tv land prime-related stories
Posted Aug 6th 2009 8:31AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Watercooler Talk
This show actually isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I mean, it's fluffy and you'll forget about it the day after you see it, and I doubt I'll watch it again. But it's good to see a hidden camera show that goes out of its way to
help an unsuspecting person instead of embarrassing/fooling/arresting them.
Did anyone else catch this, and will you watch it again?
Posted Aug 4th 2009 5:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free
So I was watching
The Andy Griffith Show marathon that
TV Land seems to air every other day. This isn't my complaint, as I would watch that show every day of the week (as long as they're the black and white episodes and not the color ones, but that's another rant). No, my complaint is about the commercial that ran during the marathon.
The promo isn't online so I'll have to describe it. The narrator talks about how times change (with a montage of how phones have evolved over the years), how tastes change (a montage of different foods that people have eaten over the decades), and how we've changed (a montage of different hairstyles you might have had since you were a kid). The point of all this is that things change, but ... change is good! And that's why it's good that TV Land has a bunch of reality shows instead of classic TV shows, because things change and that's where viewers are now in their lives.
Continue reading New TV Land promo will make you sad, angry and maybe a little sick
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 Apr 13th 2009 7:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd
TV Land just keeps drifting further and further away from what they originally were. It wouldn't surprise me if some day we see them change the name to Reality Land and all of the older comedies and dramas dragged over to Nick at Nite.
The network has
announced a few new reality shows, including one that they call an "anti-makeover" show. If it's truly anti-makeover, it will be a scripted comedy, but I'm sure it's really just another damn reality program. They have also announced a third season (gah) of
High School Reunion. Guess all the people in their 40s and 50s like these things, though as someone in my 40s I'd just like to say HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, TV LAND? I DON'T WANT TO SEE MORE REALITY SHOWS AND MAKEOVER SHOWS, EVEN IF THEY ARE "ANTI."
Continue reading Oh joy: more reality shows and makeover shows coming to TV Land
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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