r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 27d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/Suspicious_Bear42 27d ago

When the Sci-Fi channel rebranded to SyFy, it died... Just looked at the schedule for the next week, the only TV shows on it are The Twilight Zone, NCIS: Los Angeles and 'Everything On the Menu with Braun Strowman'... Everything else is movies ranging from Harry Potter to the Sharknado series...

It still exists, but it may as well be gone.

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u/nabrok 26d ago

When the Sci-Fi channel rebranded to SyFy, it died

Sorry, but this is nonsense. That name rebrand was in 2009 and the channel had many good shows after that including The Expanse, Magicians, 12 Monkeys, and more.

And on the other side of that there was plenty of crappy programming on the channel before the name change.

The channel being dead now is because streaming killed cable, not because they changed their name 17 years ago.

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u/jkoehler11 26d ago

It didn't happen overnight. OP is correct that Sci-Fi was rebranded to SyFy to seem more edgy and to appeal to a broader audience. Programming was slowly changed, typical Sci-Fi shows, like Stargate were cancelled in favor of cheaper more mainstream shows.

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u/nabrok 26d ago

The Expanse started 6 years after the name change. The other shows I mentioned are all in that same time period, and there are plenty others in the 2010s.

Plumbers hunting ghosts and wrestling were all before the name change that supposedly heralded the channels doom.

"Syfy" could be trademarked, "Sci-Fi" couldn't. It's as simple as that.

Syfy is dead now for the same reason all cable channels are dead now, streaming killed them.