Tuesday Links
Still nothing on Monday or Tuesday nights worth discussing, so until there is an intriguing premiere of some sort then this will become a weekly occurence…
Here’s an article partly blaming Friday Night Lights paltry ratings on the Texas setting. Since according to voting habits, half the country isn’t inclined to relate to any of the conservative values Texas is known to bestow and the show emulates, those in larger cities dismiss its merits based on that alone. In a sort of twisted, partial equivalent, I would say the opposite is true for Arrested Development. And, well, AD has been cancelled for well over a year now.
Keith Olbermann is set to join the pre-game crew for Sunday Night Football on NBC. Isn’t this the liberal equivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Football is about escapism above anything else, no one wants to be reminded of the state of ill-repair on Sunday nights, and that’s exactly what they’ll see when Olbermann pops up on their television.
Speaking of NBC, they are well on their way to delivering the worst recorded ratings in the history of the network. NBC is the only network willing to take any risks, so NBC’s ratings are in the toilet. It’s a great precedent we’re setting for future television series.
There is widespread speculation that BET is editing out the Dockworkers plot from its syndication airing of the second season of The Wire. This would, of course, be absurd. It comprises a significant part of the series: the fall of the working class as it drains on the American city. This might come as a surprise to the network executives at BET, but such dilemmas adversly affect black people as well as whites.
And finally, Tucker Carlson, looking to get out of the news business as evidenced by his bit on Dancing With The Stars, is now set to host a game show on CBS entitled, Do You Trust Me?. So does this mean the resurgence of the bowtie? That’s all anyone wants to know.
Not much TV news in the past week. We’ll try to have more today if we are not too busy at work.
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