It's true. Hollywood is run by a bunch of accountants and won't take risks on sci-fi. It's a small market segment, and a difficult one to please – a bunch of smart, hip, geeks raised on Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Star Wars. So we won't be seeing much good sci-fi from tinsel town any time soon.
Not surprising. Can you name one good sci-fi movie this year? How 'bout last year? Nope. Not a one. Well, maybe Primer, but that was independent.
5-10 years ago I had completely given up on TV (with the exception of X-Files and Star Trek: Voyager) and pretty much only watched dvds. We had The Matrix, The Fifth Element, tons of great shows like that – I was a demographic and loved it. Now it's reversed, all the good sci-fi is back on TV. We have possibly the most imaginative and well-written shows back on the air – Doctor Who. We have the gritty Battlestar Galactica. New stuff like The Triangle, The 4400, and Jericho look good. Recently we had Firefly, Enterprise and Stargate. Great stuff. Add in an HDTV PVR and I may never go to the theater or buy a dvd again. Why is this happening?
The long tail. Basically, TV can budget and sell to a smaller audience and still make money, while Hollywood can't. When on-demand or download becomes big, it will get even worse. Lesson to hollywood: sell to a mass market of one. Namely me.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72192-0.html?tw=wn_index_16
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