If NBC wants to have some success on Thursday in the 9 p.m. hour, they will have to move either Earl or The Office to 9 p.m. While a fantastic show, Scrubs does not have the strength to be the tentpole.
As for 30 Rock, sigh. God knows I love this show, but I'm not liking its chances.
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If they think we're so fascinated with how TV shows get made, why don't they try a reality show about what goes on behind the scenes at some scripted series that is desperate enough to jump at the promotion? Done properly, that might actually open some eyes about the reality of making a primetime scripted show for a network.
It probably wouldn't work, though. Here's the thing. People eat sausages. People do not want to know how sausages are made. Because then they'd have to stop eating sausages.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: I think 30 Rock is just too inside to attract a mass audience. Nice try NBC...but no dice!
studio 60 is "too inside" in my opinion...but 30 rock is actually a good show...nbc should be patient with it...oh and i dont think it is to "in" either...jmo...
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: I think 30 Rock is just too inside to attract a mass audience. Nice try NBC...but no dice!
I'm surprised 30 Rock didn't do well at all last night. Not even a 6-7 million viewer audience! Tina Fey was everywhere this past week, from the Daily Show to the Howard Stern show on Sirius, and still less than 5 mil?
Well, I guess I was one of the few who did watch and liked it (while sacrificing a Grey's Anatomy recording although I knew that would repeat tonight). Now, let's see if the usually impatient NBC will be patient with 30 Rock. I hope so.
One more thing: Marc, although Grey's Anatomy is doing great for ABC on Thursdays, do you think a Grey's Anatomy repeat on Friday is slightly flattening the Thursday numbers?
I only bring this up because like I wrote before, I wouldn't have dared to record 30 Rock if I knew Grey's Anatomy only aired on Thursdays. If I didn't have a DVR and there was no Friday repeat, I would have only watched Grey's Anatomy over CSI and 30 Rock.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Marc Berman: I never got into The Rockford Files, but lead-out Police Woman was a guilty pleasure.
Hey Marc,
Gonna date myself here so here goes.
I was a teenager when Angie Dickinson starred in Police Woman and I was totally in love. I mean she must have been in her mid-forties when that show was made--right?? I watched that show for the four years it was on just for her. She was so damm beautiful then(never saw the show in syndication repeats--wonder why???). I would go to bed dreaming a teen's dream of the older woman--much younger man fantasy.
A year or two later I went to see "Dressed To Kill" starring Miss Dickinson--not knowing about her getting murdered in it(luckily). I remember when the elevator scene began that I said to myself"Don't worry--this is Police Woman. She will be fine." It took me a long time to get over the fact that she gets murdered in that scene and to remember that she was an actress and just playing both two different roles and damm good at it. Just like Janet Leigh in "Psycho"which this movie was a tribute to anyway. Goes to show you what an affect tv and the movies can have on us. AHH!!! Childhood memories!!!!
Some programs that have been "inside" have worked. News radio was wonderful! Maybe the new line-up with Scrubs will help. Studio 60 has some very funny moments if more people will give it try!
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I don't think that being "too inside" is what's the problem in either Studio 60's case or 30 Rock's. I found the first one to be overly pretentious and too reminiscent of The West Wing, which I never liked, and the second one is just not funny. Well, at least the pilot wasn't.
CSI was solid entertainment again yesterday with a great episode about identical twins. Very well done, in a season that has been one of its best. Glad to see it can still do well in the ratings.
My favorite show of the night was SURVIVOR, with the surprise double elimination. Great twists have made this season very unpredictable to the players and to the audience. The challenges in the water and some of the beach scenes are beautifully shot. Maybe it'll regain more viewers as the competition heats up.
SMALLVILLE wasn't very special for a sweeps episode, and I'll watch SUPERNATURAL later. I will not watch UGLY BETTY or GREY'S ANATOMY anymore, but I tried to watch THE OFFICE. It's okay and I like a lot of the little things they throw in, but it rarely makes me laugh. I didn't care for the storyline of this week's SHARK episode, and I'm not surprised the series hasn't been getting WITHOUT A TRACE ratings.
We should probably remember that The Mary Tyler Moore Show was basically about the inner workings of a TV news show, and it was one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. Because it was FUNNY.
I have this feeling that if Aaron Sorkin had run that show, the heroes would have been Ted, Lou, and Murray. Who would all have been written as serious super-competent profesionals with a wacky sense of humor, unbelievably rapid speech patterns, and the odd substance-abuse problem. Well, I guess Lou had some of that anyway.
SMALLVILLE wasn't very special for a sweeps episode, and I'll watch SUPERNATURAL later.
I haven't watched Smallville in a long time myself. It's deteriorated badly. I look enviously at that 8 o'clock timeslot and wish Supernatural had it instead because (as last night aptly demonstrated) it's a much better, more character driven program--IMO--and I'm weary of it withering on the vine at 9 where the numbers will never improve, especially on the CW which is still only available on digital cable in so many areas where it was a free channel before. The CW is still hit by sports preemptions as much WB and UPN ever were. That's pitiful.
NBC is never going to throw The Office in the 9 o'clock time period and risk losing numbers when it still has life left in it. Scrubs is done because Braff will be gone after this round no matter what, so NBC's going to burn off at 9. That's my theory. My Name is Earl and The Office have promise, so they'll stay at 8 and 8:30. I sure wouldn't move them to the 9 o'clock time period were I in charge. But I'm not. So I'm just whining.
Healingbuddy, I think we are separated at birth! But there was another scene that really stood out for me with Angie Dickinson in Dressed To Kill.
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Originally posted by healingbuddy: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Marc Berman: I never got into The Rockford Files, but lead-out Police Woman was a guilty pleasure.
Hey Marc,
Gonna date myself here so here goes.
I was a teenager when Angie Dickinson starred in Police Woman and I was totally in love. I mean she must have been in her mid-forties when that show was made--right?? I watched that show for the four years it was on just for her. She was so damm beautiful then(never saw the show in syndication repeats--wonder why???). I would go to bed dreaming a teen's dream of the older woman--much younger man fantasy.
A year or two later I went to see "Dressed To Kill" starring Miss Dickinson--not knowing about her getting murdered in it(luckily). I remember when the elevator scene began that I said to myself"Don't worry--this is Police Woman. She will be fine." It took me a long time to get over the fact that she gets murdered in that scene and to remember that she was an actress and just playing both two different roles and damm good at it. Just like Janet Leigh in "Psycho"which this movie was a tribute to anyway. Goes to show you what an affect tv and the movies can have on us. AHH!!! Childhood memories!!!!
