"Valentine" and "Easy Money," the two scripted series produced by Media Rights Capital airing as part of The CW's Sunday night timebuy deal made by MRC, are both on a four-to-six-week production hiatus after ratings for the MRC block in its first two weeks were worse than the CW's own lackluster programming efforts last year:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ibc7ed676383467c2e7c15e9a3c26812e MRC controls the whole 5 to 10 p.m. block (including that pre-prime time block known in the WB years as "EasyView")--its other programs in the block are the Canadian celeb travelogue "4Real" at 5 p.m. and the reality series "In Harm's Way" at 6 and 7 p.m.--Since, as far as we know, the only programming MRC has in the hopper is the Bob Saget sitcom "Surviving Suburbia," which was supposed to be part of the block but put on hold, one wonders if at the very least they'll give back the "EasyView" hours to the affiliates or pull the plug on the entire block, which would probably end up in The CW giving it back to the affiliates, who might go the cheap-but-profitable route on TV's second most-watched night and put in infomercials and paid religion in prime time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
