Another common time for syndicated sitcoms was 11:00 x is your sense that this is disappearing too?
One factor of course is that a lot of the old workhorse sitcoms are streaming (Big Bang, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Seinfeld, Friends, Frazier, Cheers, MASH; I Love Lucy is on Paramount+). Abbott is on Hulu, so even if it gets to 100 may not change much. I stopped watching sitcoms in syndication even when they were still common once I could get boxed sets on DVD, as I was frustrated with being forced to watch episodes out of order, and often badly hacked to get in more commercials. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 9:12 AM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > For quite a few years now, it was guaranteed that in the two hours before > prime time you could turn to your local independent/Fox/UPN/WB/CW/MyTV > station and get an alternative to news, celebrity gossip, Pat and Vanna and > Alex in the form of syndicated reruns of sitcoms--the good, the bad and the > mediocre. > > Well, in Chicago at least that's not the case anymore. As new syndicated > shows start to pop up this week, the only station where you can watch a > sitcom at dinnertime is Weigel's CW affil WCIU, where you can watch "The > Neighborhood" at 6 and 6:30 p.m. As if you wanted to watch it first run on > CBS Monday nights. The 5 p.m. hour on "CW 26" is filled with "Judge Judy" > reruns (as you may know, her first-run judging is now on Amazon's Freevee > streamer). > > Well, what's on the other non-Big 3 station? On Nexstar indie WGN, it's > two hours of news, as it has been for many years now. On Fox's WFLD, it's > an hour of news at 5 and an hour of "Family Feud" at 6 p.m.--they didn't > renew for "Big Bang Theory" and WGN picked it up for prime time. And on > sister station MyTV affil WPWR, it's *another* hour of "Family Feud" at 5 > p.m. (seems to me Debmar-Mercury feeds six "Feud" episodes a day) and two > new game shows from Fox First Run at 6 (they both ran test shows either > last year or earlier this year): "Person, Place or Thing," a not-bad > update of "20 Questions" appealingly fronted by Melissa Peterman, and "Who > the Bleep is That?", a celebrity identification game produced by Fox-owned > TMZ, which may be all you need to know. > > Of course, with the changes afoot in television lately, it seems unlikely > that there will be more shows coming down the pike to get to the 100 > episode number, although "The Conners" will probably make it (and what are > they going to do with those first season episodes with Roseanne Barr?) and > those involved are rooting for "Ghosts" and "Abbott Elementary"--and also, > the stations seem to prefer multi-cams to one-camera shows--good luck on > that. > > The Fox-owned stations seem to think that the future is in game shows, I > guess with "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel" going through the host changes recently > and next year,the fact that "Modern Family" and "The Simpsons" are their > only remaining sitcoms and Disney will probably want more money to renew > them--along with "Feud" and the two new shows, they've picked up reruns of > Game Show Network's "People Puzzler" (based on the crossword puzzle for > idiots in People magazine) and in-house "25 Words or Less" and in-house-CBS > Media's "Pictionary" continue (but Big Jaw's reboot of "You Bet Your Life" > isn't, presumably because of Leno's recent accidents). And you'll find > sitcom reruns in late-night against the talk shows--oh shoot, there's > another dying genre. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6c4f5f08-392e-47b2-a6b4-7ff44c748ad8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6c4f5f08-392e-47b2-a6b4-7ff44c748ad8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKbVmDNTy0gO8-uRU-ueg4y4ZW22p6Tie7k2VCf6CK0mA%40mail.gmail.com.
