NBC Lineup Message

"Pop Culture" wrote in message
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This doesn't bother me because I quit watching all of NBCs lame shows !

Hey, not all of NBCs shows suck. The ones on Wednesday are pretty good, and
I'm looking forward to Lyon's Den (if Rob Lowe left West Wing for it, I have
to assume it won't suck).

Scrubs is pretty good, too, despite their funny Thursday scheduling. However,
Scrubs is 2 minutes short, thus it doesn't spill over into something else's
slot and it doesn't cause scheduling problems.

Ken

I read about 20 years ago that, in Japan, TV shows are not locked into 30
minute blocks.

OTOH, this is why God created DirecTIVOs with 2 tuners!

We have to realize that the big media companies are run, for the most part,
by people who don't really understand the technology they're trying to
manage or, more to the point, the law of unintended consequences.

Congress, on the other hand, understands the law of unintended consequences
but doesn't care.


"Karen Wheless" wrote in message
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Did anyone else get the Tivo message today about the NBC lineup? When I
turned on my Tivo this morning, the message came onto the screen
immediately, which surprised me. I don't remember the exact wording,
but it said something like "NBC has used unconventional start times for
many of their Thursday night shows, so check your To Do list and
Recording History to make sure you aren't missing anything".

I was pretty startled that Tivo would send out a message like that,
especially since it mentioned NBC directly. (Doesn't Tivo have some
kind of joint agreement with NBC?) It seemed like a criticism of NBC's
methods.

I think NBC is stupid for changing the ER start time to 9:59 (which
brings it into conflict with CSI, the #1 show on TV - how many Tivo
users will just cancel ER instead of missing CSI or setting up a manual
recording?) but I was even more surprised to see Tivo sending out a high
priority message that seemed pointedly critical of NBC.

Karen

Ken Alverson wrote:
I'm looking forward to Lyon's Den (if Rob Lowe left West Wing for it, I have
to assume it won't suck).

Rob Lowe was tossed from West Wing when he demanded the same pay as Martin
Sheen, saying that he was just as big on the show.

But, you're right about wanting to see it... ;-)


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Ken Alverson ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
Hey, not all of NBCs shows suck. The ones on Wednesday are pretty good, and
I'm looking forward to Lyon's Den (if Rob Lowe left West Wing for it, I have
to assume it won't suck).

I don't know...if West Wing had been 35 minutes (out of 43 total for the
program) of Rob Lowe instead of the ensemble it is, I think it would have
been a lot closer to "suck" than it is. Lyon's Den will be 35 minutes of
Rob Lowe, and will be more soap opera-like, according to reviews.

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Ken Alverson wrote:
I'm looking forward to Lyon's Den (if Rob Lowe left West Wing for it, I have
to assume it won't suck).

Rob Lowe was tossed from West Wing when he demanded the same pay as Martin
Sheen, saying that he was just as big on the show.

But, you're right about wanting to see it... ;-)


Rob Lowe *left* (wasn't tossed -he decided to leave when he wasn't
given a raise -the only cast member to never get one, including Sheen
who had a higher salary than all of them from the start, and still got
a raise) and there hasn't been *any* evidence that he wanted the exact
same pay as Sheen. And, he left for reasons besides not getting a
raise, the main one being that the character of Sam was getting
shuffled off to storylines that weren't even on par with his costars.

"Karen Wheless" wrote in message
om...
Did anyone else get the Tivo message today about the NBC lineup? When I
turned on my Tivo this morning, the message came onto the screen
immediately, which surprised me. I don't remember the exact wording,
but it said something like "NBC has used unconventional start times for
many of their Thursday night shows, so check your To Do list and
Recording History to make sure you aren't missing anything".

I was pretty startled that Tivo would send out a message like that,
especially since it mentioned NBC directly. (Doesn't Tivo have some
kind of joint agreement with NBC?) It seemed like a criticism of NBC's
methods.

I think NBC is stupid for changing the ER start time to 9:59 (which
brings it into conflict with CSI, the #1 show on TV - how many Tivo
users will just cancel ER instead of missing CSI or setting up a manual
recording?) but I was even more surprised to see Tivo sending out a high
priority message that seemed pointedly critical of NBC.

Karen

I'd like to complain/comment to NBC about this but, can't find a link for
email to them for this. I found MSNBC, SHOPNBC, NBCSPORTS, CNBC and etc. If
anyone has a link and posts it I'll definately send them feedback.
TIA,
Dave

Joe Smith ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
From Zap2It and TiVo guide data:
8:00pm (48 min) Friends
8:48pm (39 min) Will & Grace
9:27pm (30 min) Coupling
9:59pm (61 min) ER

In case anyone is interested, that extra 18 minutes of "Friends" managed
to give us a whole 7-1/2 minutes more *show*. Yes, that's right, there
were 29-1/2 minutes of show (including the opening and closing credits)
and 18-1/2 minutes of commercials or previews.

Normal shows are 22 and 8, or 73% "show". "Friends" was a mere 61% "show".

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:29:54 -0400, Jeff Rife wrote:
Normal shows are 22 and 8, or 73% "show". "Friends" was a mere 61%
"show".

I always wonder about stuff like that

I wonder if the "show" snippets were shorter (or about the same length)
and there wore more of them (and thus more commercial breaks), or if they
actually had about the same number of commercial breaks with longer "show"
snippets...

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Lenroc

Lenroc ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
I wonder if the "show" snippets were shorter (or about the same length)
and there wore more of them (and thus more commercial breaks), or if they
actually had about the same number of commercial breaks with longer "show"
snippets...

In this case, they ran more acts ("snippets" in your post), and each of
the acts was a bit shorter than a normal one. A regular "Friends" episode
is a teaser, two acts, and a tag. This one was a teaser, 3 acts, and a tag.

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:48:59 -0400, Jeff Rife wrote:

In this case, they ran more acts ("snippets" in your post), and each of
the acts was a bit shorter than a normal one. A regular "Friends" episode
is a teaser, two acts, and a tag. This one was a teaser, 3 acts, and a
tag.

Interesting. Acts is a much better word, btw

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Lenroc