I wish NBC would return to repurposing Jay Leno shows by rerunning them one week later at 3 am (and clear out Poker After Dark, one of the least interesting programs in network broadcast history). I do think that those who are waiting for NBC to restore conventional primetime to the 10 pm hour are waiting in vain. As the most negative result so far is the diminished leadin to local news, it's much more likely that NBC will eventually allow affiliates to move the late news to 10 and delay Jay Leno to 10.30 or 10.35. Lowering half of the advertising minutes from primetime to fringe rates should still leave NBC more profitble in the 10-11.35 pm time period than reverting to the old primetime model.
On Dec 21, 4:28 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Mark J., to Jeff M, TVG and PGage: > > > And on Thursday night this week Leno is pre-empted for "It's a > > > Wonderful Life." I assume Friday will be a rerun. > > > > Haven't checked to see if he's getting pre-empted on NYE or New Year's > > > Day--does NBC have any bowl games this year? > > > Eve: First part of a two-part show from The Tool (11pm news in the > > middle); tape on the left coast. > > > Day: new show per Zap2it. > > > They lost the (delivery company) Orange Bowl a few years ago to Fox. > > I will be interested to see how Leno's numbers do in reruns. > > It looks like there will be relatively few Leno reruns at all - so far I > have only been able to find early intentions of "46-48" weeks of original > episodes. That means he will be off the air 4-6 weeks this year, and > apparently two of those weeks will be for the Olympics, leaving only 2-4 > weeks for NBC to find Leno replacements. I still have not found if the plan > is for Leno repeats during these weeks, or other programming. The danger of > other programming of course is that it might do as well or better than first > run Leno; the danger of Leno repeats is that they might do so poorly that > even NBC-conomics can't rationalize them. I suspect that they would be able > to cobble together 1 or 2 weeks of Leno with his biggest guests to maybe > limp through. If his Christmas re-run holds a decent percentage of his usual > Friday audience (appropriately corrected for lower total viewership) then > they might be more willing to try this. I think they will be better off > trying specials and other programming, with an eye of course towards finding > a show they could use to cut Leno down to 3 or 4 nights per week next season > (maybe some kind of adult game or competition show that started on Monday > and ended on Friday - perhaps involving a pool of mature women and young > men). -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
