On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:52 GMT, "ottomatic" <spamout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:1125496084.b4454c8352fa6fa3e2e1d08becd0a1e6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:08:00 +0200, Georg Litty
>> <georg.litty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >Hi Rob ... you again ... :-)
>> >
>> >Rob Jensen schrieb:
>> >>>Noone posting here?
>> >> The show's dead.
>> >Oh ****. Should have checked that ...
>> >Why do they always do that ... how much episodes have I to look
forward
>to?
>> >We just had season 1 here in Germany/Switzerland ...
>> >
>> >Ciao, Georg <><
>>
>> One more 22-episode season (with IMO, 7-8 of the show's best
>> episodes.)
>>
>> CBS cancelled it 1) because its ratings collapsed early in the 2nd
>> season and
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>2) because its audience demographics were skewing old.
>
>a bit of a puzzler to me, how does a tennage 'comming of age' show
>skew older
>was it because it was on CBS?
>
>Otto
>>
1) Because it *wasn't* just a "teenage coming of age show" -- it was
half quasi-police procedural (Joe Mantegna's half of the show).
2) Related to that, two of the show's three leads, Mantegna and
Steenburgen skew to older demographics.
3) The "Touched By an Angel" Message Show vibe skews older and
allegedly religious -- although, IMO, the show's more liberal,
tolerant-skewing message actuallly *alienated* the closeminded,
literalist evangelicals who were the target audience for "TBAA." So
the show's premise turned off liberals before they watched the show
due to the quasi-religious premise and it turned off fundamentalists
after *they* saw the show and what was left was those of us who just
didn't give a **** either way, tried the show just for the hell of it
(pun not intended, but appreciated) and stuck around as the show
quickly proved itself to confound every pre-existing notion about it.
-- Rob
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