TheCougar-related stories
Posted May 12th 2009 12:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Ratings
You won't believe which show is kicking the collective ass of TV Land's
The Cougar. Then again, maybe you will.
The New York Times reports that reruns of (Shazam!)
The Andy Griffith Show are the cable network's most watched show.
So does this mean that the former classic TV network will go back to running
shows that people actually want to watch? Probably not. Sorry to break the bad news to you. Oh, and there is no Santa Claus, and if the tooth fairy does exist, she's probably a big ol' commie.
Continue reading The Cougar is not TV Land's number one show
Posted Apr 16th 2009 9:05AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
The marketing for this show has been relentless, and that's an understatement. It's easier to shake the SARS virus in a back alley chicken hut in downtown Hong Kong than it is to shake an ad for
The Cougar.
One of my personal rules (number one is "thou who smelt it, dealt it") is the harder the advertising, the worse a show is bound to be. TV Land hasn't just aired a commercial for
The Cougar every five seconds in between their few remaining watchable shows. They air it on other networks. They plaster ads all over the Internet. If the economy dips any lower, they'll probably start tattooing ads to people's foreheads.
Continue reading Does anyone watch The Cougar and if so, do they have eyes?
Posted Mar 29th 2009 12:38PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, TV Royalty, Programming, OpEd
My family often watches TV during the dinner hour. There, I've said it. I'm not proud of that fact, but there you have it. We also force the kids to take 2-hour nature walks with us every weekend, so maybe it all evens out in the end.
Our favorite channel during the dinner hour is TV Land. In our neck of the woods,
Hogan's Heroes airs from 6 to 7 p.m., and
The Andy Griffith Show from 7 to 8 p.m. We love both these shows, and the episodes always spark laughter and a few discussion topics. Like, how could Colonel Klink be such a dimwit, and why can't more people be like Andy Taylor?
But we might have to start watching the Discovery or History channels or - gasp! - turn the TV off altogether, because the commercials on TV Land are making us gag on our organic mac-and-cheese. I'm talking about the commercials for TV Land's reality shows,
High School Reunion and
The Cougar.
Continue reading Reality shows on TV Land? It's a world gone mad!
Posted Mar 19th 2009 7:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Industry, Reality-Free
Cable channels used to have fairly rigid formats that followed simple formulas. Nickelodeon was the network for kids. ESPN was the network for sports. USA was the network for non-stop reruns of
Wings.
Now most of them have fallen into a strange gelatinous blob of unoriginal and unrecognizable sewage. I believe the technical term is "reality shows."
The TV Land network has been slowly engulfed by this blob of mediocrity with shows like
High School Reunion and
The Cougar. Their latest VP hire indicates it's about to be swallowed whole by more of the same.
Continue reading Hoping for less reality TV on TV Land? Keep on hoping
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