It's recently come out that SyFy is losing even more money due to what we predicted in these comment threads:

Now THIS I can get behind! A channel for SciFi would be AWESOME!

If they didn't go up as the season progressed then announcing its cancellation ahead of time shot it in the foot.

its also popular by legal online standards part of the problem, is that ratings are still only measured by tv connections to the channel. which in this day and age is obviously flawed. its estimated that 15% for the viewer market is whats left on tv the other 85% is either not watching any more, only watches on dvds,…

What are his popular shows? He scored with Lost, but since then he's been cancelled or on the brink of cancellation. No one is minting money with series sci fi right now, at Sy Fy's budget or higher.

I also don't get one thing: Why is the most popular series on the Pirate Bay not popular?

I still hate them for it. It was the only thing I watched on tv. Now I need to get my fix, I don't know where! I still hope we are getting more of this story in some way

"how much can you ask of them?" This is not a failure of the genre, it is a failure to market the genre. JJ Abrams makes ridiculously science fiction-ized shows which are popular across wide demographics and they're successful partly because he knows how to market them. SyFy can easily put in more brainpower and…

Shifting time slots.