For some reason, CBS has brought back..

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

So yeah. The show that should have never been made in the first place last year and got "cancelled" is back, tonight at 8 on CBS...

 

I think Im going to go throw my TV out the window now.

 

Thats all.

[Guest Lethargic]

Crap like this is why the summer season needs to be gone. Just let the good shows go year round. They can have a month off here and a month off there, but taking the whole summer off is just terrible. As soon as the TV season ends, viewers flood to the cable channels so the networks pull out every stupid idea they have just to have some sort of new programming instead of repeats because they're so desperate to get viewers. All these idiotic sitcoms that weren't good enough 8 months ago are on now and all these stupid idiotic reality shows are taking over everything. Be gone with them. Wanna keep viewers? Keep the shows that we want to watch on. Simple.

[Guest bob_barron]

Didn't Baby Bob actually do pretty well in the ratings?

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Didn't Baby Bob actually do pretty well in the ratings?

I don't know, but I can only assume that it didn't since it was cancelled.

 

Its kind of sad that they cancel the good shows and they never come back, but they can cancel pieces of crap like Baby Bob and have them come back..

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Baby Bob was never cancelled, it was put on hiatus. The episodes they are showing now are ones made during the original airing of the series, but never shown. They figured that the shelf life of such a show was small, so if they used it as soley a summer show it might do better and they could also switch babies after awhile and people hopefully wouldn't notice since the program was only one for three or four months out of the year. And Bob is correct, it did very well in the ratings in its original run.

 

As for keeping prime time shows on year round, it would be impossible. For one, costs would be astronomical, two, the writing would most likely suffer, and three, most stars would refuse to work year round. That's why a lot of actors like prime time t.v. work, it's like being a teacher where you get your summers off.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

I've put some thought into what the worst show on television was (at least in my lifetime) and the answer I came up with was Baby Bob. The ratings it did were halfway between baffling and disturbing.

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

But there's a talking baby on it . . . How could it miss?

[Guest wrestlingbs]

But there's a talking baby on it . . . How could it miss?

Are you talking about the Anna Nicole Smith show?

[Guest wwF1587]

But there's a talking baby on it . . . How could it miss?

Are you talking about the Anna Nicole Smith show?

no this baby is NOT a fat ugly whore... its actually an acceptable looking baby... that looks kinda odd when he talks....

[Guest El Satanico]

I also agree that having shows on year long would be an awful idea. The drop in quality alone makes it a terrible idea.

 

 

However, they could consider the summer season as a seperate entity and have different shows for summer and fall/winter. Some channels have started doing this, with NBC leading the charge. Within three years every channel will have summer exclusive programming.

 

In a perfect world shipping a show down to summer programming would be an alternative to cancelling good shows. In the real world summer programming will be shows that cost the Networks very little money and pack what they believe to be instant ratings.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

The only times I turn into the networks were for Buffy, Angel, and occasionally Smallville. Otherwise, I'm always on cable.

[Guest Lethargic]

Why would there be any chance at all in quality? I am not saying to do new shows every week all year long. I mean they could do the same amount of episodes year as they do now, maybe add 3 or 4, the summer break would just be spread out throughout the rest of the year in smaller doses, a month long break here and there and not every show would break at the same time.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

They do that now Lethargic, that's why you get weeks of repeats in January and April heading into sweeps.