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CW Cancels MRC Sundays!! Will Substitute Repeats Of JERICHO And DREW CAREY SHOW!!
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The CW is dumping all of its MRC Sunday-night shows, including “In Harm’s Way,” “Valentine” and “Easy Money,” in favor of old movies and repeats of “Jericho” and “The Drew Carey Show.”
The decision was detailed in a Thursday memo from CW COO John Maatta to affiliates:
“As you know, to focus our efforts on the earlier part of the week, we entered into a time buy agreement with an outside supplier to program Sunday night. While this move has clearly paid dividends for the overall schedule, the results on Sunday night have been below expectations. The MRC shows are simply not working. To that end, we have made a business and programming decision to protect our network and your local interests on Sunday for the remainder of the season.”
Find all of Broadcasting and Cable’s story on the matter here.
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“As you know, to focus our efforts on the earlier part of the week, we entered into a time buy agreement with an outside supplier to program Sunday night. While this move has clearly paid dividends for the overall schedule, the results on Sunday night have been below expectations. The MRC shows are simply not working. To that end, we have made a business and programming decision to protect our network and your local interests on Sunday for the remainder of the season.”
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No one cares!
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Well, about "Jericho", anyway.
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Reruns!
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Something tells me I'm not missing anything.
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Nov 20, 2008 3:39:17 PM CST
Now WPIX can go back to being "New York's Movie Station"...
by mr. profit
I remember being a kid and growing up watching Channel 11 on Saturday and Sunday and being entertained by the movies they played. And then when "Shocktober" rolled along I was even happier because I love horror films. Now that MRC isn't programming on Sunday, maybe the local affiliates can go back to regaining control.
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one step closer to ridding the world of gossip girl.
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but i can hope.
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Reruns? Why not bring back Reaper early and commission a few more scripts to get through the season.
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That's an interesting decision considering the lack of ratings that Jericho got on a full-fledged network. If they wanted to go back to the vault to show something, why not pick repeats of a previously-successful show?
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Any tri-state folks here that remember the "video game" WPIX had on in the afternoons during their commercial breaks that you could call into the channel and play on air? PIX! PIX!
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and stayed on the air for first run episodes. Instead, it gets canceled to make room for Viva Laughlin.
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That and the unexpected Magic Garden revival are making me feel truly old.
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I remember those pix games. It was essentially an Intellivision game being played by someone in the studio, and when the caller wanted to fire he would say 'PIX' and the guy in the studio would press the button. Needless to say there was often a lag, but I always loved watching that crap. PIX used to be the coolest station in New York. Repeats of Abbot and Costello on Sunday mornings, the Three Stooges, Honeymooners and Odd Couple at 11pm...ahh memories. I would love it if they went old school.
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I am from Albany and we got cable in 1978 and all through my childhood we had 5, 9, and 11 from NY (as well as 38 from Boston) on our cable box.
I totally remember. Those kids had no timing. It was just pixpixpixpixpix. -
Thats what the CW gets for canceling Veronica Mars.
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how bout canceling the other 6 nites. tyvm.
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I swear if anyone at the CW even has a passing thought about doing something with Supernatural other than renewing it, I will kick their ass.
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sigh
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If only we could have kept more people watching! We'd be watching the Second Civil War story arc right about now.
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except for Supernatural, which does not suck.
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what the fuck is an MRC?
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named Kristen Bell? If there's ever a time to give "Veronica Mars" a better finish, it's now.
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Nov 20, 2008 9:11:41 PM CST
Maybe if they promoted anything else but Gossip Girl and 9021Blo
by grendel25
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MRC?? My retarded channel?
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Some sort of independent television production company.
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Rights with an "s".
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Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like they've captured the meaning of the creative spirit with that name.
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So they essentially farmed out an entire night to an outside production company, presumably to go cheap, and still can't make it work? Jericho must be *really* cheap in syndication.
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I never even heard of any of this.
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Hear, hear for the liberation of WPIX. For that matter, WLVI 56 and TV38 in Boston both need saving, too. All three of those stations, along with the "'Yor: Hunter from the Future" on endless repeat'" WWOR in New Jersey were the greatest stations growing up. TV38 had the fantastic Movie Loft and of course WLVI had the legendary Saturday afternoon "Creature Double Feature".
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Though in WPIX's defense, it's my understanding that they've brought the Yule Log back. Hopefully whoever took it off the air to begin with is roasting on a yule log in hell as we speak.
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...The Dr. Doom af dramatic series television. (It can NEVER just die!)
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Nor should it. Damn good show.
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Sounded kinda lame and skipped it. Actually watched the last episode, though, and it seemed mildly interesting. Haephaestus and Ares scheming against each other, Aphrodite trying to get a divorce, Eros with a semi-automatic version of his bow & arrows, hints of some Big Bad with a god-killing sword... The actual romance/A plot was blehh, although it had David Burke (The Tick - Mothman) in it with a pretty skanky ex. I'd probably have actually tuned in for another episode. Now, if only they had a decent name for it: what does "Valentine" have to do with Greek gods? Although I suppose most other titles might have sounded like an extended sodomy joke.
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More like media sucks capitol. Having one show get canceled sucks, but your entire block getting the axe has got to sting like a bitch.
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didn't they already know they'd be getting shitty programming when they became CW affiliates? And now they got rid of the only good show they had (Easy Money).
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They fucking killed Veronica those fucking fucks....FUCK
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seems like a legit cancellation
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