UK Female Sci-Fi Viewers Now Outnumber Males

mosel-saar-ruwer writes "The UK Telegraph is reporting that, due to the popularity of Buffy, Lara Croft, and Xena, female sci-fi viewers now outnumber males, at 51%-49%. From the article: 'People have an impression of sci-fi fans being small men who sit in the dark watching Star Trek but it's not like that now ... There has been an increase in positive female role models, whereas in Star Trek, all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts.'"

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Re:Ahh..

[kcarlin]

Thats a good way to widen your audience -- Just misclassify things as SciFi.

Laura Croft is no more SciFi than Indiana Jones -- Its adventure.
Buffy/Xena is Mytho. No Science involved at all, just adjusted beliefs leading to an alternate reality.

You nailed it. The article refers to viewership of the "Sci-Fi" channel and they have simply improved their female demographic by abandoning their format for gods, vampires, and the T&A clone of Indiana Jones. Not even a token space opera to provide a Sci-Fi figleaf. Then the Telegraph is clueless enough to miss the story by a hundred parsecs.