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   "Mac Breck"  wrote in message   
   news:uY2dnVRUXb5cXI_WnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@supernews.com...   
   > Dragon Lady wrote:   
   > > "Obveeus"  wrote in message   
   > > news:hbpjjh$kqo$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > >>   
   > >> "Dragon Lady"  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> "Obveeus"  wrote:   
   > >>>> Certainly, 'the masses' saw Star Trek TOS as a piece of hoakie   
   > >>>> garbage and rejected it when it first aired, even moreso than   
   > >>>> Enterprise when it first aired.   
   > >>   
   > >>> Careful, your ignorance is showing.   
   > >>   
   > >> Star Trek was a ratings failure, so yes, it was soundly rejected by   
   > >> 'the masses' when it first aired.   
   > >>   
   > > Actually, Star Trek was popular enough to get reinstated for a third   
   > > season because they got so many complaints when it was cancelled.   
   > > However, TPTB were determined to cancel it, so they scheduled it   
   >   
   > , the mostly _awful_ third season,   
   >   
   >   
   > > for a time when most of the audience could not be up to watch it.   
   >   
   > Heh, I wonder if the decendents of the 1960s TPTB at NBC went on to work   
   > for FOX and/or TNT in the 1990s.  :-P   
      
   Nope. It's just the very first thing they learn in their "Scheduling for TV"   
   courses:   
      
         Once a show becomes popular, move it to a late night timeslot.   
      
   Here in New Zealand these same morons at TVNZ have often moved shows like   
   Stargate and Smallville into timeslots around 10:30pm or later on a weekday.   
   Then of course they simply drop the show completely claiming that the   
   "number of viewers" don't make it worthwhile ... well, duh!!   
      
   There is one free-to-air network (now owned by SkyTV) that still has people   
   with brains in the scheduling department. They have shows like Stargate:   
   Atlantis (wer on the final season now), Doctor Who, etc. in proper timeslots   
   that finish by 9:30pm.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)