I saw this commercial during the Sunday afternoon coverage (after the Olympics, during the cross country marathon on the West Coast). Maybe they have been running it all week, but it is the first time I have seen it.
I like this ad from NBC's POV - they have been pumping these shows for the last two weeks (especially the two new ones) and now they put them into a frame for people to find them (L&O Mothership Monday; SVU Tuesday; Parenthood Wednesday; Seinfeld Marriage Show (whatever its called) Thursday; Dateline Friday). I think their intro is something like "After the Olympics, 10:00 gets more colorful". I don't quite get the color tie in (is that a play on the old NBC peacock?) except right after they say that they do show the black guy from L&O. I take it this is a way to avoid saying "Come back to NBC at 10:00, we are trying again". People were saying that NBC could not contract Leno to 3 nights a week (much less cancel him) because they had nothing else to put on, but I never believed that, and I think this line-up is already better than 5 nights of Leno. I think in April they bring back FNL (I am not sure how or if that impacts this line up). Not that anything will change for me personally. I have already decided to never watch the Seinfeld program, and I won't watch Parenthood unless people whose opinion I respect (including many on this list) start raving about it. I get whatever I thought I might like from Parenthood already from Modern Family, and, I suspect, with a lot less earnest preachy-ness. Plus Ed O'Neill instead of the never likable Craig T Nelson, two hot mamas, two funny gay guys, and three children who pull off the near impossible of not being obnoxious TV kids (I can't believe the same will be able to be said about the kids and adolescents on Parenthood). I haven't watched SVU since season 2, and I always TiVo L&O whereever it lands, and I almost never watch Dateline. I will be consuming 1 hour of NBC per week at the 10:00 hour - though that is close to 1 hour more than I watched through most of the Leno Experiment. I suspect most of these programs will do better than Leno, but not spectacularly better - Dateline and Seinfeld probably don't have to do much better, SVU was doing great at 10:00 before Leno almost killed it, and L&O will be on NBC regardless through next season. Parenthood is the real test for NBC - but even if it fails, the point will be that they can't even hope to win if they don't play, and at least now they are back in the game. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
