Word: nielsen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they anyone else's? No Bedford Falls series has ever cracked the Nielsen Top 20; only thirtysomething (1987-91) lasted more than a season. "The highest rating we ever got," Zwick says with a laugh, "was the first 15 minutes of the thirtysomething pilot. The numbers dropped by the end of the hour, and they never came back...
...series serve as surrogate examinations of social barriers. (Or certain ones: while the great dramatic potential of high school comes from its throwing together kids whose parents don't work or play together, these shows are almost uniformly white.) This In crowd-obsessed setting comes as close as is Nielsen-feasible to admitting that class is still in session: that it does matter where you were born and what you own, that there are invisible psychological obstacles to moving outside your circle, that social mobility is hardly frictionless. When school brain Lindsay Weir on Freaks, for instance, mixes with...
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, ACT, Amazon.com Congressional Quarterly, ABC, Nielsen Media Research, New York Times
Sources: Business Week, Nielsen Media Research, Fairfield Research
Thus, until recently, my only experience with TV writing was a meeting at UPN several years ago to pitch my one brilliant sitcom idea: "It's about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley...