Comments on: Bad News for Reality-TV Haters http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/10/19/bad-news-for-reality-tv-haters/ Movies, TV and Popular Culture with Rich Heldenfels Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:39:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rich Heldenfels http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/10/19/bad-news-for-reality-tv-haters/#comment-665 Rich Heldenfels Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:39:38 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=819#comment-665 Right you are, Fred. This is partly about money, but it's even more about a failure of creative imagination. Right you are, Fred. This is partly about money, but it's even more about a failure of creative imagination.

]]> By: Fred Farrar http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2006/10/19/bad-news-for-reality-tv-haters/#comment-664 Fred Farrar Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:29:02 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=819#comment-664 Perhaps if Mr. Zucker had given the public some 8 P.M. shows worth watching during his regime it wouldn't have come to such Draconian measures. It seems to me here are more than a few scripted 8 PM show advertisers (and viewers) are more than happy with: Ugly Betty comes to mind, along with Ghost Whisperer NCIS Jericho, and Bones. None of them is on NBC, and four of them debuted in the past two seasons. Great work, Jeff! Perhaps if Mr. Zucker had given the public some 8 P.M. shows worth watching during his regime it wouldn't have come to such Draconian measures.

It seems to me here are more than a few scripted 8 PM show advertisers (and viewers) are more than happy with:

Ugly Betty comes to mind, along with

Ghost Whisperer

NCIS

Jericho, and

Bones.

None of them is on NBC, and four of them debuted in the past two seasons.

Great work, Jeff!

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