Subject: Re: ABC did not kill Twin Peaks
From: dmerrill@hpdtczb.HP.COM (David Merrill)
Date: 1991-05-17, 11:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >one of their best slots.  Missing shows around Christmas was again a
> >result of the serial nature of Twin Peaks, not because ABC didn't like
> >the show; you can't go back and fill in with some of the best shows if
> >each show depends on the previous.  Finally, moving the show to Thrusday
> >nights at 9 didn't help much, as anyone might expect.

> >I think what really killed Twin Peaks was its serial nature -- just
> >didn't fit television's schedule -- and the ambivalent artistic

Then what about NBC's "LA Law"?  It also has a very serial nature, and
misses a week here and there -- something that is to be expected in 
such shows.  So you see a rerun once in a while.  Big deal.  Sure, a lot
of people will turn the channel when they realize that they've already
seen this episode, but such is the case with any TV show.


Dave