elsewhere: sci-fi and anime

[iainpj]

Yes, I know, I'm a posting demon today.

Media Relations: sci-fi and anime/ May 7, 2007:

...OK, so here's what I don't get about this:

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim has complained long and hard that with the sole, solitary exception of Inuyasha, People Will Not Watch Anime, yet they complain ferociously when they don't get it. To be sure, I think at least a little of it is the scheduling -- Saturday nights is a horrendous time to try to woo the young adult audience, considerably worse even than Friday night, which is bad enough. And I do think that Sci Fi will probably do better programming on Monday nights -- albeit not necessarily better during the summer, but then again, they probably have almost no late night viewers during the summer. [...] the concept of Sci-Fi as a "lifestyle brand", whatever that may be, kind of doesn't work. I mean, when I think of "lifestyle brand", I think Martha Stewart or something like that. (Although, come to think of it, a Sci-Fi themed cooking show would be fascinating, for the geekly disaster factor if nothing else. and if they were sensible, it would be the sort of show where disaster loomed at every second, yet somehow, food was reasonably cooked. But I digress.)