Friday, April 28, 2006

too many (R) in tv listings

given the apparent increase of repeats, fillers, clips shows and/or pre-emptions dominating tv schedules, sites like is lost a repeat? are inevitable.

the cable model of ~13 episode seasons and/or split uninterrupted seasons, appears to provide consistently better shows like monk, battlestar galactica, nip/tuck, the shield. however since

la weekly chronicles the behind-the-scenes demise/rebirth of the upn-wb merged cw, touching on some of the shortfalls of broadcast tv. the model works when things are going well--like abc right now, not so much when it doesn't--like the struggling netlets. unlike cable channels which also derive some revenue from subscriber fees, the main source of revs for the networks is the broadcasts and re-airings

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