom)   (498 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
That RoperASW study, sponsored by the SCI FI Channel, shows that 72% of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity.
Hammer and the SCI FI Channel's interest in UFOs were part of a press event, held October 22 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The cable outfit declared its support for a new effort to gain release of secret government records on UFOs.
Bassett is a long-time lobbyist and activist on a quest to demystify the UFO phenomenon.
www.space.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/ufo_poll_021025.html   (1369 words)

  
 Bring Doctor Who To The United States On The Sci Fi Channel Petition
This is a channel that is happy with ratings of 2 million viewers, on average, for it's "big" Sci Fi Friday shows, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica.
The purpose of this petition is to tell the Sci Fi Channel to give us the new Doctor Who series instead of cheesey B-Movies and 30 year old re-runs of TV series that lasted one or two seasons.
So, to the Sci Fi Channel, we ask that you revisit Doctor Who and take a fresh look at a new series that could give you better ratings numbers and a higher revenue.
www.petitiononline.com /dwussf/petition.html   (619 words)

  
 SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
David Eick, co-executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming third season of the show is quite different from, but still of a piece with, all that preceded it in the miniseries and seasons one and two.
SCI FI Channel announced that it will join forces with Sundance Channel to launch Exposure, an eight-week short-film competition to find the best science fiction, horror or fantasy films to post on SCIFI.COM and SundanceChannel.com, with a grand prize of the chance to pitch a project to SCI FI Channel's Pictures Group.
SCI FI Channel announced the launch of Visions for Tomorrow, the network's new public affairs initiative, which engages individuals and organizations in exploring creative solutions to today's most pressing social concerns.
www.scifi.com.cob-web.org:8888 /scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=37456   (680 words)

  
 MST3K FAQ -- The Sci-Fi Channel (Home Of MST3K)
Ask for the Sci-Fi Channel, and you will be connected to their viewer response line, where you can leave a recorded message.
So anything the Sci-Fi Channel might show regularly was included in the definition of "sci-fi" -- that means horror and fantasy films as well, which made it a pretty broad list to choose from.
Then the channel became an independent operation, and channel officials changed their tune, claiming that they were trying to acquire more episodes.
mst3k.booyaka.com /mstfaq/scifi.html   (924 words)

  
 20 New Galactica: CRAVE SCI-FI
Through an agreement with the United Kingdom's Sky One, the show was aired on that satellite carrier last fall, months before the series aired in the United States.
Six scripts were ordered before the first episode even aired in the United States after the show got just under 1 million viewers in Britain.
Filming for the second season is expected to begin in March in Canada, and is expected to air in the United States and Canada next fall.
www.craveonline.com /scifi/articles/00001248/20_new_galactica.html   (445 words)

  
 Battlestar Galactica (New Series) - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
Although Sci Fi and Moore deplored this and publicly appealed for downloaders not to pirate the show, there was widespread speculation that its unauthorized electronic distribution contributed to the
Its strong audience draw was enough to prompt the channel to commission a new ongoing television series, the first episode of which drew an estimated 850,000 viewers — a 5% multichannel viewer share — on its world premiere on Sky One in the United Kingdom.
So convincing are the stealth units that they can associate with humans even at an intimate emotional and sexual level.
www.thebucklist.com /battlestargalactica.html   (2906 words)

  
 Groups Ready Lawsuit Against Government Stonewall: SCI FI Channel and Others Pressure DOD and NASA for Records - UFO ...
A year ago, with the support of John Podesta, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff and member of the Moynihan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, SCI FI Channel and the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFi) initiated an effort to obtain classified and other government documents on the Kecksburg crash.
In SCI FI's forthcoming documentary on Kecksburg entitled THE NEW ROSWELL: KECKSBURG EXPOSED, John Podesta states unequivocally, "Records of the investigation should be released.
As Podesta stated in SCI FI Channel's Kecksburg documentary, "Certainly having the military descend on a United States town, holding people at gunpoint, is not the ordinary way we do business in this country.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1313.htm   (840 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Cloud Ten Pictures' chief executive Peter Lalonde announced that the series is slated for broadcast in Canada in early 2003.
The series will also be available on video and DVD in both the United States and Canada, Lalonde said in a statement.
The series will follow the development of Nicolae Carpathia's global command center and chronicle the Tribulation Force's efforts to undermine and expose the man they believe to be the biblical Antichrist, the company announced.
www.scifi.com.cob-web.org:8888 /scifiwire/art-tv.html?2002-10/25/09.00.tv   (258 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
LONDON—James Hawes—director of the upcoming second-season Doctor Who episode "School Reunion," airing this weekend in Great Britain—told SCI FI Wire that it's one of his favorite pieces of work on the series to date.
He also directed the Who episodes "The Christmas Invasion" and "New Earth," as well as the two-part first-season episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances," which air in the United States on SCI FI Channel at 9 p.m.
The first season of Doctor Who airs in the United States on SCI FI Channel Fridays at 9 p.m.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/print.php?id=35777   (569 words)

  
 GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 cancelled, Atlantis renewed (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed.
Following the September 22 mid-season finale, SCI FI Channel intends to air the final 10 episodes of Stargate SG-1 beginning in March, 2007, a source confirmed to GateWorld.
Eastern and Pacific on SCI FI Channel in the United States.
www.gateworld.net.cob-web.org:8888 /news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml   (728 words)

  
 "Sci-Fi channel revives 'Mystery Science Theater 3K'"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Sci-Fi Channel has rescued the show from cancellation, adding MST3K to their lineup with 13 original episodes beginning in February.
It's even going international on the Sci-Fi Europe Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel block on USA Network Latin America, where the cast's nonstop wisecracks will be dubbed.
The Sci-Fi Channel reaches about 33 million cable households in the United States, roughly the same as Comedy Central.
www.homegame.org /plumm/msted/minnstar.html   (392 words)

  
 Sci-fi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In this usage it is often spelled "skiffy" which is pronounced to rhyme with "jiffy".
The name "Sci Fi" also is used by:
a United States television channel; see Sci Fi Channel (United States)
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sc/sci_fi.html   (147 words)

  
 MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 - EEGAH! DVD review
Let's answer the second question first: the chances are that you have never heard of this show if you live outside the United States or Canada.
Here in South Africa the show ran briefly on the Sci-Fi Channel, one of the multitude of channels to which satellite TV subscribers have access.
It ran for the greater part of a decade on both the Comedy Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel.
www.scifimoviepage.com /dvd/eegah.html   (1014 words)

  
 Science Fiction Weekly -- Letters to the Editor
SCI FI wishes to follow a path of adult-oriented, mature programming.
Galactica's popularity with adults now is in no small part connected with their remembrance of the original series, and of other shows which made us wonder as children what might be possible (and yes, I'd always wished I could strap into a Viper, even more than an X-Wing, cool as they are).
This quixotic monothematic approach by SCI FI, catering only to the adult and forgetting the next generation, abandons the very future SCI FI should be representing.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue417/letters.html   (2841 words)

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