As a network abandons a niche, somebody else will come in who's very hungry and at the back of the pack to try to fill that niche. I'd predict that there will be more cultural channels bubbling up. |
He never aspired to be Hamlet, |
He was a class act and a reassuring person delivering the news. You felt like he knew what he was talking about. |
High culture has never had much of a place on American television. |
I would argue that while there hasn't been that kind of breakthrough series this year, cable has continued to grow nevertheless. Eventually they'll have to come up with something fresh. |
In 1961, Jackie Gleason, who was then at the height of his fame, premiered a game show called 'You're in the Picture.' It was so bad that Gleason came back the next week, sat down on a stool on a bare stage and apologized to the American public for that terrible show. |
In those very early days, they had some respectable stuff. What they didn't have was the owned-station lineup. |
It doesn't look promising at this point, |
It's more like it disintegrated. |
It's not your father's A&E. |
No, I think George Johnson had to march to the beat of the drum -- that was very much in the hands of white America at that time. |
On the face of it, a show about three retired women and one of their mothers living in Miami hardly seems like the kind of thing young America would take to, |
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That's an argument for PBS, |
The contrast between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson was marked, |