Thanks to LAWard for sending this in!<\/p>\n
From tvguide online:<\/p>\n
Jumping Ship?
\nRight Shows, Wrong Networks<\/p>\nBy Matt Roush<\/p>\n
When I heard that Sabrina, the Teenage Witch was leaving ABC for WB next
\nseason, it made perfect sense. ABC\ufffds “TGIF” franchise is fading, and Sabrina
\nwill be right at home on the teencentric network, where that coven of Charmed
\ncuties thrives. But this jump got me thinking about the unhappy fate this
\nyear of several critically championed but ratings-poor series, any of which
\nmight have fared better had they aired on different networks. This applies
\nmost notably to ABC\ufffds unhappily-on-hiatus Sports Night, whose production
\nexecutives have said they would eagerly shop the show to NBC or HBO, if ABC
\npasses.<\/p>\nForget HBO, which isn\ufffdt likely to pick up any network\ufffds castoffs. But NBC
\ncould be a much happier home for this offbeat comedy-drama, which, like NBC\ufffds
\nfreshman hit The West Wing, is written by the prolifically entertaining Aaron
\nSorkin. Besides, NBC\ufffds comedies (such as Frasier and Will & Grace) tend to be
\nmore sophisticated than ABC\ufffds broader offerings, such as Sports Night\ufffds more
\npopular but incompatible companion show, Dharma & Greg. NBC had its own
\nill-fated underdog in the endearing Freaks and Geeks, an unsentimental \ufffd80s
\nWonder Years about the runts and punks who dwell in the unpopular margins of
\nhigh school. This show might still be alive if it had aired on Fox, which
\nnurtured That \ufffd70s Show into a modest hit and has had miserable luck with its
\nown new dramas. Plus, the network is losing many of its signature hours:
\n90210, Party of Five, maybe even The X-Files as we know it.<\/p>\nThis network would also be an appropriate venue for Roswell \ufffd which,
\nironically, Fox initially developed \ufffd if WB chooses not to renew this
\naddictive hybrid of teen romance and sci-fi thriller. (Friday, where The
\nX-Files once flourished, is wide open.) As for Fox\ufffds most notorious failure,
\nthe caustic Hollywood satire Action, it should never have escaped HBO, where
\nit was originally intended. On pay-cable, Action might have looked like a
\nsubversive hit, but on Fox, where battles were often fought over its racy
\ncontent, it was doomed. Their loss, no one\ufffds gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to LAWard for sending this in! From tvguide online: Jumping Ship? Right Shows, Wrong Networks By Matt Roush When<\/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":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}