Random (TV) Thoughts/Questions
-Does MTV have more reality/dating shows than CBS has crime/law shows? Most likely, given they have twenty-four hours to kill of original programming as opposed to the fifteen or sixteen CBS is responsible for, but percentage of series’? Its pretty much a toss up.
-We are seeing an influx of Irish mob stories in film and television. Which ethnicity has the favorable stereotypes? Italians tend to be categorized as more violent but somehow more cosmopolitian. Irishmen are typically labeled as drunken louts with little or no cognitive abilities. Personally, I think I would prefer the culutural mischaracterization of Italian/Americans, you may be brutally violent but at least it’s by choice.
-HBO needs to spread out the body of their original programming throughout the course of the year. We have three months from teh finale of Extras to the start of the second half of the most recent seasons of Entourage and The Sopranos. Why not pick up one of these two on the same night Extras has its finale? Only seems logical, right?
-From what I understand and from the little I have actually been privy to, Showtime series are a close second to HBO series. But really, what percentage of the American population have Showtime? Like five percent. Honestly, putting Dexter and Weeds on the obscure premium network is akin to The NHL being on Versus. Except people would actually watch the two shows if they were even remotely available.
That’s all I’ve got. More on last nights FNL later today.
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