[Opinionated Blowhard]

Last year, History pulled meganumbers with Hatfields and McCoys; now NBC is developing a Hatfields and McCoys series.

LOL. Any bets on whether this NBC show has a black family that is treated as equals by the leading characters (other than, ironically, the evil racist Republican) and shows women in prominent, leading roles where they are doing everything the men are doing? This show will tank after a couple episodes when the novelty of the historical setting wears off.

The problem with anything a network does is that it will impose today's values on the historical characters. It is the rare show that actually shows what life really was like (as closely as possible) in past ages. If religion is introduced into more shows, it will be Hollywood's version of religion (humanistic, gay tolerant, let's get along with all religions-type religion).

[BobinIL]

NBC would like it if we all named our kids Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman.

[TomGuy]

The problem with anything a network does is that it will impose today's values on the historical characters.

I watched a series filmed in the late 1990s, but set in a rural area in the 1870s. One episode had as its theme that guns are bad. In actuality, nearly everyone in such a time and location had and knew how to use a gun -- for protection from both 2-foot and 4-foot preditors.

Currently, many programs insert the global warming agenda, even when such an insertion is awkward or not related to the plot.

Other story lines are seeming to rely on the evils of corporations and corporate greed. Hmmmm, wonder why? I have noticed that those evil Ruskies have replaced the Islamofanatical terrorists as the major bad-guys.