Subject: Re: Twin Peaks Ratings From: robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus) Date: 1990-10-10, 20:44 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1990Oct10.195748.15457@zip.eecs.umich.edu> chrisl@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes: > >I heard today on the radio that ABC is contemplating moving Twin Peaks to > >Wednesday nights, which are currently rather weak (can you say "Cop Rock"?). > >I wouldn't really care too much for this change (I LIKE being able to look > >forward to Saturday nights for more than the regular reason!), but if it > >helps the show in the ratings, I guess I can't complain; better TP at a > >bad time than none at all! Amen! > >Also interesting was the comment made that a lot of TP viewers seem to be > >former Trekkies. The critic said this wasn't necessarily the case, but > >that they are certainly as fervent in their dedication, and that TP > >generates more emotional mail to him than any other show... no surprise > >there! I don't know... Twin Peaks taps into a vein of TV fanaticism very close to Trekkishness, but the shows are different enough that I'd doubt a dispro- portionately large number of Trekkies are watching. Soap operas, now, I know lots of soap watchers who've caught on. Although Twin Peaks is, I would say, weirder than Star Trek ever was, and _way_ more demented than any soap that ever was. God, what a _damn_ good show! (TV guide ad this week for Saturday nights: _Twin Peaks_: Damn good TV--and hot, too!) > >Ick. I'd rather see a mini-series or a movie (someone said Frost had said > >they'd make a movie if the second season wasn't picked up -- was this a > >made-for-TV movie, or a motion picture?). Made-for-TV movie, from everything I heard. > >Chris Lang | Univ. of Michigan Engineering | chrisl@eecs.umich.edu -- Rob Jellinghaus | "Next time you see a lie being spread or Autodesk, Inc. | a bad decision being made out of sheer robertj@Autodesk.COM | ignorance, pause, and think of hypertext." {decwrl,uunet}!autodesk!robertj | -- K. Eric Drexler, _Engines of Creation_