And AMC's response that the studios were overcharging them for movie rights and that if they remained commercial-free, their subscriber fees would be up there with ESPN. And to sell ads, you had to get the demos down--fact of life in television.
And to get personal, to me Bob Dorian always felt to me more like a guy who was likable but just reading off the prompter what Norm Blumenthal wrote. I've never had that feeling with Robert Osborne (and to me, TCM's programming for film lovers has always appealed more to me than AMC's nostalgia-mongering in their early days). Besides, I have the feeling a lot of the old-school AMC hardcores look at a "Mad Men" or a "Walking Dead" and think "immoral deviant Hollyweird." And that they shared most of their viewing with Fox News Channel. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, K.M. Richards <richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you will find, upon closer investigation, that most of the old > movie fans' complaints revolve around three specific changes made over the > past several years at AMC: > > > - Commercialization (especially spacing of breaks at such short > intervals that the breaks seem longer than the content between them); > - Abandonment of the classic movies which made up the entirety of > AMC's schedule for the first couple of decades (even though a lot of them > were B-grade two-reelers); and > - Removal of Bob Dorian, who was the long time on-air host (for those > unfamiliar with Mr. Dorian, think Robert Osborne without the smugness). > > TV Land's only change is going from full-on retro when it started to > "greatest hit sitcoms of the 1990s and 2000s" now. Given that there is > nothing I would call "classic" on their prime-time schedule, it doesn't > surprise me that their audience accepts original programs as if they were > just another off-network rerun. > > The only retro classic shows on their schedule now are Gunsmoke, > Gilligan's Island, Andy Griffith, Bonanza, Brady Bunch, and all of those > are in the daytime. Come 6:00pm, it's Everybody Loves Raymond. > > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:10:18 PM UTC-7, Mark Jeffries wrote: >> >> I find it interesting that there are not classic TV fans complaining >> about original series on TVL, considering that there are still some >> articles on AMC out there that have old movie fans complaining about the >> current version of the channel. >> > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
