TV Networks Fret as Midseason Shows Fail to Connect With Viewers

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 3/17/2017 | Micahel O'Connell

[covertInLA]

Mark Harmon get 500k+ per episode, plus points. I just binged watched it. Nearly starved.

[treetopsandroofs]

“How do you find programs on you tube?”

I was stuck in the hospital for weeks a couple years ago and found full episodes of just about any black and white old sitcom I could think of, especially many of their pilot episodes. Lots of movies, too, if they were more than 10-15 years old, although often they were uploaded in parts.

[grania]

Nothing even remotely watchable!

Can you imagine the uproar if TV classics such as All In The Family, Hogan's Heroes, MASH, or WKRP were on the air today? With them, we laughed at stereotypes. Today's comedies instead try to educate people with politically and socially correct garbage.

Then there's the violence orgies, including the 8PM hour (remember family hour?) A crime show should primarily be about solving the crime, not glorifying its gory details.

Bull is watchable (did it survive?) Except for that I'd rather watch old shows, Great Courses, or spend more time reading. I don't think I'm alone. Lots of people prefer movies and TV that aren't telling them how to think, and they want to know something about human nature from the experience of watching it. For comedy, we just want to laugh without being judged!

[Mycroft Holmes]

Screen Sizes

With the proliferation of display devices, screens now come in a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios. The image below illustrates the range of screens possible. Differing aspect ratios are shown on the diagonal lines with the ratio in circles towards the lower right.

Given the wide variation in screen resolution and size when we step from mobi to fondleslab to display to HDTV it is lunacy to specify screen position in term of pixels. There is no way to know what sized screen you are imaging to so it is best to reference screen sizes and positions in percentages instead. The resulting size is the percentage of the width (or height) of the enclosing container. This is most useful when specifying positions and sizes of tables and images. The HTML for the image above looks like:

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Vector_Video_Standards5.svg" width="95%">

The width="95%" part sets the image width to 95% of the width of the enclosing container. We leave the height unspecified so that the computer will figure out the correct value so as not to distort the image. If you wish to distort the image you may specify a height as well.

Things that are text related, such as the whitespace around a paragraph or header and text sizes are best specified in em. One em was originally the width of an M in the current font. In a multi-lingual world where not all alphabets have an M in them, the meaning has evolved to mean the height of the current font. As the user changes the magnification on a page the size of an em changes with it. This produces a pleasing scaled effect to the eye not possible when spacing objects in pixels.

Other unit values available are in inch, cm centimeter, mm millimeter, ex x-height of a font (x-height is usually about half the font-size), pt point - 1/72 of an inch, pc pica - 12 points and px pixels - a single dot on the screen. If no units are specified pixels are used by default. Best results across the broad spectrum of displays are achieved by exclusively using em and percent to specify size and distance. Try not to do anything else.

[Rastus]

Oh, I only meant the movie. I recorded the TV show but deleted it unwatched. I just couldn’t work up the enthusiasm to push play.

[donna]

I stopped watching a few weeks ago. Anti-Israel, anti-Christian, pro-Islam, and the required gayness . . . I had to stop watching.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sweeps only apply to broadcast network shows.

Decades ago I saw an article on why disappearing/reappearing shows were a bad idea. Show has to rebuild it’s audience every season. But high ratings haven’t been the goal for years. Now it just get adequate ratings for at least 5 seasons then turn it into a DVD box set and/or a big syndication package.

[Red Badger]

Why do people pay big $$$ to get cable and satellite DISH and Direct TV, then WATCH the crap that ABCBSNBCFOX put on over the air for free?

I have Direct TV and watch almost everything other than the Free Air broadcast channels. Only for local news and weather do I watch them. There are so many really good shows that don’t get promoted in the public like they should.
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[wally_bert]

Good movie.

[x]

Gee, I wonder why that would be?

There's a lot of hype when the TV season begins. Not so much a few months later when new midseason shows start.

People aren't that much interested in new shows now, and the shows are mostly similar to the ones that are already on the air.

If networks can capitalize on that similarity by making the show a part of a franchise (CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, Chicago) people may watch. If not, they probably won't bother.

[treetopsandroofs]

I quit watching when they kicked out or killed the Israelis, gelded Tony and McGee, and brought in the idiot Bishop, who was immediately responsible for fellow agents’ deaths.

[upchuck]

Maybe folks are waking up to the fact that much of TV is crap.

Disclaimer: I don’t have a TV and haven’t watched TV since 2008.

[treetopsandroofs]

Please see my post #91.

[litehaus]

YouTube on Roku-— Why U need ROKU ??

[Rastus]

I still cut lib Mary Steenburgen some slack because of Time After Time and Back to the Future Part III.

[Sans-Culotte]

I stopped watching a few weeks ago. Anti-Israel, anti-Christian, pro-Islam, and the required gayness . . . I had to stop watching.

NCIS jumped the shark long ago. In its early years, it was quite gripping. Even if you take away the PC overtones it now has, it's a dull show. The new female cast member (not Bishop or Delilah!) is a terrible actress.

[freedom1st]

I’m waiting for the 3rd season of Better Call Saul.

[butlerweave]

TV Networks still have Shows , WOW

[treetopsandroofs]

Loved it until the events in my post #91, guess it’s been about two years. HATE what Mindy’s husband did to the show after ousting Bellisario.

[Rastus]

You can track the decline to when Donald Bellisario left. They couldn’t wait to take a hard left when he wasn’t there to rein them in.