Despite low readership, TZ is expected back for season five.

It just seems that no matter how easy they make Final anymore, most of the time at least one player finds a way to miss it.

Agreed, the writers were being a little dicky with that one in my opinion.

Sad…pathetic…depressing…all those words apply.

Wow, great article, thanks for the link. A bunch of us used to watch the reruns as a group in the middle of the night, it was really comforting to have such a great show to watch when almost literally nothing else was on.

Realistically, Julia knew that she likely couldn't win unless both
players ahead of her missed it. But instead of betting $0, she bet
$1,701 on the million-to-one chance that the other players would bet $0, since there was no real downside to doing so.

God'll get you for that.

Jeopardy! thread for Wed., Jan. 8 - Champ Andrew swept to the lead early in DJ by running a category related to Maine, but faltered a bit late, which allowed Dinu to open a slim advantage heading into this Final:

To clarify, Todd said they will finish the original TZ series. I think they were wavering after season three and were hesitant to plunge into the hour-long season four episodes.

Holy moly, what disasters these new 10 p.m. shows have been for ABC.

Another oddity is that Dads repeated pretty well during the holiday break. It just kind of seems to be catching on a little bit, while Mindy continues to struggle.

MASH had success with Blake/Potter, Trapper/BJ and Burns/Winchester. But replacing multiple cast members is very tough to pull off and Cheers did it as well as anybody, that's for sure,

TVDW said Twilight Zone is not widely read and they were seriously considering dropping it.

In the case of MTM, I would think a new viewer could come into this episode cold and understand the characters very quickly, so they wouldn't miss out on much of the humor by not having seen the show before.

The one comment I remember most from Ken Levine is that the students in his comedy writing class pretty much aren't even aware of the existence of any sitcom before Friends.

What's interesting to me about those numbers is that Dads is the show everyone assumes is on the chopping block, but compared to Mindy it drew a larger audience against tougher competition, while Mindy continues to bleed viewers from its lead-in.

If the readership here was really interested in being introduced to an older show that many of them hadn't seen and hasn't been heavily rerun, the Larry Sanders reviews would have been very popular.

It might be the Golden Age of the TV drama, but when it comes to sitcoms, the current era doesn't hold a candle to the 70s, especially on the broadcast networks.

Yes, my point is that the attitudes reflected by some of the participants in the WKRP roundtable are also widely held by the readership.

Barney Miller, too, which might have been the ultimate "stage play experience" sitcom.