"Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I am not any more fond of the scheduling changes than you are, but it is
> silly to assume that the Adult Swim staff is motivated by a hatred of
> their viewers.
History does not agree with you, sir.
If this were ANY other network? I'd agree. But Adult Swim has a long,
tiresome history of being openly antagonistic towards their viewer****p.
> A television network is a business, and their primary
> motive is to make the business as successful as possible. That keeps the
> network's focus on ratings and demographics. Adult Swim will go with
> highly rated shows, irrespective of what they think of the shows or the
> fans.
Except that they keep replacing shows people actually watch with shows
that
perform with consistently poor ratings, or shows that are universally
hated
by viewers. Why else bring back Assy McGee?
> The banter in the Adult Swim bumpers frequently include the ratings. The
> Williams Street comedy shows almost always have higher ratings than the
> Anime shows.
Assuming we can trust those numbers. Which I don't. I don't trust one damn
thing Williams Street says about ANYTHING.
> That is why we see the cutback in Anime.
This isn't a "cutback", this is an EXCISION. Which is inexcusable and
unfathomable.
> Trust me, if the
> Anime shows were drawing bigger audiences, Adult Swim would schedule
> more of them. Could you honestly imagine the Adult Swim staff telling
> the Time Warner board "Yes, we know we could give you a better return on
> your investment if we scheduled more Anime, but we just don't feel like
> doing it"?
Yes, I can. Because Turner Broadcasting has long since stopped caring what
Adult Swim does, so long as it doesn't get them sued. That's why they can
get away with some of the **** they pull.
> I agree that "Assy McGee" is abysmal, and I was hoping its long hiatus
> indicated that the show was dropped. Even so, its long absence indicates
> that they have little faith in "Assy", so a few more weeks of low
> ratings should polish it off.
Yeah? That's what we thought about the Tom Goes guys. Except they got a
second show. And there's stirrings that they're going to get YET ANOTHER
show.
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