{"id":280,"date":"2000-03-04T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2000-03-04T16:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-07-01T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T16:14:39","slug":"future-shock-for-ratings-weaklings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/03\/future-shock-for-ratings-weaklings\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Shock for Ratings Weaklings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to adfeagin for sending this in!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From Entertainment Weekly, March 10<\/p>\n<p>On the Air<br \/>\n<strong>The latest news from the TV Beat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Lynette Rice<\/p>\n<p>Future Shock<\/p>\n<p>With Three months left in the TV season, it&#8217;s time for the networks to start weeding out their ratings weaklings. Shows on the proverbial bubble include CBS&#8217;s Martial Law, Chicago Hope, and Early Edition; The WB&#8217;s Zoe&#8230;, Mission Hill, and Roswell; Fox&#8217;s Party of Five, Time of Your Life, and Family Guy; UPN&#8217;s Shasta (big surprise), and NBC&#8217;s Suddenly Susan and Veronica&#8217;s closet (a source says NBC is already considering Closet&#8217;s Daryl Mitchell for other projects). A top 10 adults 18-49 ranking won&#8217;t guarantee the laugh-free Stark Raving Mad a second season&#8211;it still drops 21 percent from its Frasier lead-in. And critical acclaim may not save NBC&#8217;s slot-hopping Freaks and Geeks. &#8220;It&#8217;s already been given two time periods,&#8221; says media analyst Tim Spengler. &#8220;The younger [viewers] NBC wanted have made their decision.&#8221; Most of ABC&#8217;s dogs (Wasteland, Odd Man Out, It&#8217;s like, you know&#8230;) were axed early on and replaced with trusty backup Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Still, the net&#8217;s bland Two Guys and a Girl is more likely to return than the struggling Sports Night. At least Aaron Sorkin&#8217;s The West Wing is still flying high on NBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to adfeagin for sending this in! From Entertainment Weekly, March 10 On the Air The latest news from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}