On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:24:03 GMT, Mark Nobles
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> wrote:
>Just Me <user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> 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).
What gets me is Moonves is completely oblivious to the fact that Ghost
Whisperer was DOA before he even announced it. It's obvious that
they're trying to rip off Medium and worse, the failure of Trial By
Jury has proven what everybody, fan, critic and industry insider alike
have been complaining about for the past two years -- there are too
many damn crime procedurals on broadcast TV even now.
And sure, we all sneered at the premise of Joan of Arcadia when that
show was first announced two Upfronts ago, but unlike Ghost Whisperer,
JoA had actual pedigree actors and writers on it (Jennifer Love
Hewitt? Come on. Get real.) CBS should just go ahead and apologize
to the cast and give them the midseason pity **** half-renewal that
they gave Becker two years ago that allowed that show to wrap things
up and they gave Yes, Dear this season that resulted in the latter
inexplicably being given a full season renewal this week.
Plus, if Joan of Arcadia were to go for a full five seasons, it'd more
than likely make tons of money for Paramount/CBS Studios and studio
partner Sony off syndication rights. It'd probably end up as another
beloved perennial on ABC Family, so I don't see how it couldn't be a
no-brainer for Paramount to deficit-finance three more seasons of JoA
and just find another network to run it on (UPN or The WB, most
likely). JoA has high-caliber writing and acting -- it's just plain
insane for Paramount to be deciding to throw money at shows that are
going to be DOA when a quality show that's nearly halfway to
syndication anway would take a lot less effort to get to syndication
than funding a zillion Ghost Whisperers will be.
And I suppose it didn't occur to Moonves and CBS that the reason that
JoA's demos skewed older is because *the damn show was scheduled on
one of the two nights of the week where young people are out getting
laid." IMO, this is a case where young people weren't avoiding it --
they were simply doing what they always do, avoiding *all* TV on
Friday nights. In that light, CBS's unwillingness to give JoA a new
timeslot on a different night just looks all the more moronic.
-- Rob
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