{"id":382,"date":"2000-04-04T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2000-04-04T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=382"},"modified":"2008-07-02T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:25:48","slug":"saving-your-favorite-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/04\/saving-your-favorite-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving your Favorite Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Chaz for sending this in!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Rosenthal, TV critic wrote an article on March 31 about ideas to save your favorite show. It is kind of a satirical look at it. You can read the whole article here.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Saving your favorite show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 31, 2000<\/p>\n<p>BY PHIL ROSENTHAL TELEVISION CRITIC<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m worried about &#8220;Sports Night&#8221; on ABC but holding out hope that NBC or HBO will pick it up. I&#8217;m also ticked at NBC for giving up on &#8220;Freaks and Geeks&#8221; and wish either the WB or Fox would take a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re anxious about the WB&#8217;s &#8220;Roswell,&#8221; which is on the bubble. Perhaps you&#8217;re concerned about &#8220;Diagnosis: Murder&#8221; or &#8220;Chicago Hope&#8221; expiring on CBS. How about the new &#8220;Wonderland&#8221; on ABC?<\/p>\n<p>Anybody give a hoot about Jennifer Love Hewitt and her troubled &#8220;Time of Your Life&#8221;? (Hmmm. Just as I suspected.)<\/p>\n<p>Look, you know what you care about.<\/p>\n<p>So you know what you have to do.<\/p>\n<p>You need to make network executives care about what you care about&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And a portion of the suggested letter:<\/p>\n<p>Dear High-Powered Network Executive:<br \/>\nI was enjoying this new brand of beer I&#8217;ve never tried before while taking a break from surfing the Net (looking for just the right second car for me and the new spouse to buy with the windfall we made on our recent dot-com IPO) when I had realized just how picky I&#8217;ve gotten about what I watch on TV.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m worried about .<\/p>\n<p>This fine television series is one of the few shows I make sure I watch each week. It needs to be on your network next season.<\/p>\n<p>It speaks to me, and all my affluent twentysomething and thirtysomething friends.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Chaz for sending this in! Phil Rosenthal, TV critic wrote an article on March 31 about ideas to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[118],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-save-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}