Rex wrote:
>
> Just Me wrote:
>
>>"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:180520051624017341%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>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).
>>
>>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.
>
>
> Joan could enlist the aid of Buffy the vampire slayer... ;-)
>
Joan could do a **** scene. Viewers would increase dramatically.
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