Chris,
You asked for comments but your post is locked. Easy oversight as the default is "don't allow" and the setting is hidden in the lower left of the editor under "post options". This is less a UI than an MMI with such poor design.
At any rate, your comments were:
For my own interest, how many of you have even SEEN "Brothers & Sisters" or "Men in Trees"? I haven't seen an episode of "Dangerous Housewives" in a year, and "What about Brian" is like a castration fantasy for women.
I have seen every episode of each of those shows. Collectively, they are good, bad, and a guilty pleasure.
Brothers & Sisters sucked until Rob Lowe joined the cast. His Sam Seabornesque rendition of the junior Senator from California is a series saving performance. Now the show has recovered (from the too early demise of Tom Skerritt) to the point where it is good, solid dramedy.
Men in Trees is awful for many reasons, yet still I watch. I must chronicle this atrocity. Anne Heche (what the fuck does she need two silent e's for?) is wooden and is incapable of chemistry with a man. Dyke her up a bit and give me a few scenes with her and the woman who plays her agent and now you have a concept. I give it a another month of mediocrity before they come to her and say, "Listen honey, you sold out and faked a lesbian marriage in your real life in order to stay in the lime light because you are a no talent hack. How about you do the same thing in your professional life to keep this piece of shit on the air?"
You couldn't be more wrong with regard to What About Brian? This show is a festival of extremely high end tits and ass coupled with a plot that must have been dreamed up by developmentally delayed men. This show featured a guy getting left at the altar by attractive doctor girl. He then beds a stripper (right away), marries said stripper, cheats on her with the aforementioned doctor, divorces her and starts playing the field. Brian on the other hand is the source of the leaving at the altar, humps his way around town until he hooks up with the most insanely hot girl (who happened to have slept with his father too) and moves in with her. His former business partner, has an open marriage, sleeps with a co-worker, gets divorced and starts dating yet anotherinsanely hot girl who, oh by the way, is only 20 years old. This show is all about men living out Penthouse letters on major network prime time tv. PURE GENIUS!!!
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I have seen every single episode of every single "female-viewer" oriented ABC show. I even watched the ones they already cancelled, like 6 degrees. I have also seen every episode of every other network's television version of chick lit - including My Boys on TBS (I thought I was the only person who tivo'd this and was shocked when it got picked up for a second season) and Gilmore Girls on CW that were both mentioned in the article. My devotion to these shows is not a surprise, given that I tivo 3 hours of soaps a day. To me, it is just an extension of my stories.
However, I don't think this is a new phenomenon at all, nor one that ABC has played very adeptly. In fact, I believe that tv, like fashion, comes in decades. We are in the midst of returning to content similar to the early - mid 80s. Shows like Dallas and Dynasty that followed families and had lots of sex and money and lots of sex and money are the real precursors to the supposed house that Disney built at ABC, which was really just luck and good timing as Fox and NBC lost competing franchises. Like any other network executives, ABC execs have decided that whatever works should be duplicated as many times as possible with a slightly different locale to distract the viewers. How many shows can one network have that are female-narrated, ripe with soundtrack-moments-played-over-montage-scenes and substantive focus on the relations between men and women? At least as many as CBS has of CSIs and CSI copies, or NBC has of L&Os and L&O ripoffs.
Ah - THIS is what I have been waiting for from this Blog!
I sort of liked Men In Trees when it first came on - but it got kind of old real quick.
The other shows don't really do it for me. I haven't seen Brothers & Sisters yet with Rob Lowe. What About Brian is sort of like watching a train wreck for me. I pretty much feel uncomfortable the whole time.
Oh, and I completely agree with Allison about the TV-in-cycles theory. It's just like everything else. :)
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