I thought I understood Hillary's message pretty well: if you liked the past 8 years, vote for me. She was an incremental change candidate.

If Bernie had won by some miracle, we'd see a right-wing wave in 2020 that would make this year look like the Summer of Love in comparison.

He's "popular" because nobody has seriously attacked him and he hasn't been called upon to deliver on what he preaches.

He dominated the coverage (and still delivers ratings to those who talk about him) because people are interested in him, both because of outrage and support. The media wasn't pushing Trump on the audience, they supported the coverage.

It's about race. Period.

Which is why he's so popular with his fan base that can't accept that wrestling is fake. He's one of them.

It's been heading this way for 50 years. Trump isn't the disease, he's a symptom.

Nowadays, it's a conundrum because NBC's sitcom ratings are so poor that the bar for renewal there is lower than CBS or ABC. On the other hand, running on NBC today is practically a guarantee that a sitcom won't be a Big Bang Theory or Modern Family-sized hit.

One thing you'll notice from 1960s TV Guides is that it considered itself a truly journalistic publication - even the cover stories that you'd expect to be puff pieces tended to throw some kind of unflattering angle in there. And there was a lot of good industry stuff that gradually went away as it got closer to the…

I think what really saved it were the sub-demographics, as the few viewers it did have were in a higher income group. Also, it had a different style that convinced NBC that it would need more than a handful of episodes to catch on.

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Yes, it would.

Twilight Zone also gets regular reviews in written and podcast form.

It's hard to say with 100% certainty for a summer series, but getting crushed by The Gong Show doesn't bode well for Zoo.

The clue forced him to look into the camera and brag about winning an Emmy for writing an episode of the series that's named after himself. I guess I can see how that could feel a little weird.

I'll add to the dilemma discussed in the linked THR piece that thanks to the internet, there's also much more *old* television available to watch than ever before, some that hasn't been seen in decades.

By the sea shore.

Was The Office the last example of a show with absolute shit ratings in its first season that was renewed on faith alone and went on to become a huge hit?

Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Jul. 5 - Champ Jon struggled in the early going and trailed entering DJ, but his opponents didn't have quite enough to keep him there, as Jon asserted himself at the end of the round to lead into FJ with $11,000 vs. $9,000 for Chloe and $8,000 for Sebastian.

I agree with that in theory. It's just a little harder to move that show to the top of a very crowded viewing heap.