Subject: Re: Twin Peaks Cancellation
From: rcj@caen.engin.umich.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1991-02-19, 19:01
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Feb19.204650.16733@riacs.edu> howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells) writes:
> >Are ABC execs as stupid as they appear to be?

You mean for letting such a low-rated show hang on week after week?
Nahh.

> >All this talk about low
> >ratings and how no one is staying home on Saturday night to watch Twin
> >Peaks... I don't know about any of you but I *never* watch TP on
> >Saturday night. I *always* watch it on Sunday afternoon or evening. This
> >is the miracle of videotape. Hasn't anybody at ABC heard of this
> >phenomena? Isn't it time the archaic ratings system was scrapped once
> >and for all? Face it, no one watches shows like TP in real time. Who
> >wants to watch a bunch of commercials?

Exactly why you don't count, John.  No one cares how many people watch
the *show*--it's how many people watch the commercials.  If you're
zapping the commercials than no one *wants* to count you.  Do you
think ABC is in this for the satisfaction of knowing they've put on a
well-made show?  No way.  (By the way, I'm one of the "no ones" who
watches TP in real time, as are most of my friends, who will no doubt
be chagrined to hear about their ceasing to exist.)

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