I did not watch it. I find that is has no mass appeal; it is too inside.
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Originally posted by xwiseguyx: On a totally unrelated another note, did anyone else watch Mama's Family last night? What a hoot that Mama is!
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Originally posted by paso: This cavemen stuff is so lazy. It's boring lazy humor. I'm not talking about the show. I'm talking about the witty repartee on this board. You included Marc. Yeah... it's not a great show. We get it. How did it become the symbol of the decline of western civilization? No worse than a bunch of other stuff. Better than some. Get over yourselves.
Originally posted by WelcomeToK-Ville: The CW has created two problems for itself. The first problem is not enough replacement shows to fill in the gaps.
They have One Tree Hill, Crowned, Farmer, 8 Days a Week, and Pussycat Dolls. It isn't like their backup drawer is completely empty.
The problem is that Crowned, Farmer, and Pussycat Dolls are all filler for off-season, not shows designed to run a full season. CW was setting up a schedule to avoid having too many repeats, not a schedule to have a ton of full season backups in case all their Fall shows failed. What they set up is very cost effective and a reasonable way to keep ratings 'higher' over the course of the season. They don't have the money to order double the number of scripted shows just as they don;'t have the money to hire 'stars'. the network can only do its best within the dollar rhelm it has to spend.
The CW has created two problems for itself. The first problem is not enough replacement shows to fill in the gaps. Did the CW expect all of their shows to hit?
No, but they probably couldn't afford any more--I mean, do you think they'd have ever put CW Now on the air if they weren't critically short on development cash? They're dumb, but they aren't CRAZY.
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All networks have at least options for when all things go wrong.
Sure, but this isn't a real network, and it can't afford a real network's development slate. It's a pretend network, with a pretend network's development slate.
Of course, if they hadn't gone with high-priced overrated name talent for their scripted shows, they would have had more to go around.
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And with the CW being so new, they should have had more than the typical network.
You mean the typical networks that have money?
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The second problem is completely giving up on Sundays and not caring about the results. Sunday is a huge TV watching night.
One could hardly blame CW's executives for concluding otherwise, based on their own experience.
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There is an audience but CW is not going to get it with cheap filler and a series oddly placed in the middle of it. They either need to craft a night or just do local programming on Sunday like MNTV.
Originally posted by Obveeus: Don't let the close window hit you on the way out.
Ahhhhhh!! I can feel the love!!!
if this place had a PA system, I'd get on their right now and declare my love for you...and if you watched CW shows, you would understand the reference.
Originally posted by Obveeus: Don't let the close window hit you on the way out.
Ahhhhhh!! I can feel the love!!!
if this place had a PA system, I'd get on their right now and declare my love for you...and if you watched CW shows, you would understand the reference.
I'm still going to try reaper... sometime. Just need to find the time and DVR space.
But then again, the last time I took a show recomendation form someone on this forum, I had to sit through 30 Rock!! Yuck
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Personally, I have always felt that the 18-49 demo it too wide a range.
I agree. Of course, Nielsen does have other demo numbers so that the advertisers can get a better idea of ratings for specific subgroups. The 18-49 is simply the 'all-inclusive', most important demo. If Nielsen had 20 different demos to report, newspapers and such would still likely latch on to only one or two of them, so 18-49 makes sense as a broad brush.
One other thing on demos and your breakdown of age groups: I've seen studies that suggest that the average person doesn't even move out until around 25 years old now. You need to adjust your subgroup thinking to account for those leaches.
One other thing on demos and your breakdown of age groups: I've seen studies that suggest that the average person doesn't even move out until around 25 years old now. You need to adjust your subgroup thinking to account for those leaches.
No one pinned you down to the chair to watch 30 Rock did they? (And if it was your wife pinning you down, you probably wouldn't have TV on the mind.) I watched many a show and was bright enough to figure it wasn't my cup of tea after 9.5 minutes. I know that it is 9.5 minutes of my life I could have spent here on the forum, but... well, I feel sad it can never be recouped.
But back to the point, what was it again? Oh yeah... Just because your too lazy to move your right hand (or are you a lefty - I've digressed again damn it) and grab the remote, you shouldn't blame others. And while were on to recommendations, please check out 30 Rock again this Thursday! You're gonna love it! Really! Trust Me!!
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As far as watch the whole 40 minute episode, I tend to do that. I will give a show a whole episode. Sometime the payoff is worth the wait.
As for watching 30 Rock this thursday, all i have to say is... "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me Twice, shame on Me". AND Mama didn't raise no fool.
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Originally posted by xwiseguyx: No one pinned you down to the chair to watch 30 Rock did they? (And if it was your wife pinning you down, you probably wouldn't have TV on the mind.) I watched many a show and was bright enough to figure it wasn't my cup of tea after 9.5 minutes. I know that it is 9.5 minutes of my life I could have spent here on the forum, but... well, I feel sad it can never be recouped.
But back to the point, what was it again? Oh yeah... Just because your too lazy to move your right hand (or are you a lefty - I've digressed again damn it) and grab the remote, you shouldn't blame others. And while were on to recommendations, please check out 30 Rock again this Thursday! You're gonna love it! Really! Trust Me!!
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: But then again, the last time I took a show recomendation form someone on this forum, I had to sit through 30 Rock!! Yuck
Counting the My Network TV junk, this fall the broadcast nets trotted out 33 new shows (4 of which haven't even debuted yet). I really have no clue how that can be "insane" when it's on par with what we're asked to check out every fall. The only network who's asking anyone to check out something resembling an insane number of new shows is ABC -- mostly because Steve McPherson is a complete idiot.
