Thursday, March 20, 2008

From the I'm Just Saying department...

TV Land's schedule for this Saturday, beginning at noon (at least as of this post; they tinker with their schedule seemingly every day):

Noon High School Reunion
1 High School Reunion
2 Three Men and a Baby
4 Cheers
4:30 Cheers

(OK, these Cheers showings--not so bad)

5 Just Shoot Me
5:30 Just Shoot Me
6 Beetlejuice
8 High School Reunion
9 High Schol Reunion
10 High School Reunion
11 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Baby Boomers, THIS is the kind of programming that TV Land alleges you love: 5 screenings of the original/retread reality show they're cramming down your craw, two overplayed and heavily edited movies, two episodes of a mediocre sitcom that has been widely syndicated fot several years, and ending the night it's another retread reality show.

Oh, yeah, and from 4-5, two episodes of a show that actually almost fits into the original concept of TV Land.

Do Baby Boomers really like this kind of lineup? TV Land touted double-digit ratings improvements for the first episode of High School Reunion, a debut which was promoted and hyped beyond belief. Double-digit gains over what, the last crappy reality show they tried to launch on Wednesday nights?

The party line is that cable operators forced TV Land to carry originals. Hmm. Well, if that's the case, maybe TV Land should just go off the air. Seriously, if it were an option, I wouldn't pay for this garbage as part of an a la carte lineup.

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