Posted on 03/08/2018 6:41:55 AM PST by simpson96
RUSH: I want to read to you the headline for a pilot — an actual upcoming pilot — for a new CBS prime-time TV show. “White Dad Widowed After White Cop Kills His Black Husband.” You think that’s gonna clean up prime-time ratings? They do.
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RUSH: Here’s CBS. They’re producing a pilot for a new prime-time TV show. You know, they run the pilot, they see how it airs, and if it goes well, then they order a series from it. In some cases, the pilot is something that will air… They buy these things in different ways. Sometimes there’s something called a straight-to-series order. So a favored producer and writer will pitch the network a concept and they’ll like it so much they’ll buy it.
They’ll schedule it in the prime time schedule. Other producers and writers don’t have the weight, so they have to cut a pilot, show that to the network. The network says, “Yeah, you know what…?” Or “That stinks. Take it away from here,” and they’re gone. I don’t know what the case is with this, but I think this is going to air. But the pilot that CBS is working on, “White Dad Widowed After White Cop Kills His Black Husband.” Somebody out there had to come up with this premise. Somebody out there had to think that this is going to knock ’em dead in America.
Somebody thinks that this is gonna kill. Somebody thinks this is gonna make big bucks. Somebody thinks this is gonna attract a huge audience. (interruption) Slower? CBS pilot: “White dad…” Okay? White father. “Widowed.” That means spouse is killed or dies. “After white cop kills” the white dad’s “black husband.” There’s your premise. They probably at CBS said, “Well, look at the junk that people are watching on Netflix! We need to get in on the junk.”
It’s probably what this… Who knows? But somebody — just like at TIME magazine once they thought when they learned that men and women are born different, “Wow, that’s worth a cover story!” Somebody at CBS thinks that this is gonna win big. “The potential hour-long drama follows the events that follow after a white Chicago police officer mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor. The series would follow three different families with personal ties to the case with the aftermath of the tragic shooting being told from each perspective.”
This is sort of like a replay on that movie Crash. Have you ever seen the movie Crash? That sounds like what this is. There’s one event, and they’re not just gonna focus on… (laughing) They’re gonna focus on three different families affected. You’re not gonna be able to escape if you watch this.
The New Normal was supposed to be a great blockbuster comedy series that would reform TV.
It lasted one season, IIRC.
The renewed Will & Grace seemed to be pulling in relatively low ratings, considering all of the whoopla about its resurrection.
I watched my last episode of 911. Another show designed to jam deviant behaviour down our throats. One couple is highlighted where the wife is a cop and her husband is hsving an affair with his boyfriend, and their marriage is on the rocks because of it. Another couple is a lesbian firefighter that is cheating on her wife with another lesbian that wants custody of their child. None of it is considered wrong, but just highlighting how normal it is for them to have problems like real married couples. They started with a few decent episodes but have evolved into the ususl hollywood dirt. Another show that I will not watch...
I’m convinced Last Man Standing was cancelled because they refused to turn it into a homo-promo.
MASH has been run to death on ME-TV.
As much as I like the show, something different in that slot would be great.
Antenna TV has a good lineup.
Didn’t you hear the news. Planned Parenthood claims “Men have a uterus”. You know they should know!
Good. I am tired of women telling me how painful it is to have a baby. I rather enjoyed it.
I used to get Antenna TV before relocating to another part of the country. Now all I can get so far as nostalgia channels goes is MeTV. Not dissing that network, but Antenna TV did have some good programming. I especially miss the reruns of Barney Miller.
Barney Miller was classic stuff.
I have the boxed set of DVDs and went through them for my lunch break entertainment last year.
Here's the one where Wojo (unwittingly) brings hash-laced brownies into the office. Hilarity ensues!
Yes they do
A favorite of mine is the one where Dietrich beats the lie detector with outlandish answers.
Some of the stuff on Netflix is better than that.
Does the dead black gay husband come back as a ‘72 Caprice with 22’s, offering sage advice and life instruction whenever they take it out for a spin? Let me guess, the “widow” makes peace with the white cop who killed his “husband,” they fall in love, white cop has a sex change and they live happily ever after, once they adopt a bunch of black male children. Hijinx galore, like the Brady Bunch but their midcentury modern ranch is not at all like that tacky 70’s split level.
I have been watching the channels I get over the air free and there are some good ones that have great shows on:
(a) Laff Channel rerunning old sitcoms
(b) Grit: rerunning old westerns like Laramie and Wagon Train
(c) COZI channel running all kind of good shows
(d) ME TV running old classic TV shows
(e) ION Channel running shows like Law & Order, Blue Bloods, and Law & Order SUV
(f) YouTube for all manner of great shows and movies on my ROKU
You get the drift, lots of alternatives to the Networks and the crap they now run.
Modern Family is an example on Network TV, I can’t figure out how it has stayed on so long. I refuse to watch it.
I agree on MASH, personally I would only run the first three seasons when it was really a great show.
They could start rerunning Car 54 in that time slot and I would watch it.
The pilot might work if the white man and the black husband are both women and Chinese. Changstien. Pepe Changstien. She is a cook. She can pantomime. And read. She or he is a mailman. You can ask him or her where the Chinese restaurant is. That’s an episode right there!
I’d like Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Quincy, Remington Steele, or Kojak.
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