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The Other Side of 2012
Apr. 19th, 2012 01:02 amNFL Season.
The regular season schedule came out this week, so tonight I went to Yahoo!Sports to make a quick survey as to who plays who when. It's tough to be a fan of one or two teams when you don't live in the home city. I'm a fan of the Steelers in the AFC and of the Buccaneers in the NFC (granted to mundane levels); east Tennessee TV is going to concentrate its efforts on two AFC teams in particular (the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos--the latter because of favorite son quarterback Peyton Manning, who was traded there from the Indianapolis Colts a few weeks ago) and two NFC teams because of the national marketing (the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers). CBS carries most of the AFC games and FOX carries most of the NFC ones; NBC, ESPN and the NFL Network carry the rest of the regular season games. The Steelers have three NBC showings this year, one ESPN one and their NFL Network game is against--the Titans. The Bucs, OTOH, have just the one NFL Network game against the Vikings.
What's weird is that the Titans DO NOT play the Broncos, the Falcons OR the Panthers in the regular season at all in 2012. Granted, with 32 teams and only 17 weeks in the schedule (and everybody getting a bye week) it's bound to happen every so often. But that means since there are no showdowns there are no synergistic instances when a Sunday timeslot will open up for CBS or FOX to program a game that has nothing to do with any of the Gang of Four.
I'll need to look at the schedule again as if I work for the local CBS and FOX affiliates.
The regular season schedule came out this week, so tonight I went to Yahoo!Sports to make a quick survey as to who plays who when. It's tough to be a fan of one or two teams when you don't live in the home city. I'm a fan of the Steelers in the AFC and of the Buccaneers in the NFC (granted to mundane levels); east Tennessee TV is going to concentrate its efforts on two AFC teams in particular (the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos--the latter because of favorite son quarterback Peyton Manning, who was traded there from the Indianapolis Colts a few weeks ago) and two NFC teams because of the national marketing (the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers). CBS carries most of the AFC games and FOX carries most of the NFC ones; NBC, ESPN and the NFL Network carry the rest of the regular season games. The Steelers have three NBC showings this year, one ESPN one and their NFL Network game is against--the Titans. The Bucs, OTOH, have just the one NFL Network game against the Vikings.
What's weird is that the Titans DO NOT play the Broncos, the Falcons OR the Panthers in the regular season at all in 2012. Granted, with 32 teams and only 17 weeks in the schedule (and everybody getting a bye week) it's bound to happen every so often. But that means since there are no showdowns there are no synergistic instances when a Sunday timeslot will open up for CBS or FOX to program a game that has nothing to do with any of the Gang of Four.
I'll need to look at the schedule again as if I work for the local CBS and FOX affiliates.
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Writer's Block: Critical Acclaim
Apr. 2nd, 2012 04:51 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I loved a LOT of One-Season Wonders. The most recent being the Americanized LIFE ON MARS. ABC just kept screwing around once it premiered, messing with the time-slot and keeping it off air when it was building an audience. I wish it had been given further seasons and a chance to live up to its potential. I suppose I'll have to eventually get the British version and its sequel on DVD to figure out where it was actually headed.
PS: I decided to do a quick survey of one-season wonders of my lifetime. I've only made it through most of the Seventies and Eighties when I was watching much more television than I do now.
One-Season Wonders:
ABC: 240-Robert, The Associates, Best of the West, Blue Thunder, Breaking Away, Call To Glory, The Insiders, Masquerade, Masters of Science Fiction, Max Headroom, Operation Petticoat, The Phoenix, Renegades, Salvage, Strike Force, When The Whistle Blows, When Things Were Rotten
CBS: Bring 'Em Back Alive, California Fever, Concrete Cowboys, The Flash, Frank's Place, Mr. Merlin, Otherworld, Q.E.D., Spencer's Pilots, Square Pegs, Whiz Kids
NBC: Amazing Stories, Games People Play, Mike Nesmith in Television Parts, Misfits Of Science, Project UFO, Sword of Justice, Voyagers
FOX: Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Space: Above & Beyond
I loved a LOT of One-Season Wonders. The most recent being the Americanized LIFE ON MARS. ABC just kept screwing around once it premiered, messing with the time-slot and keeping it off air when it was building an audience. I wish it had been given further seasons and a chance to live up to its potential. I suppose I'll have to eventually get the British version and its sequel on DVD to figure out where it was actually headed.
