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CBS, NBC not laughing about MONDAY, THURSDAY

gregg75

gregg75

Appears 2 BROKE GIRLS was never as popular as everyone thought it was. CBS has shuffled the schedule (and the bleeding may have stopped).......but their 10PM drama......whatever it is......continues to dissapoint.

NBC put a lot into a NEW thursday night, but few are watching.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/71422/cbs-nbc-not-laughing-at-comedy-nights

Yes, I'm back.......where have I been......check the Dance page if you wanna find out.
 
Not surprised about 2 Broke Girls - I think it's awful - Cat Denning in particular, who I liked in the films I've seen her in. In the sitcom, her acting is stilted, and very strange. Nobody I've ever met talks like that. It's the comedy version of Jon Lovitz's "Master Thespian" character from SNL...for those old enough to remember.

Even when I don't like a particular show (Mike & Molly, for example), I can at least understand the appeal it has to people who like it. Not so with Broke.
 
gregg75 said:
Appears 2 BROKE GIRLS was never as popular as everyone thought it was. CBS has shuffled the schedule (and the bleeding may have stopped).......but their 10PM drama......whatever it is......continues to dissapoint.

NBC put a lot into a NEW thursday night, but few are watching.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/71422/cbs-nbc-not-laughing-at-comedy-nights

Yes, I'm back.......where have I been......check the Dance page if you wanna find out.
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I think "2 Broke Girls" is hilarious, but I can't stand Oleg or Sophie. I liked Kat in the show she did with Bob Saget and discovered she was the girl I liked so much in several movies.

Normally I hate such raunchy humor, but coming from her and from Caroline, who is so adorable, it works for me.

I especially like how they mistreat Han and he just continues to take it. His admitting he considered the girls friends makes that concept even better.
 
NBC's choices were train wrecks in the making. Sean Hayes playing another gay character? Simply thinking that bringing Michael J. Fox back to TV would guarantee viewers? Seriously, NBC is lacking any semblence of competent creative development. As for CBS, they stretched it too thin. M&M should've opened the schedule, they should've left H50 in place and kept Vegas or Goldenboy for Fridays.
 
The only NBC programs I watch is Law & Order SVU ,Chicago Fire ,Sunday Night Football(only if the New York Giants are playing)and (as of last Wednesday) Ironside. IMO Fox has better quality programs, I don't watch CBS or ABC at all this season.
 
The truth is Pro Football has become so huge that just about every week, ESPN's "NFL Monday Night Football" has won the time periods from 8:30 P.M. EDT/EST onward, in both overall viewers and key demographics.

Although the league-owned NFL Network is in far fewer homes than ESPN, it's "NFL Thursday Night Football" often finishes a strong second in its time period in overall viewers and/or key demographics.

Were the NFL Network to be in as many homes as ESPN, "Thursday Night Football" might well be winning it's time period in overall viewers and key demos. And given that Thursday is the most important night of the prime-time week (thanks to all that money movie studios spend on Thursday-night TV advertising to promote films opening the next day), this has become a crisis for the broadcast networks.

The bottom line is that from September through early January (counting college bowl games), the broadcast networks have tough competition from football on Monday and Thursday nights, and they're losing.

Trying "women-oriented" shows against the NFL won't work very well anymore because the number of female football fans is rapidly growing.

Gone are the days when the great majority of football fans were men and there were millions of "Weekend Widows".
 
I think ESPN should take the rights to Thursday Night Football soon. More homes, more viewers. For most TNF games, because NFL Net. is on digital cable (and we only get basic cable here in Marysville), I have to listen to KJR-950 on the radio for the coverage, provided by Westwood One.
 
<<<<I think ESPN should take the rights to Thursday Night Football soon.>>>>

Not gonna happen. ESPN doesnt take rights, they have to buy them. And I suspect the entire ESPN house of cards might collapse if they tried to thrust another subscriber fee increase. $5-6 a month is tolerable, but once it starts being $9-10, cable systems are going to start stripping out sports channels altogether for the 75% of viewers who care nothing or minimally about sports. $500M from 100M households works. $250M from 25M households won't.

If anything, more games will migrate to NFL Network. It's owned by the league and they want carriage on all cable systems. By placing more games on NFL Network, they drive the demand for the channel
 
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