Because the people who run AMC, TLC, MTV, and Bravo have never been known for their poor programming decisions or lapses in judgement.

Isn't it more the fact there are so few sitcoms that stations can't be picky?  With reality shows worthless in syndie and hour long shows usually reserved for weekends/cable, stations are begging for anything 1/2 hour long.

Isn't it more the fact there are so few sitcoms that stations can't be picky?  With reality shows worthless in syndie and hour long shows usually reserved for weekends/cable, stations are begging for anything 1/2 hour long.

The Honeybees' You Need Us from a Gilligan's Island episode would have been an instant # 1 in 1966.  No wonder the Mosquitos were scared of competing with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

The Honeybees' You Need Us from a Gilligan's Island episode would have been an instant # 1 in 1966.  No wonder the Mosquitos were scared of competing with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I think TBS got there a year before WGN started being aired nationally.  I always liked WGN and WOR (out of NYC) a lot better than TBS since they actually aired local news and commercials, while by watching TBS it was hard to tell if they were out of Atlanta.  Being from a small town it was really cool to see what big…

The thing I always loved about TBS in the Superstation days (besides all the Braves games) was them airing every show five minutes after the hour, so that if you thought everything at the start of the hour on the other channels was crap you'd give TBS a shot.  It was a ploy so low rent you had to admire it.

Yeah but was "Happy Days" really that good of a show anyway?  Even as a kid I realized its whitewashed version of the 50s meant there was little room for anything remotely intense, both in comedy and character interactions.  (Hell even "Laverne and Shirley" blows it away.)  It was popular because in the wake of the…

If there's ever an Inventory on "shows that lasted way longer than you thought they did" Happy Days will be high up there.  It stayed on the air until 1984!

The point about "New Girl"'s haphazard scheduling hurting its ratings points out something I hate about TV scheduling.  Anyone with a brain knows scheduling a show every week at the same time gets people into the habit of watching that show.  Than why do networks keep airing these shows in short bursts instead of…

Yeah on the live album "Live Killers" the liner notes point out the midsection would just be the record playing because Queen refused to use backing tracks in live performance.

You know what really throws me?  Dallas ran until 1992.  How on earth was this still on TV in the grunge era?

Yeah because "Licensed To Ill" was such a moody introspective record.

I noticed they did the same "open internationally before its U.S. opening" thing for Battleship also.  Why are big budget movies increasingly doing this?

When are Paramount and Warner Brothers gonna throw in the towel with the CW?  Supposedly they've lost hundreds of millions over the past 20 years on UPN/WB/CW networks.

First off I am Mexican American.  And I've enjoyed plenty of shows with black casts and actors.  You know why?  Because I don't seek out entertainment solely because it exactly mirrors my own experiences.  I enjoy shows because they stimulate my emotions, be they dramatic or comedic.  Too many shows these days seem to…

I haven't seen "Girls" yet so I can't comment on its faults.  But my gut guess is the backlash isn't as much "oh great another white people show"  as "oh great another single twentysomething upper middle class show set in the best areas of NYC".  It's astonishing how when our country is more diverse than it's ever…

Is there a specific reason why so many used copies of Monster are around?  Old school fans alienated by the harder rocking sounds? 

Didn't see the Fox special, but those anniversary specials used to be a lot more elaborate.  Here's the opening to the five day long(!) CBS 50th anniversary special from 1978
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I dont' remember that episode, but I remember one where they do a training drill for nuclear war.  It really creeped me out as a kid how each person came to the realization they'd die, and I had to stop watching halfway through.  Plus, didn't they use a very crude form of internet on that episode too?