What makes The Biggest Loser even more impressive is that it has to be one of NBC's most profitable shows. No big stars to pay, a lot of product placements and good ratings and demos really do add up.
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Melrose is toast, too bad CW has nothing to replace it...surprisingly 90210 is up in viewers from when it ended last spring, i guess it has its small fanbase now
very good point, I think that show will be around for a loooong time....
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Originally posted by JimmyU: What makes The Biggest Loser even more impressive is that it has to be one of NBC's most profitable shows. No big stars to pay, a lot of product placements and good ratings and demos really do add up.
Originally posted by tvchtw: very good point, I think that show will be around for a loooong time....
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Originally posted by JimmyU: What makes The Biggest Loser even more impressive is that it has to be one of NBC's most profitable shows. No big stars to pay, a lot of product placements and good ratings and demos really do add up.
Perhaps, but if Jillian ever leaves, the show is toast. They made a lot of concessions to keep her this year since she made it very public she wanted to quit because she didn't like competing with Bob and what happened with certain individuals who started with Bob and then wouldn't train with her.
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Originally posted by tvchtw: very good point, I think that show will be around for a loooong time....
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Originally posted by JimmyU: What makes The Biggest Loser even more impressive is that it has to be one of NBC's most profitable shows. No big stars to pay, a lot of product placements and good ratings and demos really do add up.
I did but I also said I'd be thrilled if I was wrong!
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: Who predicted The Good Wife as an early casualty?
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Originally posted by trebek: So I guess those predictions of The Good Wife as an early casualty were wrong. If it maintains the demo in the next few weeks, it should get a full season pickup.
Matt LeBlanc to play sitcom actor in Showtime satire
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Matt LeBlanc is re-teaming with "Friends" co-creator David Crane along with "Mad About You" co-producer Jeffrey Klarik for a new Showtime comedy that spoofs the TV business.
In "Episodes," a hit UK comedy is turned into dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc, playing a version of himself.
The plot best recalls NBC's struggle to adapt the UK series "Coupling," before the network successfully launched its own version of British favorite "The Office."
Showtime has ordered six half-hours of the single-camera comedy, which is a co-production between the network and BBC Two and will air sometime next year.
"What a thrill to have two giants of the comedy world like Klarik and Crane to satirize what they know best: the making (or un-making) of art," said Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt. "We jumped at the chance to get involved with this cock-eyed look at network television told through the eyes of unsuspecting British producers who don't know what hit them when they enter the lion's den of Hollywood."
"Jeffrey and David have a great idea -- I love it," said Matt LeBlanc. "I am really excited to be working with Showtime and the BBC. And I am so glad I got the part, seeing someone else play Matt LeBlanc would have been devastating."
No one as far as I know, but I still think its a one and done. There is no long term potential for nursing home skewing fare in today's TV climate. That demo isn't bad, yet its losing a huge chunk of its lead in.
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: Who predicted The Good Wife as an early casualty?
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Originally posted by trebek: So I guess those predictions of The Good Wife as an early casualty were wrong. If it maintains the demo in the next few weeks, it should get a full season pickup.
Originally posted by TV is me: I can't get over how well NCIS is doing this season. What is the cause of this sudden ratings bump in its 7th season?! Do you think it has something to do with the reality/talk show overload on this night, making it one of the few scripted choices?
I wonder the same thing. If you don't like reality tv and are not a teenage girl, there really is no other option on the night. Second week of the fall season and I ended up watching the Disney animated film "Bolt" in prime-time. And we don't even have kids! I guess it was a bad idea to clean out the DVR on Monday.
I think this would be a good opportunity for FOX to move Fringe away from the log-jam on Thursday night and pop it behind the young-skewing Hell's Kitchen.
Originally posted by supertvfan101: Melrose is toast, too bad CW has nothing to replace it...surprisingly 90210 is up in viewers from when it ended last spring, i guess it has its small fanbase now
Something makes me think we'll see Life Unexpected sacrificed on Tuesdays at 8 so 90210 can be away from Idol again. Melrose Place could get a shot on Wednesdays at 9, but I don't think it has the legs to last.
CW is wasting Smallville on Fridays at this point. It should be leading off Tuesdays where it would pull an actual audience against Idol. Life Unexpected could air Tuesdays at 9 and 90210 could then be on Wednesdays at 9 behind the more female-skewing Top Model. Fridays could be encores of Top Model and burn off of the cancelled shows.
And we don't even have kids! I guess it was a bad idea to clean out the DVR on Monday.