PS: I decided to do a quick survey of one-season wonders of my lifetime. I've only made it through most of the Seventies and Eighties when I was watching much more television than I do now.
One-Season Wonders:
ABC: 240-Robert, The Associates, Best of the West, Blue Thunder, Breaking Away, Call To Glory, The Insiders, Masquerade, Masters of Science Fiction, Max Headroom, Operation Petticoat, The Phoenix, Renegades, Salvage, Strike Force, When The Whistle Blows, When Things Were Rotten
CBS: Bring 'Em Back Alive, California Fever, Concrete Cowboys, The Flash, Frank's Place, Mr. Merlin, Otherworld, Q.E.D., Spencer's Pilots, Square Pegs, Whiz Kids
NBC: Amazing Stories, Games People Play, Mike Nesmith in Television Parts, Misfits Of Science, Project UFO, Sword of Justice, Voyagers
FOX: Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Space: Above & Beyond
On The Fall TV Premieres So Far
Sep. 22nd, 2011 10:55 pmCRIMINAL MINDS
I don't know if any of my readers are as big of fans of the series as I am, but just in case you are and you haven't seen the first episode yet...
( Spoilers Behind This )
PERSON OF INTEREST
ALIAS meets Early Edition, with a good measure of Burn Notice thrown in (John Reese is basically a clone of Michael of Burn Notice--a former spy gone rogue). It's going to have to work to get an audience but I think it deserves one. The premiere episode had plenty of topspin. And since it's set in that Big Apple, I imagine a crossover with Bluebloods or CSI: New York might happen one of these seasons.
I don't know if any of my readers are as big of fans of the series as I am, but just in case you are and you haven't seen the first episode yet...
( Spoilers Behind This )PERSON OF INTEREST
ALIAS meets Early Edition, with a good measure of Burn Notice thrown in (John Reese is basically a clone of Michael of Burn Notice--a former spy gone rogue). It's going to have to work to get an audience but I think it deserves one. The premiere episode had plenty of topspin. And since it's set in that Big Apple, I imagine a crossover with Bluebloods or CSI: New York might happen one of these seasons.
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Wednesday Night Weirdness
Jan. 21st, 2011 01:40 pm( Posted Here Because It Times Out Or Glitches When I Try To Watch It At CBS.Com ).PS: When I attempted to establish a CBS.COM account using my Facebook ID, I found out that I already had an account with there, and revived it. Unfortunately, I can't link to it, but if you want to friend me there just look for sbierce@hotmail.com in the Friend Search function.
Wait A Minute--What Was THAT?
Jun. 14th, 2010 02:54 pmWas looking through old letters on my hard drive and found one from ten years ago with a list of the family's TV habits. There was one show I didn't recognize right away--THIS ONE. Again with the one-season wonders. Still, it's a shame Heather Paige Kent hasn't seen much success in the years since. Already Mum and I are thinking of roles we'd cast her in if Mum's books were made into live-action movies.
Plastic People
May. 24th, 2010 12:46 pmA study in juxtaposition...a rumor I saw on USENET this weekend brought me to THESE PEOPLE, whom I realize built a very large portion of my childhood. I didn't realize how brand-loyal I was back then.
The antithesis: THIS STORY from CBS' 60 Minutes about possibly harmful chemicals in plastics. Now, I consider myself very atypical, and substandard, as a male human being in terms of physicality and psyche. Up to now I blamed my problems on the general environment in which I grew up: I'm a child of the Rust Belt, born right next to one of the most polluted bodies of water in North America at that time, with Love Canal to the east and Cleveland (whose river caught fire!) to the west.
But what about my toys and my indoor environment?
Who do I really have to blame but myself? Maybe everyone. Maybe no one. Unintended consequences.
The antithesis: THIS STORY from CBS' 60 Minutes about possibly harmful chemicals in plastics. Now, I consider myself very atypical, and substandard, as a male human being in terms of physicality and psyche. Up to now I blamed my problems on the general environment in which I grew up: I'm a child of the Rust Belt, born right next to one of the most polluted bodies of water in North America at that time, with Love Canal to the east and Cleveland (whose river caught fire!) to the west.
But what about my toys and my indoor environment?
Who do I really have to blame but myself? Maybe everyone. Maybe no one. Unintended consequences.
CBS Announces The Cancellation of Seven Prime-Time Shows including Numb3rs.
