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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 23, 2016 16:20:51 GMT -5
It sounds like bad bosses everywhere. You've got something that's working pretty well. It's not making a fortune but it pays its own way. In baseball terms its a solid single. But no, you have to try for the home run. Forget about the fact that there are 50 strike outs for every home run.
There are a lot of companies out there that have gone out of business either because they refused to change or because the change so much, so often, the people just give up. It's like a restaurant that changes it menu every couple of months because the owners want to make a million dollars a year, right now. As soon as you start making money from the regulars, you change the menu because their not making enough. Then you have to get a new bunch of regulars who like the new menu. Then change it again. After a while, people stop coming back.
I'm not surprised he only dealt with misties who disliked him. He's not the misty type of person and he wasn't afraid to say it. If I stood up and publicly said that someone is ugly and stupid and other deliberate insults over and over again, why would I expect their family and friends to like me? He's the type person who would punch someone in the face and be totally shocked when they punched him back. He would never understand why this person is so hostile to him. I've met people like that and they are difficult to deal with.
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Post by gorncaptain on Jan 24, 2016 17:34:05 GMT -5
What's sad is the likes of Doug and Bonnie probably get a golden parachute just to leave a network they've run into the ground, and then land on their feet at another one. Everything they touch, they destroy.
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Post by Cubey on Jan 30, 2016 22:01:13 GMT -5
The thing to remember is any TV show is dispensable, no matter how good it may or may not be. Something else, good or bad, will come along to replace it. Otherwise a lot of wonderful 1950s TVs shows would have never been canceled, or at least wouldn't have been canceled until the leading actors died.
It's part of the throwaway culture we live in and have had since at least the 1980s, if not the 1960s to some extent. Electronics, clothes, automobiles, TV shows, celebrities... it's the ADD society that has a 6 month memory (at best) for everything.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 2, 2016 14:43:55 GMT -5
TV shows are dispensable but the way they're running it now is self defeating. I rate shows as Must Watch, Ok, Tolerable, and Bad. I turn the tv on to watch the Must Watch shows and while its on I'll watch an Ok show if it comes on and maybe even a Tolerable show if I'm too lazy to get up. If there aren't any Must Watch shows on I don't even bother to turn on the TV. As of now there are three things on TV that I rate as much watch, some sports, Better Call Saul and Agent Carter. I go weeks without turning on the TV if none of these shows are on. The problem for TV networks is that the high rated shows are rarely in the Must Watch category for most people. They're generally in the Ok or Tolerable categories. The Must Watch shows have lower ratings but they are very important for a small percentage of people. Once these people watch the network for their Must Watch shows they may stick around to watch other shows thereby boosting their ratings. For example, when MST3k was on the Sci Fi channel, I would sometimes watch other shows on the network. Since it has gone off the air I just skip by it when channel surfing because the chance of finding something I want to watch is so low even though I read science fiction on an almost daily basis. I watched a show called Lost Girl on netflix recently. It would put it in the OK category. I was wondering what channel it was on and found out that it was on the sci fi channel for 5 years and I never heard about it. If there was still a Must See show on the sci fi channel I might have found the show earlier and watched it. Eliminating the Must Watch shows in favor of higher rated Ok and Tolerable shows leads to younger viewers getting out of the habit of watching TV. It's not like in the 1950's where the competing entertainment options were things like reading, sewing, or things that required someone else to do like card games or sex (we'll strictly speaking it doesn't require a partner but three or four hours a night every night doesn't interest me that much anymore. I guess I'm getting old. )
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Post by gorncaptain on Feb 2, 2016 16:58:06 GMT -5
Some shows enjoyed long lucrative runs back then, especially westerns. Gunsmoke ran for two decades, 1955-1975. Bonanza ran 14 years. The Beverly Hillbillies and it's sister shows were still riding high in the ratings, when CBS decided to rid itself of it's "hayseed" image, and cancelled them all. If your show ends up on network honcho's hit list, the ratings aren't going to matter either way.
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Post by GodoHell on Feb 3, 2016 1:52:14 GMT -5
Well, after reading this, I'm going to buy a dart board just so I can paste that face onto it.
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