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My wife and I see it as a much thinner schedule coming this coming fall, as compared to the last few falls. Not unexpected, though. I've been saying for about that long that the Golden Age of Broadcast Television is coming to an end. Seriously, we will have to supplement from somewhere. The...

If I remember, I'll let you know how my Amazon.com delivery goes on Friday. My delivery qualified for "enhanced" service, where they set up the television and test it before leaving, to make sure it hasn't been damaged in transit. With regard to why not buy locally.... the main reason for...

I recall reading some reports that some replacement bulbs were produced that didn't actually fit properly, and that could cause issues. No idea if this could be what you're experiencing.

I never found Leno funny. I think he should never have been given the Tonight show because of that. Heck, I never thought Johnny Carson was funny either. I suspect that these people appeal to certain audiences, and it is those people who need to find them funny, not us.

"Might have..." While satisfying to think so, the ratings for the show were so poor that no amount of clamor from the small number of us who were fans of the show would probably have amounted to much. It seems that every so often the networks give fan response a chance to justify a renewal...

I'm sure that when it really gets out of hand, i.e., begins adversely affecting revenues, they'll reel it back in. They're typically pretty good about detecting and reacting to lost revenues.

I suspect we Americans will have a DVD set made available to us.

If NBC was being honest about what they needed, pulling a 1.7 versus that competition is a big win for them and not bad for their affiliate news shows. I know that that is going to go down like cod liver oil for the folks who were hoping and praying for justification for their condemnations of...

Quote: I disagree. In my experience, including twenty years effectively comparing consumers' opinions about what is best for a business versus the business' opinions about what is best for the business, I can say with confidence that the percentage of times that the consumers were right and...

I don't agree, though, that blatant and unchecked consumerism is necessarily a good thing. No perspective ever deserves an unrebutted soap-box. Such destructive constructs inextricably lead to some folks getting the idea that such a one-sided perspective should actually prevail. It justifies...

Quote: Hehe... well that's one of those, "It's nice that people are different," things. I grant that there are a lot of people who like this "anniversary" stuff, and so they provide more than enough demand for the studios to provide it, but that doesn't mean I like all this emphasis on what I...

It is strange to see you write that given that my comments directly mirrored your own, just with a different, indeterminate set of people as the target. You have a double-standard: The people you want to insult, it is okay to insult them, but the people you like, it isn't okay to insult them...

* People posting online act like idiots an order of magnitude or two more often than large companies.

Age of viewers is definitely part of what is reported. Then advertisers can use that information as they see fit, based on who they believe their advertisements will prompt to buy their products and services. In the end, do keep in mind that ratings are falling, precipitously, overall...

I think it is ridiculous to assume that NBC hasn't though of all the implications and possibilities that we viewers bandy about online. They're not idiots, despite some of the self-serving but essentially baseless protestations to the contrary.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ic1a340c9e2d852e5c71c767e50baa19c You can quibble about it, but money is money. Even if that number is inflated, there is still enough money to be made to make this change worthwhile to NBC. But not because it is a lot of...

CBS made the same mistake with Medium, clearly shown by their taking the show as sloppy seconds when NBC released their hold on it.

My understanding is that CTV broadcast just one more episode, and then moved the series to Space TV. Is that not the case?

Quote: Yes, you can be. Fox arguably is/does, at least if you're just counting scripted programming. CBS might have comparable audience to Fox, but they spend far more to accomplish that feat. It's good thing, for CBS' execs, that the company is far more closely-held.

Hindsight is always 20/20 of course, but I'm surprised I didn't "know" this was going to happen in advance. Maybe I'm simply so hopeful that Heroes will survive, do well, excel, etc., that I didn't really look at it objectively: Against House, Heroes is doomed, I think. I hope they give us a...

A few notes. You're mostly on target. There is no question that advertisers are major customers of the networks. As time goes on, though, more and more of the money going into networks should be coming from service providers, satellite and cable, through retransmission fees, and so they...

I think it is really critical to understand that there is a business, and then there is an artistic discipline. The artistic discipline often "rides on top of" the business, but it is really important to remember that the business doesn't service the artistic discipline, but rather the other...

Quote: It wasn't meant, in any way, as a personal insult. This is really a critical point at this juncture of the discussion, and I'm sorry it wasn't clearer: The assertion I was replying to was no longer about Leno, but rather essentially was that a viewer's perspective was right, and that...

I think you're really engaging in a lot of mental masturbation. I am sure you find it great fun to put yourself forward as smarter than an entire industry of professional experts with experience and credentials. It's also pretty-much devoid of merit.

And to be clear, generating just "the revenue needed to keep the shows in production" is inadequate. Every dollar spent producing a television program and presenting it to the public competes with every other possible use for that dollar, including just investing in the stock market. (Note that...

Quote: Incorrect. It is the industry's job to make profit for their owners. Quote: Do you actually employ them and control whether they have jobs? Rather, I think you're projecting your wishful thinking onto reality. Just leave reality alone. It's okay as it is, and distorting it into...

My favorite breakfast is my wife's homemade granola mixed with Greek yoghurt.

Don't blame the studios. They're just doing what their customers reward them most for doing.

Random bit of useless knowledge: Humans are the only mammals that drink milk after being weaned (despite all the mythos behind cats drinking milk, etc... that doesn't happen in nature). Indeed, many humans simply cannot properly metabolize milk (not even human mothers' milk) after being...

Quote: It is true that Adam and I agree about this, but your interpretation was out of context. Put it back into context, i.e. a comparison to the effect of popularity. That's what matters. Popularity for popularity's sake is vacuous. And there is nothing about popularity of something on a...