Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin achieved the highest ratings in several years for two major TV network comedy shows in the past few days.
Posts Tagged ‘ ratings ’
New TV Series Continue Precipitous Decline
As the movie studios and TV channels and production companies contemplate the writers union’s demands, they might want to take a serious look at the lackluster performance of this year’s film releases and the horrible ratings for the current season’s new TV shows. The latter are simply disastrous and aptly reflect the lackluster quality of most of the new series. Although the new season has brought a continuation of the gradual increase in moral seriousness of new shows evident during the past few years, the tone of the new programs has been exceptionally downbeat, and viewerships have dropped rapidly after the first couple of weeks when viewers sampled the new shows.
Bionic Gloombot
If you were going to make a show about a "bionic woman," it would be all about how great it would be to have superpowerful hearing and eyesight and be able to run at a speed of 60 mph and punch holes in brick walls. C’mon, that’s be a blast, wouldn’t it? And you’d want the character to go around helping people, because life would be really boring when she could easily steal anything she wanted. So instead she’d be a sort of one-woman A-Team, like the Jaime Sommers in the 1975-78 series starring Lindsay Wagner. And that’s the kind of show you’d want to watch, right?
Media Getting Dirtier But Easier to Clean Up
The media are exposing children to too much overly sexual and violent content, but parents are increasingly finding ways to shield their children from programming of which they don’t approve. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Hollywood to Censor Smoking
The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking will be considered in rating movies, along with depictions of sexuality and violence. Glamorization of smoking will bring on a more restrictive rating, and tobacco use will be added to the increasingly elaborate descriptions of movie content the industry’s rating system is incorporating. Given that nobody is allowed to smoke anywhere in the previously free United States, simple realism would seem to require filmmakers to stop showing people smoking. Of course, reality hasn’t been an interest for Hollywood for several decades. Witness, for example, Hollywood’s support for global warming myths and leftist politics.
Recent Comments