"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Just Me <user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> You guys obviously don't realize that the deciding factor for CBS
dumping
>> Joan of Arcadia was the fact that its audience skews older. At the
>> upfront
>> yesterday, when Les Moonves was talking about the new Jennifer Love
>> Hewitt
>> series, Ghost Whisperer, he said, "I think talking to ghosts may skew
>> younger than talking to God." If your show's audience is too old for
>> CBS,
>> you know you're in trouble. So do you really expect the youth-obsessed
>> WB
>> to be interested?
>
> All you have to do is crank down the plot lines involving the parents,
> and reduce the time they spend at school. Make it more about Joan and
> her teenaged cohorts. Maybe add a hot girl or two (a Summer, not a
> Marissa).
If they proposed that, then Joe Mantegna and Mary Steenbergen would bolt.
They wouldn't be contractually obligagted to sign on if the show switched
networks and I know that Mantegna has said that he only did the show in
the
first place because it wasn't a WB type show. Without the parents, it
would
be difficult, if not impossible, to feature Joan's family. So you'd end
up
with now college freshman Joan, battling Satan with the help of her
college
buddies. Even the WB wouldn't go near that stinker.
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