Imperfect storm for CBS's 'Category 7

Media Life ^ | 11/14/05 | Diego Vasquez

[End Times Sentinel]

Really?  I thought this would be 16.7% better.  Anyways, this whole thing was called by SUVs.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[TomGuy]

I've noticed this season that the major networks' lineups are so weak, they actually rerun some programs -- usually on Saturday night.

[Cicero]

The only thing you can be sure of in these ratings wars is that a worthy network will never win, because really none of the three is worth a plugged nickle.

CBS may have had a bad year with Rathergate, but that's just because they were stupid and got caught.

[DannyTN]

I really think real life has provided more disaster coverage than we care to see.

How about a mini-series that offers escapism for a change.

[Dr Snide]

Again, Hollywood has no insight into the fact that their barely concealed liberal propaganda may have turned viewers off. Hit too close to home? Please. I guarantee you if somebody in Hollywood had the guts to make a movies about killing Muslim terrorist after 9/11 where the United States was the good guy it would have made tons of money.

[sionnsar]

I don't watch TV. How wretched was it?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I think enough people saw that crappy "Day After Tomorrow" flick to know that this was the same recycled garbage.

[eastsider]

It was beyond wretched.

[TomGuy]

I don't watch it, but I noticed from previews that last week Commander in Chief was a White House rocked by scandal and this week the Prez gets a video that could destroy her enemy.

Maybe CiC is more like a Hilliary Clinton presidency than we realize.

lol.

[NewMediaFan]

CBS third with a 2.9 for “60 Minutes.”

ha ha, they're irrelevant

[Red Badger]

I live on the Gulf Coast. I don't need a show about my reality.........

[wbill]

CBS third with a 2.9 for “60 Minutes".

From the commercials that aired during football, it looked like they were going to do a piece on Domestic Environmental Terrorists.

I skipped it. Anyone see it, though? Was it a canonization of them? "Valiant Freedom Fighters, standing up to evil corporations...." and so forth. Or would even CBS have the chutzpah to pull that one off?

[Red Badger]

How about a mini-series that offers escapism for a change.

......like ROOTS........

[Semper Paratus]

Last nights Rome featured a gladiator fight that should retire all other gladiator fight scenes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And I thought the problem was that the show simply stunk. I watched little bits and pieces, it looked like something I might film in my back yard, if I was a lunatic.

"Hey, lets turn off the power in DC, that will lower the temperature and kill the storm. Yea, that's the ticket"

[NewMediaFan]

I skipped it. Anyone see it, though?

No, I rarely tune in to that show anymore. The Bucs-Redskins finale on Fox was too good to pass up. What a finish!

[KarlInOhio]

They have been advertising the hell out of it the past few weeks during football (which is about the only time I'm not recording to watch later and skip commercials). It looked horrendously dull. I would have rooted for the storm if I had watched it. CBS couldn't have saved it even by renaming it CSI:Category 7.

[wbill]

Yup, an Alstott 2-pt conversion to win the game beats an Andy Rooney Rant any day of the week. Great game, even if I was rooting for the Skins to win.