for a number of years they tried to bring in more women into the channel, which is why SGU was full of menstrual cramps and why the first BSG spinoff was the story of how i met your robot mother. then the chick behind all the changes moved over to head NBC Universal (or something like that) so then I guess a guy who really likes wrestling and ghosts took over.
Now whoever is in charge is slowly going back to Scifi roots with Defiance, High Moon, Orion, Legion, and a bunch of other new shows in the pipeline. They could change to the syfy cooking network before you blink.