Subject: Re: TP: Return to Thursday confirmed
From: sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate)
Date: 1991-03-11, 06:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

joe@zitt (Joe Zitt) writes:

> >jgp@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Pellmann) writes:
> >(quoting from an Associated Press article)

>> >> "They're determined to kill the show," said David Marans, a senior researcher
>> >> for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency.  "While pulling it out of that
>> >> nowhere slow on Saturday, the lead-in of 'The Father Dowling Mysteries' is
>> >> almost as incompatibile a program as they have."

> >Say what?  Most Thursday nights I get together with friends and watch The 
> >Simpsons, the second half of Father Dowling, and Gabriel's Fire. These 
> >folks are also Peaks freaks, so it looks like all our TV watching will be 
> >neatly packaged into one evening.

> >It is happening again.      It is happening again.      It is happening again.
> >Joe Zitt ...cs.utexas.edu!kvue!zitt!joe (512)450-1916


Am I the only person here who is noticing the odd timing of the TP return?

Consider that, starting this week and continuing into the first few days of
April is the NCAA Basketball Tournament, telecast by CBS.  A lot of the games
are scheduled deliberately on Thursdays, because this is a VERY good way for
CBS to break the NBC stranglehold on Thursday nights.  Bringing TP back during
this mess would be an error.  Not only will NBC's formidable lineup be showing,
but CBS will be running the NCAA Tournament.  I agree with the reviewer who
says that they are trying to kill the show.  Putting it up against one of the
top 5 TV sporting events in the country is SUICIDE!


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