Just Me <user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> > 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.
>
Yeah, when you put it that way, it sounds a lot like Tru Calling, and
we all know how that worked out. So I guess Fox will have to be the one
to pick it up. They could even keep it in its old time slot for a
month.
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