tviv.org has a list of premiere show dates on the far right column.
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Originally posted by robert: Is there any site where i can find a list with the premiere dates for the new midseason cable and network shows and also those for the returning shows? Any help is appreciated, thanks
1976 - 1977 (Households with TV: 71,200,000) RANK SHOW NETWORK ESTIMATED AUDIENCE
1. Happy Days ABC 22,428,000
2. Laverne & Shirley ABC 22,000,800 3. ABC Monday Night Movie ABC 18,512,000 4. M*A*S*H CBS 18,440,800 5. Charlie's Angels ABC 18,369,600 6. The Big Event NBC 17,372,800 7. The Six Million Dollar Man ABC 17,230,400 8. ABC Sunday Night Movie ABC 16,660,800 9. Baretta ABC 16,660,800 10. One Day at a Time CBS 16,660,800 11. Three's Company ABC 16,447,200 12. All in the Family CBS 16,304,800 13. Welcome Back, Kotter ABC 16,162,400 14. The Bionic Woman ABC 15,948,800 15. The Waltons CBS 15,877,600 16. Little House on the Prairie NBC 15,877,600 17. Barney Miller ABC 15,806,400 18. 60 Minutes CBS 15,592,800 19. Hawaii Five-O CBS 15,592,800 20. NBC Monday Night Movie NBC 15,521,600 21. Rich Man, Poor Man, Book II ABC 15,379,200 22. Monday Night Football ABC 15,094,400 23. Eight is Enough ABC 15,023,200 24. The Jeffersons CBS 14,952,000 25. What's Happening !! ABC 14,880,800 26. Good Times CBS 14,596,000 27. Sanford and Son NBC 14,453,600 28. ABC Friday Night Movie ABC 14,382,400 29. The Tony Randall Show ABC 14,311,200 30. Alice CBS 14,240,000
Could someone explain this to me? It just seemed randomly posted but it has to be wrong even as an estimate. In the 1976/77 season there were basically three choices for TV programming, ABC, CBS and NBC. I mean MASH's farewell (1983) had over 125 million viewers. Dallas's Who Shot JR (1980) episode got a 53.3 rating and a 76 share! That's absolutely unheard of today.
Of course by the start of the 1990s network TV was down to 55% of the market and kept dropping, but back in the 1970 it belonged to the Big 3 networks. So what gives with this post?
Please lay off the canadian jokes. They're either based on lies, unfunny or exagerated. You can do better.
Not-amusedly yours, metal
Yeah, it's such a total slur on Canadians to say how nice and polite they are. Oh, and to have them represented by Cobie Smulders.
C'mon, lighten up. What's your problem? Have there been a lot of blackouts in your area lately?
I wasn't being serious at all. I'm not a serious person in general, much less about stupid jokes and forums conversations. Call me a bitch, see if I care.
I totally didn't mean it as an insult to the show either. I always watch it, but Barney is the only character who makes me laugh recently. I only made an observation, that there's SO many stupid jokes about Canada that aren't funny to me and lately I just roll my eyes. I just want the writers to be more creative with the jokes instead of it always being the same thing.
And I don't live in Canada. I live in Manhattan. And yes, there are some blackouts that freak me out. Cause Robin is right, nobody likes them, which makes the stereotypical jokes not funny.
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I agree. There is no shopping this show elsewhere. It's done. They were told they were cancelled on November 11 and didn't finish shooting until Thanksgiving week. John Eisendrath and Jason Smilovic pretty much gave the audience the finger, because it's not like they didn't have time to rewrite the ending into something more final. Maybe they weren't even expecting the episode to air...
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Originally posted by willowhaven:
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Originally posted by Riff Rafferty: I agree. They did make the decision before the final episode's filming concluded. They made it a good 2 weeks before. The producers chose to end it on a cliffhanger, anyway. Sucks, but that's life.
Hmm..an article I was reading made it seem like they had wrapped the filming of the final episode. Sorry for my misunderstanding. Do you think MOWE's producers did the cliffhanger in the hopes they could shop the show elsewhere? It doesn't make all that much sense the way they did it if they did have advance notice. Hey, a girl can hope. LOL
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