...and as hard as some of us may find it to believe, that type of person does actually exist.
Though I fail to see why he would use DS as an example of what may have been wrong with the Sci-Fi Channel when it had just started out when 1) DS was actually considered one of Sci-Fi's jewels in their schedule at that time (and was almost universally lauded as such), and 2) anyone who watched even a fraction of Sci-Fi's early programming would have found it impossible to miss the actual godawful dreck that comprised far too much of their schedule. I could be wrong, but given those facts, why do I suspect Mr. Howells 1) may have never even watched DS, 2) simply cited DS as an example merely out of his own ignorance/prejudice, and 3) never actually watched Sci-Fi back then and is thus completely unfamiliar with the quality or lack thereof of what was actually on the channel back then?
But anyway, for what it's worth, check out:
Children of Men Heads to Sci Fi ChannelPerhaps a few of us should politely enlighten Mr. Haskell by posting a few comments about what Sci-Fi was actually like.