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IN LIVING COLOR RERUNS on Network TV
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My is going down the ion route
I imagine by the end of the year MY NETWORK TV will become history and the affiliates will take over with reruns of popular shows, court shows, talk shows, etc.
I was reading in a book called How Fox Broke the Rules and Became the Fourth Network, that re-running In Living Color was a source of conflict for the network. This was of course before they had football and all the VHF stations.
I'm surprised they don't run some Aussie shows on it. Or Canadian or British shows on it. I would love to see my old favourite Aussie soap Prisoner Cell Block H
I always wondered why there was so little programs from other countries on American TV. I don't think I've ever seen a Canadian Sitcom (the closest I think was You can't do that on television) on Nick
I'm surprised they don't run some Aussie shows on it. Or Canadian or British shows on it. I would love to see my old favourite Aussie soap Prisoner Cell Block H
I always wondered why there was so little programs from other countries on American TV. I don't think I've ever seen a Canadian Sitcom (the closest I think was You can't do that on television) on Nick
I just loved how Fox just suddenly bang-bang replaced the disasterous Chevy Chase Show with reruns of In Living Color. No public announcement or anything. It must be their "go-to" show when things go wrong over at News Corp.
The Chevy Chase Show crash-burned after just six weeks. I remember what then-Fox Programming chief Lucie Salhanie said when the plug was pulled: "It was a good idea that didn't work." ???
Funny, I would have sworn that good ideas always work. Shows what I know.
After one disasterous year as head of Programming at UPN (she helped launch the network), she retired to New England.
I think though, that the Chevy Chase Show is a big reason that Lucie Salhanie is not employed in television anymore. She's had a hard time living that one down.
The Chevy Chase Show crash-burned after just six weeks. I remember what then-Fox Programming chief Lucie Salhanie said when the plug was pulled: "It was a good idea that didn't work." ???
Funny, I would have sworn that good ideas always work. Shows what I know.
After one disasterous year as head of Programming at UPN (she helped launch the network), she retired to New England.
I think though, that the Chevy Chase Show is a big reason that Lucie Salhanie is not employed in television anymore. She's had a hard time living that one down.
I'm going to disagree with you all and predict that this time next year, MyNetwork TV will have REAL ratings. Getting WWE is a good start, and rerunning InLivingColor is a good idea. Its a TV classic, and the current setup at MAD TV is just not as good.
Lets give this thing a chance before we call it dead. Everyone predicted CW would doing well, and look at that?
Lets give this thing a chance before we call it dead. Everyone predicted CW would doing well, and look at that?
Mark said:
The only Canadian sitcoms that ever aired on American TV were "Hangin' In" (late-1980s), "The King of Kensington" (1977-1978, and again in the mid-1980s) and "Corner Gas" (on Superstation WGN, right now).
Very few of you know about "The Trouble With Tracy", a 1970 CTV sitcom that's set in New York City and taped in Toronto. And maybe it's best that you didn't know (other than it was never seen in the US).
Mark said:
As far as Canada goes back in the 70's some of their shows were seen in a few markets like the King of Kennsington ( seen on Washington DC's WTTG ) which was already pointed out plus there were a few other types of Canadian programs that made it to American airwaves like that infamous Alex Trebek game show Pitfall ( I think that was the last game show he did before he started hosting Jeopardy ). Did CBS use some CTV cop show as part of their night time line up at one time?
But you are right. Canadian TV seen on American TV is a rare sight other than Red Green.
bk77 said:
The cop show you're thinking of was called Night Heat, which aired late nights following your local news years before they put David Letterman in that time slot. If I hadn't stored away my copy of Total Television, I'd tell you the years it ran on CBS.
Maybe Night Heat, IMHO, wasn't a great show, but I'd call it pretty darn good. If DVDs of it were available, I'd buy.
Oh, how different things might be if UPN had picked up American Idol.
Coming soon to MyNetworkTV.... "Captain Video and His Video Rangers." followed by Bishop Sheen's "Life Is Worth Living."
Which, come to think of it, would be an improvement over anything it has now.
Which, come to think of it, would be an improvement over anything it has now.
landtuna said:
I have to google the articles, but people were claiming that CW would be a success because they would be taking the most watched shows from both networks. I think that was the so-called "appeal" of the whole merger. In reality, it was more like neither one could exist otherwise. And you're right, it didn't work out that way.
All I am saying is, we can't predict what will happen a year from now. I think CW is turning into WB Part II, and MyNetworkTV is starting to look a lot like the Fox version of UPN (probably because they have so many former UPN affiliates). The question is, will Fox be better at running a baby network than CBS was?
azumanga said:
You forgot about Learning the Ropes, which aired in U.S. syndication for one season (1988-89). This sitcom starred the late former NFL player Lyle Alzado as a high-school teacher who moonlighted as a professional wrestler. It got my attention because his daughter was played by "Stephanie Kaye" from the first two seasons of Degrassi Junior High.
Other than cameo appearances from the Road Warriors, Sting, Ric Flair, and other NWA/WCW wrestlers of that era, there isn't much memorable about this show -- except that it was the last time we saw Alzado before his untimely death made him one of the first poster children for performance-enhancing drug abuse.
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Not to mention, hasn't MNTV's ratings gone up a bit since -- at least on the days -- they run movies?Garrett said:
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