That guy had to be kidding with those statements. It's way too close to Trump's "so much winning, you're going to beg me to stop".

Hmmm…never thought of the Buffalo Bill supporting cast as being unlikable. Some of them were a bit cranky at having to deal with Bill's antics all the time, but that's understandable.

Yes, and I should clarify that I was mainly referring to TV news personalities as to a large extent being dolts and dullards.

Translation: CNN didn't really care about this New Year's Eve show and even a little bit of hassle over this was more than it was worth.

Not just cowardly, but uninformed and incurious.

When it premiered, some critics were hoping it would be the new Barney Miller, more rooted in reality than absurdity.

One gets the sense that if 70s Password had run on CBS, it would have been preserved as Match Game and Tattletales were.

Of course, as with all statements from his spokespeople, that message isn't directed at the public, but at Trump himself.

President Tim Allen, on the other hand…

I suppose not. It's a miracle that Card Sharks is as well-preserved as it is.

It occurred to me that this election was between the fat, bumbling guy from decades of sitcoms running against his much smarter, long-suffering wife who was always trying to talk him out of his crazy schemes.

In other words, the dream woman of all time!

Do you need anybody
F**k no I've got the greatest brain and words
Could it be anybody
Just leave me alone to scream at the TV and tweet

The only new scripted show anyway, there's also NBC's Little Big Shots and some cooking crap on Fox.

If This Is Us could have dragged Great News to a 1.0, then it would have had a shot at the low 2s, likely making it the highest non-football show of the night. But is it worth risking a Blacklist-like decline? No way.

The initial plan to move This Is Us behind Great News on Thursdays was an amazing act of sheer stupidity and backing off was the right thing to do.

Airing the no. 1-rated show to lead off the night with nothing new behind it? There's something that would never happen today.

He can get by with between 20-25% of eligible voters either being loyal to him or hating his opponents more.

That developed into a smarter show, but was a ratings winner from the start. I'm thinking of low-rated shows that were barely renewed and were subject to network tinkering to "improve" their appeal.

It also did the important job of firming up the ratings in the post-Cheers 9:30 slot after the flops of Taxi, Buffalo Bill and The Duck Factory.