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Every Monday while I wait for the I-AA College Football Top 25 polls to be released by ESPN and The Sports Network, the words of ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi echo through my head...
BBCA's prime-time audience averages 76,000 viewers, a sliver compared with those of cable networks like FX or HBO, which have lured around 4 million viewers for hot shows like The Shield and The Sopranos. But BBCA's numbers are high enough to earn a Nielsen rating, which puts it beyond the fringe cable channels. In the chase for ad dollars, that places it in league with National Geographic, Oxygen and the Women's Entertainment network. "We deliver the most upscale targeted trendsetting audience in cable," says Lee, referring to a recently completed viewership study for the channel...
...knock-off would be the next Friends, lavished it with publicity and ran it on a premium Thursday-night time slot. Viewers merely shrugged, while critics savaged it. Comparing it to the British version, which airs on BBCA, the New York Times wrote, "Coupling is the Milli Vanilli of network television: the sitcom equivalent of lip-synching someone else's song." Yet BBC America is capitalizing. Thanks to the notoriety of Coupling, and hits like The Office, Lee says, BBCA "more than doubled" its revenues from last year in the latest up-front market for ad sales for the season...
...also discussed the recent rise of the conservative Fox News Network and similarly conservative radio shows. These programs offer a varying viewpoint, he said, for people who feel they cannot connect with the issues dominating mainstream media. Bai criticized the assumption that those who watch Fox News are “dumb” or “under-educated,” and said that although Fox News might only present one side, other news outlets have the same problem...
...Degrees of Separation’s title refers to the (false) notion that every person in the world is connected through a network of acquaintances to every other person in just six links, and the play explores this phenomenon by contrasting Flan and Ouisa’s relationship with Paul—three degrees distant from them—with the one that they have with their children. This is one of the play’s weakest elements: the children make catty remarks to the parents, who in turn neglect them, and that’s just about...