Granted, the show ended with the high note of Charlie marrying his long-time lover Amita and taking a new assignment at Oxford, but I will really miss its presense. Rob Morrow is moving on to ABC's The Whole Truth, which looks to have a lot of topspin. David Krumholtz' follow-up Tax Man wasn't picked up by FOX, but I imagine FOX will keep it handy as a possible replacement, the risks being what they are these days. The others in the cast are already showing up in guest roles in other series, so the news isn't so bad...but I'll miss Numb3rs.
Meanwhile, I hear that The Big Bang Theory was picked up for syndication, so it'll run "daily" re-runs in addition to its weekly CBS prime-time slot. I'm not a fan myself, but I know a lot of people who are. (My prime-time of choice now is CHUCK and Criminal Minds.)
Granted, the show ended with the high note of Charlie marrying his long-time lover Amita and taking a new assignment at Oxford, but I will really miss its presense. Rob Morrow is moving on to ABC's The Whole Truth, which looks to have a lot of topspin. David Krumholtz' follow-up Tax Man wasn't picked up by FOX, but I imagine FOX will keep it handy as a possible replacement, the risks being what they are these days. The others in the cast are already showing up in guest roles in other series, so the news isn't so bad...but I'll miss Numb3rs.
Meanwhile, I hear that The Big Bang Theory was picked up for syndication, so it'll run "daily" re-runs in addition to its weekly CBS prime-time slot. I'm not a fan myself, but I know a lot of people who are. (My prime-time of choice now is CHUCK and Criminal Minds.)
And That Is The Way It Used To Be
Jul. 17th, 2009 09:26 pmWalter Cronkite Has Died.
Our family watched his CBS Evening News programs from 1974 to his retirement at the very least. (I would imagine the viewing habit may have started earlier, but I remember we were more into ABC when we were in Ohio circa 1971~'74.) He didn't just present the news to us, he practically was the face of news to us.
Our family watched his CBS Evening News programs from 1974 to his retirement at the very least. (I would imagine the viewing habit may have started earlier, but I remember we were more into ABC when we were in Ohio circa 1971~'74.) He didn't just present the news to us, he practically was the face of news to us.
I Watched Too Much TV
Feb. 23rd, 2009 04:14 pmOvernight I was flipping stations following the NASCAR race from Fontana, and the RTN was showing an episode of Simon & Simon...and it turned out that it was one of the crossover episodes with Whiz Kids. That show was a one-season wonder, about a teenage computer nerd and his clique of friends who were an amateur detective team. They were mentored by a newspaper investigative reporter played by Max Gail (previously of Barney Miller). The nerd was played by Matthew Laborteaux, whose brother was later one of the leads on JAG.
Matthew was born within a week of my own birth...and also has done voice acting for animated cartoons (which has been a dream job of mine but I feel I could probably never actually do).
Mentioning this stuff to my mother and she replies...
MUM: You could have been a star!
ME: I could have been a nerd!
MUM: You ARE a nerd!
ME: I could have been a Nationally-known nerd!
Yes, I watched too much TV. Hope you're doing well these days, Matthew.
Matthew was born within a week of my own birth...and also has done voice acting for animated cartoons (which has been a dream job of mine but I feel I could probably never actually do).
Mentioning this stuff to my mother and she replies...
MUM: You could have been a star!
ME: I could have been a nerd!
MUM: You ARE a nerd!
ME: I could have been a Nationally-known nerd!
Yes, I watched too much TV. Hope you're doing well these days, Matthew.
Maybe Someday I'll Forgive Letterman
Jan. 5th, 2009 06:31 pm( An Echo From My Past )With something like this for a growing-up song, is it any wonder that my emotional health is the way it is?
FP
Left Culturally Wanting...
Jan. 2nd, 2009 12:40 amTonight the CBS Evening News, rounding out their slow-news-night programming, profiled the skateboarding bulldogs who performed for the crowds at today's Tournament of Roses Parade.
Of course, the music that was played for the act was "Who Let The Dogs Out?"--
But This Song should have also been used. I mean, c'mon!
Of course, the music that was played for the act was "Who Let The Dogs Out?"--
But This Song should have also been used. I mean, c'mon!
Only Half Of TV
Dec. 10th, 2008 11:02 pmThe CBS, ABC and PBS local stations have been off the air today and tonight for reasons unknown. I missed this week's episode of Criminal Minds...and wonder if the stations will be back on-air tomorrow. This place just got that much more boring.
