They might as well. What they are doing now is totally NOT working.
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: And shift Heroes to Sundays while they're at it to pair with Merlin and Kings and go with DOND into the Apprentice and Medium on Mondays.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: They could get around that by moving CHUCK to Thursdays @ 8pm and then using a new 1hour program on at 8pm on Mondays
I've been saying for a year and a half that a network needs to do this.
If this is true and it does get a green light for early 2009, Sundays is the perfect day for it.
CBS Sundays: 7pm - 60 Minutes 8pm - Old Christine 8:30 - Gary Unmarried 9pm - John Mayer Variety Show 10pm - Harpers Island
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: TMZ is reporting that John Mayer will host a variety series or music or sketch program of some sort. The eye wants it for early next year.
Not Fitting CBS??? Back in the Day, CBS was KING of the Variety shows. Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan, Sonny & Cher, and there were many more.
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Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: I don't see this fitting with the CBS demographic at all. This is something NBC would attempt. Perhaps Fridays at 9 PM to fill in that hole? Sundays at 9 PM?
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: TMZ is reporting that John Mayer will host a variety series or music or sketch program of some sort. The eye wants it for early next year.
Honestly, I don't see that lineup flowing all that well. The comedies are pretty older skewing and wouldn't do much better than 60 Minutes in the demo (2.5 to 3.0 if I had to guess). I also think the Unit needs to be allowed to end properly. I guess the remaining eps of that could air Wednesdays at 8 and then TAR could take over once that's wrapped up and Idol has moved onto 9pm. Fridays would be the perfect night for Cold Case and this would allow CBS to keep Thursdays at 10 fresh too as 11th Hour could air until March and then Flashpoint could air post-CSI. The only thing is: what happens if Mayer and Harper's flops (Harper's looks pretty shaky too)? Will CBS bring back the Made for TV Movie and simply turn Sunday back into older skewing night?
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: I've been saying for a year and a half that a network needs to do this.
If this is true and it does get a green light for early 2009, Sundays is the perfect day for it.
CBS Sundays: 7pm - 60 Minutes 8pm - Old Christine 8:30 - Gary Unmarried 9pm - John Mayer Variety Show 10pm - Harpers Island
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: TMZ is reporting that John Mayer will host a variety series or music or sketch program of some sort. The eye wants it for early next year.
Sundays, Tuesdays, and 2/3 of Thursdays are all that's working for NBC right now. I suppose I could add Chuck and Law and Order to that list, but that's really stretching it.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: They might as well. What they are doing now is totally NOT working.
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: And shift Heroes to Sundays while they're at it to pair with Merlin and Kings and go with DOND into the Apprentice and Medium on Mondays.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: They could get around that by moving CHUCK to Thursdays @ 8pm and then using a new 1hour program on at 8pm on Mondays
I'm not sold on the schedule. 60 Minutes and comedies fit well together because they are older skewing. However, the John Mayer show is going to be younger skewing and not pair well with the first two hours. Harper's Island is just a burnoff.
If John Mayer was placed on Sundays, I'd do:
60 Minutes The Amazing Race John Mayer Variety Show The Unit
60 Minutes and The Amazing Race would have problems with retention. However, The Amazing Race and The Unit are both younger skewing and would draw in the same audience as the John Mayer Variety show.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: I've been saying for a year and a half that a network needs to do this.
If this is true and it does get a green light for early 2009, Sundays is the perfect day for it.
CBS Sundays: 7pm - 60 Minutes 8pm - Old Christine 8:30 - Gary Unmarried 9pm - John Mayer Variety Show 10pm - Harpers Island
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Not Fitting CBS??? Back in the Day, CBS was KING of the Variety shows. Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan, Sonny & Cher, and there were many more.
What has that got to do with the current CBS Network that features mostly dead body procedurals?
I'm reasonably certain George HW Bush won with a larger landslide in 1988.
Not relevant, because he was running as Reagan II--he was an incumbent Vice President, against a weak opponent, who didn't know how to respond to all the mud Lee Atwater threw at him.
And even so, Dubya's dad got 53.4% of the popular vote--Obama won 52.7%.
I'm reasonably certain George HW Bush won with a larger landslide in 1988.
Not relevant, because he was running as Reagan II--he was an incumbent Vice President, against a weak opponent, who didn't know how to respond to all the mud Lee Atwater threw at him.
And even so, Dubya's dad got 53.4% of the popular vote--Obama won 52.7%.
And he won that in his own right.
Wake up and smell the ownage.
Nice try at rationalizing. Let me amend your original comment then to head off any further need to add additional conditions:
Barack Obama won the largest landslide of every presidential election he has run for President in. Does that pretty much cover it?
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Nice try at rationalizing. Let me amend your original comment then to head off any further need to add additional conditions:
Barack Obama won the largest landslide of every presidential election he has run for President in. Does that pretty much cover it?
You forgot to mention that the grapes were sour and you didn't really want them anyway.
There's nothing to be sour about. As someone who has voted in many more elections than you have (you're what, 16? 19 tops? No one I know over the age of 20 uses 'ownage') I've lost as much as I've won. As a person who actually cares about history and, therefore, accuracy, I felt the need to point out that your already overly-ridiculously qualified comment was still wrong. Attempting to 'own' me doesn't change that.
EDIT: Of course the Democrats won in 2006. Since WWII, the opposition party has gained seats in Congress during mid-term elections all but three times: once in the 50s, '98 (Impeachment backlash), and '02 (post-9/11 support for the administration). What happened in '06 is politically insignificant because it corresponded with the expected result.
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I'm not the one you need to be telling that. Go find a mirror.
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As someone who has voted in many more elections than you have (you're what, 16? 19 tops? No one I know over the age of 20 uses 'ownage')
How many people you know voted for Obama?
I voted for the first time in 1980--and whaddaya know? Reagan won 50.7% of the popular vote. The country wasn't so polarized then, and he also won a much bigger electoral vote margin. But he didn't get a majority in both houses of congress.
And btw, voter turnout was WAY lower.
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I've lost as much as I've won.
You aren't going to start singing now, are you?
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As a person who actually cares about history and, therefore, accuracy,
So I guess you were in favor of a full recount in 2000?
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I felt the need to point out that your already overly-ridiculously qualified comment was still wrong.
Yes, and you felt obliged to point this out right after saying we needed to stop talking about the election. Funny.
Originally posted by dumont: So many Peacock series with their hopes cut short.
Here are some of the recent NBC cancellations with stacks of unaired episodes, rank-ordered in terms of my preference in seeing them air their unaireds:
'20 Good Years' 'Heist' 'Four Kings' 'quarterlife' 'Teachers'
Silly dumont. "Teachers" aired all its episodes (minus the "Fillmore Middle" pilot). To what it owed that privilege, I have no idea. Apparently, Kevin Reilly didn't bother to watch it.
And NBC just moved "Quarterlife" to Bravo after the co-creator whined that it didn't belong on network TV. Neither did any of his other dreary, depressing, whiny shows, yet somehow they all got on there, too.
"Thick & Thin" deserved a shot out of a 90-minute "Biggest Loser." The critics threw rotten fruit at it, but the pilot was no worse than the putrid "The Office" pilot.
-- "Better Off Ted," Wednesdays at some time or another at some point or another in the near future. Because we can't all live in mansions and not ever work like the people on "Modern Family."
