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NBC's 'Do No Harm' = Biggest Flop in Network TV History!

bigdaddy said:
Cable shows reruns of their shows at 11 and 12 at night, networks can't do that.
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They could, they just don't. I think the reason cable networks rebroadcast their prime-time shows a few hours later is because they only provide one feed to all four time zones, so what's prime time in the Eastern time zone is too early for prime time in Mountain or Pacific. An 8 PM show on the East Coast would be airing at 5 PM on the West, and people are still driving home from work then. So there are two broadcasts to hit prime time for the two halves of the country, basically. The main broadcast networks don't have to do it that way since they have separate feeds for the different time zones.
 
Listening to Stephen Cobert talking about Superbowl adspace has me wonder if most of the time, that no Americans are ever watching TV...

God bless Meth.
 
I actually liked the pilot. It was interesting. Had a few little rough spots, but no worse than most pilots. I hope they give it a shot to improve.
 
On a rapidshare website I cruised though yesterday, they listed/labelled the first episode as the totality of season one.

They're figuring out how to pull the plug much earlier.
 
Christopher said:
bigdaddy said:
Cable shows reruns of their shows at 11 and 12 at night, networks can't do that.
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They could, they just don't. I think the reason cable networks rebroadcast their prime-time shows a few hours later is because they only provide one feed to all four time zones, so what's prime time in the Eastern time zone is too early for prime time in Mountain or Pacific. An 8 PM show on the East Coast would be airing at 5 PM on the West, and people are still driving home from work then. So there are two broadcasts to hit prime time for the two halves of the country, basically. The main broadcast networks don't have to do it that way since they have separate feeds for the different time zones.
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Actually, from what I understand, all channels provide one feed to Eastern/Central, then a separate one for Pacific. Reruns of shows that aired on the same night might just be a cheap way of getting ad revenue for cable channels.
 
The bigger, entertainment based cable nets do indeed, supply East coast/West coast feeds to cable systems. There are still a few smaller, (or less powerful-from an industry influence standpoint) cable channels that send a single feed. WGN America being one example.
 
I very rarely start a new hour long drama. This season, I've only started watching Arrow. Needless to say, nothing about the previews for this caught my interest.

As far as NBC goes, I think the worst thing that I can say is that I really started liking the show Go On and have to keep remembering it's on NBC, not ABC.
 
shivkala said:
I very rarely start a new hour long drama.
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Same here. I'll wait for a season to conclude and then watch it on DVD or streaming if the reviews are good enough.

scotpens said:
Carcazoid said:
It's worse than My Mother The Car? Wow!
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I can't imagine how a show could be worse than Supertrain.
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To be fair, this is about ratings, not quality.

Also, were Supertrain's ratings that low or was it a case of the ratings not being good enough to justify the (I think) unprecedented budget?
 
Temis the Vorta said:
NBC is probably in a bind. Their young, urban, coastal audience has defected to cable (or Netflix/hulu/Amazon). They need to get them back, but they have to do it with shows that stand out in a crowd, like Revolution managed to do.
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To the extent that NBC has an identity, I think its identity is sitcoms that appeal to a smarter audience than the bland crap that CBS provides. But even that identity is in peril now because 30 Rock & The Office are ending this season and Community will likely get cancelled after they burn off the remaining episodes this spring. :(

jayceee said:
Temis the Vorta said:
but what kind of show is an NBC show (and no the correct answer should not be "a total failure.")
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Over most of the 2000's, I thought NBC was the Law & Order network. :)
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I really miss the original Law & Order. :( Cancelling a legend like that in favor of an untested Los Angeles spin-off was just dumb.

Christopher said:
bigdaddy said:
Cable shows reruns of their shows at 11 and 12 at night, networks can't do that.
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They could, they just don't. I think the reason cable networks rebroadcast their prime-time shows a few hours later is because they only provide one feed to all four time zones, so what's prime time in the Eastern time zone is too early for prime time in Mountain or Pacific. An 8 PM show on the East Coast would be airing at 5 PM on the West, and people are still driving home from work then. So there are two broadcasts to hit prime time for the two halves of the country, basically. The main broadcast networks don't have to do it that way since they have separate feeds for the different time zones.
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Cable networks (and PBS) repeat their stuff all the time. Part of this is because they don't have to worry so much about local affiliate content. I wish I had cable if only because cable channels show actual TV shows during the daytime instead of innundating us with godawful talk shows & judge shows. (There's a woman at work that's always putting the TV in the break room onto The Wendy Williams Show. It's the most useless piece of garbage I've ever seen. She even did this once right in the middle of an episode of Law & Order: SVU that I was watching!:mad:)
 
The Borgified Corpse said:
I really miss the original Law & Order. :( Cancelling a legend like that in favor of an untested Los Angeles spin-off was just dumb.
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I imagine that twenty seasons of cost increases mixed with the expense of shooting in New York and declining ratings made the Los Angeles-based spin-off quite appealing. They might have tried pairing them together at first, though, before discarding the original.
 
Harvey said:
I imagine that twenty seasons of cost increases mixed with the expense of shooting in New York and declining ratings made the Los Angeles-based spin-off quite appealing.
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Yup. Most network decisions that seem "dumb" or arbitrary seem less so once you realize that virtually all decisions in television are ultimately about money. In prose, you can do whatever you can imagine; in TV, you can only do what you can afford, and what's practically and logistically achievable.
 
You're forgetting exposition.

The Tick (TV Show) was great at this.

They were always talking about these billion dollar special effects that just happened off camera as giant fire breathing robots kicked over bridges and...

Shakespeare used to be good at this with his Histories as well, staging his scenes around massive battles which the characters would then complain and marvel about.

Have you seen the movie Rage?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234550/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

It's just actors talking, like in a confession to a blogger who is recording their monologuing with his cellphone, but all these things are happening, the moment is spinning out of control, but we don't see anything but talking heads in front of a changing colour field depending on the emotion of the content, stressing over their involvement in the developments.

But, that is cheating.

Forcing lazy people to use their imagination.

Worse than subtitles really.

I wonder how difficult it was to shoot the original Fame TV series?
 
Do no Harm is Do No Ratings. This show will probably be canceled tomorrow morning. Will NBC air every episode or will they yank it from the schedule is the only unknown at this point.
 
Well, episode 2 aired.

For some reason.

It's like they said "If you 'll put up with Beauty and the Beast, maybe you won't mind some this just a little bit more painful?"

I liked the new episodes of Smash. :)
 
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