Missing the Paigow (et al.) [sniff]

[andViolins]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I will channel her for you:

My Seahawks won! Yaaaaaaaay!

TM

I just got chills.

That was really creepy.

aV

[Alex_de_Large]

81?!?!?!?! Yikes. It's enough to make me want to wear tights to work.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I never got into the west wing. but i've never understood every network's insistence on burying popular, good shows on different nights from the ones on which they became hits. I can understand the occasional lineup shuffle, but the regular switcheroos are beyond me.

perhaps str8 can set us str8? After explaining how he's already filling out the financial aid apps for yale after teasing Carolina and Denver.

Didn't bet this weekend. I'm on the wagon.

I think the rationale is something like "we've already got 20 million people watching our shows on Wednesday night. If we move a show with loyal viewers, all those people will keep watching Wednesday night, because they're just used to watching OUR network Wedensday night, and they'll keep watching their favorite show on SUNDAY night.

I think this is stupid reasoning. I think a good reason for moving shows would be like if you've got a good sitcom that's not doing well on one night, and there's another night where nobody else has sitcoms, and your research tells you that a portion of the audience wants to watch a sitcom on that night . . . kind of like going with the Righty/Lefty matchup?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
81?!?!?!?! Yikes. It's enough to make me want to wear tights to work.

I had to shut it off when he had 59 with 9 minutes left. He must have had a pretty good last 9 minutes.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

I think the rationale is something like "we've already got 20 million people watching our shows on Wednesday night. If we move a show with loyal viewers, all those people will keep watching Wednesday night, because they're just used to watching OUR network Wedensday night, and they'll keep watching their favorite show on SUNDAY night.

I think this is stupid reasoning.

It seems like more often than not those 20 million loyal viewers turn out to be 10 million loyal viewers and 10 million couch potatos. And the 10 million loyal viewers move to the new night, except that some of them decide not to bother, so it's 8 million, and then the show is cancelled for lack of interest.

Although I guess getting cancelled that way is better than getting cancelled after one show--Emily's Reasons Why Not to Watch, indeed.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It seems like more often than not those 20 million loyal viewers turn out to be 10 million loyal viewers and 10 million couch potatos. And the 10 million loyal viewers move to the new night, except that some of them decide not to bother, so it's 8 million, and then the show is cancelled for lack of interest.

Although I guess getting cancelled that way is better than getting cancelled after one show--Emily's Reasons Why Not to Watch, indeed.

You should have seen the advertising blitz for that show in LA. Billboards, buses, bus stops, etc. all plastered with Heather Graham's face. You'd think with all the cash spent on promotion, they would have held on until show #3 to cancel it.

[ABBAKiss]

Does anyone still have this letter? I want to read it again.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You should have seen ............. buses, bus stops, etc

have you ever met Peter Thottam or Juan the Marine?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You should have seen the advertising blitz for that show in LA. Billboards, buses, bus stops, etc. all plastered with Heather Graham's face. You'd think with all the cash spent on promotion, they would have held on until show #3 to cancel it.

All that Heather Graham gaping like an idiot, and they've CANCELLED it already?!?!?!?! I hope they at least take down the existing advertising now that the show won't be on.

But they probably won't.

Saw Casanova over the weekend -- pretty costumes and sets, but stupider than I anticipated and, I thought, too much shooting against a blue screen and then superimposing on background, or whatever that is. Yeah, the technology is better than it was in the olden days, but it's not seamless and it's distracting.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You should have seen the advertising blitz for that show in LA. Billboards, buses, bus stops, etc. all plastered with Heather Graham's face. You'd think with all the cash spent on promotion, they would have held on until show #3 to cancel it.

Yeah, but it was all on the Westside. I've been able to salivate over 40 ft. tall representations of Heather Graham several times a day during my commute, but apparently noone in America east of Sunset knew the fucking show existed.







etfix geography

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You should have seen the advertising blitz for that show in LA. Billboards, buses, bus stops, etc. all plastered with Heather Graham's face. You'd think with all the cash spent on promotion, they would have held on until show #3 to cancel it.

From what I read, they hadn't seen the pilot when they decided to do the ad blitz.

Oops.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It seems like more often than not those 20 million loyal viewers turn out to be 10 million loyal viewers and 10 million couch potatos. And the 10 million loyal viewers move to the new night, except that some of them decide not to bother, so it's 8 million, and then the show is cancelled for lack of interest.

Although I guess getting cancelled that way is better than getting cancelled after one show--Emily's Reasons Why Not to Watch, indeed.

I didn't even know the WW was still on the air until that fellow who played an advisor on it died of a heart attack a few weeks back... I can't stomach any post "Wall St." Martin Sheen.

How is that Geena Davis as President show surviving? That just looks awful...

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Yeah, but it was all on the Westside. I've been able to salivate over 40 ft. tall representations of Heather Graham several times a day during my commute, but apparently noone in America west of Sunset knew the fucking show existed.

(a) Sunset runs E-W, yes? maybe it is N-S somewhere that I don't encounter it. So you mean west of the end of it where it hits the Pacific?

(b) Why so concerned about what Hawaii knows? Is that a big market?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
(a) Sunset runs E-W, yes? maybe it is N-S somewhere that I don't encounter it. So you mean west of the end of it where it hits the Pacific?

My bad. East of Sunset.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
All that Heather Graham gaping like an idiot, and they've CANCELLED it already?!?!?!?! I hope they at least take down the existing advertising now that the show won't be on.

But they probably won't.

Saw Casanova over the weekend -- pretty costumes and sets, but stupider than I anticipated and, I thought, too much shooting against a blue screen and then superimposing on background, or whatever that is. Yeah, the technology is better than it was in the olden days, but it's not seamless and it's distracting.

I rented Lord of War. I was apprehensive about it, since Cage has shit the bed a good bit lately. But I was pleasantly surprised. Not the thriller it claims to be, but very entertaining.

The Constant Gardener is perfectly named, because thats what it felt like I was watching. Well shot, well crafted and incredibly dull. If Merchant and Ivory had done an action flick, this would have been it. Fiennes has the charisma of mud and the script moves like molasses. I want my two hours back.