I have not watched an entire show as of yet. Jay should try cable.He's getting lost in the Tonight Show,Late Show,Jimmy Kimmel,Carson Daily, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman maze after 11:30 pm .
________________________________ From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: SciFiNoir2 <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 3:12:09 PM Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Does NBC's Huge Pilot Order Spell Trouble For Jay? That's what the word was when he left the Tonight Show, initially. Money talks, I guess. And I won't say that he's done for entirely. From what I've seen of this stellar lineup NBC's concocted, I don't give ninety percent of the lot six months. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik ________________________________ To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:20:52 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Does NBC's Huge Pilot Order Spell Trouble For Jay? Wasn't there talk that Jay was going to be retiring soon? He has to go take care of his massive car collection / museum. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> wrote: > > >UPDATE: Verne Gay over at Newsday, who has followed the minutiae of the TV >business far longer than I have, furthers this theory: that NBC will bump Leno >on Thursdays and Fridays, and that a show like NBC’s planned remake of >“Rockford Files” would only be suitable in a 10 p.m. weekday slot.) >At least one of my 2010 media predictions came true before I even wrote it — >in one of those headlines that got lost in the holiday shuffle, NBC is indeed >producing a lot more pilots for the 2010-11 TV season, 18 in fact. If you’re >keeping score, that’s more pilots than the network has produced since 2003. >But according to president of primetime entertainment Angela Bromstad, the >huge ramping up of pilot production — last year the network produced only 11 — >has nothing to do with the tepid ratings of the 10 p.m. weeknight “Jay Leno >Show” which I’ve predicted won’t last until next year at this time. No, no. >Instead Bromstad told Bloomberg that having Leno eat up five hours during the >week will allow her to spend more time thinking about the 10 [weekday] hours >from 8 to 10. “We have so many holes that we have to essentially rebuild the >schedule. Not having the additional five hours has certainly relieved some of >the pressure,” she said. >Please, readers, take that with a grain of salt. >It seems like ordering so many pilots (NBC plans to produce 10 one-hour dramas >and eight 30-minute sitcoms), just might leave it with some additional wiggle >room if it decides to deep-six the “Leno” show, which seems a likelihood not >only because of the show’s ratings but because of the unfortunate ripple >effect the show has had on local news and the network’s late-night schedule. >While the chances of any pilot making it on air are very low, and there’s of >course an even lower chance that a show will actually catch on, consider the >following: NBC is ordering up enough pilots to fill the 8 to 10 slot almost >one and a half times if the entire current schedule were to be obliterated. >While that may be tempting to some who are sick of NBC’s seven-year ratings >decline — not even counting this season — shows like “The Office“, “Biggest >Loser” and “Law and Order” aren’t going anywhere. (Actually, Bromstad has >already confirmed “Law and Order” isn’t going anywhere next season.) >I’m not saying that Bromstad is exactly stretching the truth in what she said >above, but ordering up so many pilots is a great way to hedge one’s bets, and >if ever a broadcast network needed to do some hedging, it’s NBC. > >http://industry. bnet.com/ media/10005727/ nbc-is-flying- a-lot-of- pilots-is- >it-really- to-fill-up- jay-leno- airspace/ ?utm_source= >feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed%3A+bnet% 2Fmedia+% >28BNET+Industrie s+-+Media+ Insights% 29&utm_content= Google+Reader > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/ ________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
