• Odo@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yup, Fox. They helpfully put it on Friday evenings when no one was watching, and preempted it for baseball half the time too.

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        2 months ago

        Well the gag was “if all of those shows get cancelled then maybe we have a chance to return”

        Not a judgement on quality just saying what all was cancelled in between family guy runs.

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          I think “terrific shows” was supposed to be facetious, as most of those are not terrific shows. I think the gag was “they cancelled us to make way for all of this bullshit nobody liked.”

          Which tbf fits their modus operandi, they cancelled King of the Hill 4 episodes early to run the fucking cleveland show.

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      2 months ago

      This was Family Guy’s best joke.

      (I’m not a huge fan of the show, they have some great jokes, like this one, but overall I just don’t find it that funny.)

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    2 months ago

    So that was Kimmel. I wished they would do the same for Colbert. But I get the feeling at this point Colbert wouldn’t accept it, and would leave anyway.

    Such a shame. What a shitshow.

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      2 months ago

      The issue with Colbert is that economics is part of the reason why CBS cancelled the Late Show.

      I’m sure that getting rid of the show to give Trump a favor was a plus, but late night television has seen audiences drop for decades. It is made even worse as video podcasts are taking up a lot of the role that late night talk shows used to take and are now popular enough that they are giving out awards for them.

      I also don’t think that Paramount was as strategic about Colbert as Disney was with Kimmel or NBC is with Fallon. Disney commonly uses Kimmel as a way to promote other Disney IP. NBC now uses the Tonight Show as an extension of SNL to promote writing talent before they move on to different shows. In contrast, Colbert doesn’t really have any big clips with Star Trek actors.

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    2 months ago

    They cancel 20 shows to activate stagnant viewers of 2-3 of them, then they reactivate those 3 so those fervent viewers resuscribe.

    That “lose a few billion” is fake, that’s a stock market decrease, which does recover. People who actually unsubscribe come back when the shows reactivate, mostly.