Here's a bad idea:

Channel formerly known as SciFi adding more reality shows to its line up.

Further investigation shows that one of these reality shows features a real life psychic, a second is another ghost show, and the most ominous will put a documentary spin on werewolves. Channel formerly known as SciFi, I'm going to tell you: even In Search Of... often had to do quite a lot of padding in its twenty-two minutes bits, and they didn't restrict themselves to fabled beasts. I mean, two or three faded, questionable pictures of Nessie, and you're kinda done.

(Not that I don't still not so secretly hope that a watery dinosaur will be leaping out of Loch Ness some day; it's just that covering the lack of evidence for this doesn't fill up a lot of time.)

And then we have this:

Syfy is also entering the reality competition genre with "Ghost Hunters Academy," pitting aspiring spirit chasers against each other in weekly elimination challenges -- a "Project Runway" for the haunted-house set.

Words fail me. No, they really fail me. Ok, I have an image of poor Catherine Howard's ghost shrieking at contestants, "EXCUSE me, I'm TRYING TO CARRY MY HEAD here!" while Anne Boleyn's ghost merrily disrupts the proceedings, but...Yeah. Words. Fail.

Look, channel formerly known as SciFi. How did you gain love, fame and popular attention? Through Battlestar Galatica, and to a somewhat lesser extent, Doctor Who imports and Stargate. What do all of these shows have in common? They are blatantly, happily, not real. (Special shoutout to Stargate: Universe here, which doesn't even feature particularly realistic humans just now.) What were people at MegaCon, essentially your viewing audience, chatting about this past weekend? Caprica and Doctor Who. What were they buying? Eureka and little Doctor Who toys. Who were they lining up to see? Actors from Battlestar Galatica and the various Star Treks. Do we feel the theme here?

Now, yes, if you head to TV ratings I'm the first to admit the reality that American Idol and The Bachelor attract a very, very large viewership. But the other reality is, I'm betting, hands down, that the typical The Bachelor viewer has no idea that your channel actually exists. On the other hand, the viewers of Lost and Fringe (I'm too lazy to go hunt down Fringe's ratings, but the show has been doing well despite the cow) have been showing that they (along with Supernatural viewers will tune in no matter what utter absurdities are thrown at them as long as some good looking people, decent dialogue, and suspense are thrown in.

Oh well. I guess we all knew stuff like this was coming.