You haven't had to suffer years of the BBC taking off any Sci-fi fantasy show to make room for ANY sport (mainly Snooker, if you can call this a sport). They've been doing that for at least 15 years now (and now, apart from DR. Who, I don't think they've got ANY Sci-fi or Fantasy shows. They never had Angel which went to Channel 4, who then lost it to Channel 5 (who I think still haven't shown Season 5 of Angel yet) and the BBC also lost (or didn't bid for) the repeats of Buffy, which Channel 5 have also got now.

BBC2 used to be the hallmark of all the best US and UK Sci-fi and Fantasy shows, but over the last two years they've have done their best to purge it all from their progrmming. I'm actually quite surprised that DR. Who even got made with the attitude towards the genre that they have now.