Syfy has lost the rights to “Smackdown,” which is going over to USA network.
There is a downside: apparently wrestling brought in a lot of money to Syfy, so it may well be that Syfy will become a lower-budget network. But… you know, there’s not a single reason why that means that they will *necessarily* suffer for it. As I and many others have suggested repeatedly, Syfy needs to just troll through YouTube. Find the people who are making excellent 15 minute short films for $10K, and given them $100K to make an hour-long film. And those that work out… give ’em $250K per episode to make a series out of ’em.
And stop taking great ideas (“Ascension,” before it aired) and then turning them into crap (“Ascension,” as it aired). Syfy has had literal gold mines in the past… Battlestar, the Stargate franchise, Farscape. Build on them. Hell, give me an income and *I* will write a good series or two.