"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1125595373.04b15a070166af1e4a2b10d6686e05e3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:52 GMT, "ottomatic" <spamout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"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:
> >>
> >> >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
> >
> >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).
if you check, you will see I never said it was "just" a teenage
comming-of-age-show,
but Joan WAS the title character...and very much the major storyline.
Otto
>
> 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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