Does anyone know why TV Land is so restricted in the number of series that they show? There are so many great series, It Takes a Thief, NYPD, Mod Squad, Kojak, Hart To Hart, Streets of San Fransisco, and dozens of others, but TVLand never shows them. Is it a thing about copyright. It is like they play the same 7 titles over and over and over. Anyone out there know?
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TV Land in the past year has done the same thing that Nick at Nite has done and still does and that is to show every episode of Roseanne and show the whole nine seasons in a month. They do the same with The Cosby Show, Married With Children, etc.
Bad enough that Nick at Nite has started running shows from the 2000's (Malcolm In The Middle, George Lopez, Everybody Loves Chris), but local stations also carry George Lopez and Everybody Loves Chris and sometimes the same episodes that Nick at Nite carries later that night.
TV Land used to show some of the shows you mentioned but it seems that they like the 1990's and 2000's shows better.
Bad enough that Nick at Nite has started running shows from the 2000's (Malcolm In The Middle, George Lopez, Everybody Loves Chris), but local stations also carry George Lopez and Everybody Loves Chris and sometimes the same episodes that Nick at Nite carries later that night.
TV Land used to show some of the shows you mentioned but it seems that they like the 1990's and 2000's shows better.
Retro Television Network (RTN) has the rights to several of those shows and I have watched it when I was Knoxville on several occassions. The problem is that several of the shows I've seen (It Takes a Thief, Kojak, Emergency, Adam-12, Quincy, etc.) aren't nearly as good as I remember them being. Also, most hour long series (Westerns, Dramas, Crime and Police Dramas, Variety Shows) don't do as well in syndication as sitcoms and 30 minute programs do.FRR said:
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searadiofreak
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Programming note: Tonight on TVLand IMO one of the funniest All In The Family episodes ever, "The Bunkers and the swingers"
FRR said:
It depends on where you live. RTV is carried on the digital subchannels of several over-the-air stations across the country.
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The Dude said:
Whatever...to each his own. I thought it was very funny, as well as the "Class Reunion" episode shown tonight. Bigger picture, this show was funny 90% of the time during the first 3-4 seasons. The later years seemed to drop off, until it became "Archie's Place", which was just awful.
There are no bad episodes of All In The family for the first four seasons. The show jumped the shark after the Jeffersons moved on up and Mike & Gloria moved to California. Then the show lost its fire.
therealjm12 said:
That seemed to be the pattern for most, if not all of Norman Lear's shows. His shows were funny the first few seasons..then it all went downhill. This happened with Good Times, Maude and One Day at a Time. Sanford & Son, wasn't much a fan of that show so I can't say if it was the case there. Meanwhile The Jeffersons had a bit more staying power but even there the last few seasons weren't much like that one unfunny episode during its later years where George Jefferson & Tom Willis were male strippers.
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Like every other pre-programmed robot with a marketing degree who works in network programming, the people at TV Land
are targeting the 18-45 female demographic just like the charts and graphs from their sophomore year research project taught
them. Therefore any shows I enjoy don't make the cut due to gender (and, increasingly, due to age). This is particularly
frustrating here in Pittsburgh where our demographics skew 2nd. oldest in the country (after Florida) which means that increasingly
programmers are focusing their attention on a market segment that isn't there.
are targeting the 18-45 female demographic just like the charts and graphs from their sophomore year research project taught
them. Therefore any shows I enjoy don't make the cut due to gender (and, increasingly, due to age). This is particularly
frustrating here in Pittsburgh where our demographics skew 2nd. oldest in the country (after Florida) which means that increasingly
programmers are focusing their attention on a market segment that isn't there.
I think the 1972/73 season (Season 3) was by far the best season of All In The Family, with every episode being a classic, IMHO. My two favorite episodes from that season were shown on TVLand on Wednesday night, back -to-back, the one where the Swastika was painted on the Bunkers' front door and the one where Archie and Mike have two totally different verisons of the same story, where Archie claims it was a big switch blade while Mike claims there was no knife. From the sixth season on (1975/76), AITF started to loose it steam, with more and more dud episodes each season.therealjm12 said:
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FreddyE1977 said:
How is a national network supposed to program to an individual market? (And the fact that a market skews older clearly does not mean a younger segment doesn't exist; pretending it does is ignoring reality.)
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