TV by the Numbers
Television networks just love bandwagons. Friends led to a pile of shows about twenty-something urban buddies, Will and Grace made it possible for just about any show to have a token gay character.
Now, there have pretty much always been TV shows with numbers in their titles — 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, One Life to Live (or maybe 1 Life 2 Live), and recent additions include 24, The 4400, Numb3rs, Two and a Half Men, One on One and Half and Half (half’s a number, ok?)
But this season, they’re just going over the top. ABC is giving us Six Degrees, The Nine and The One (which may already be The Gone), and NBC has 30 Rock and Studio 60.
I think they may be passing coded messages based on the shows’ titles and airtimes… Trust no 1.
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Comments (3)
Blue Gal on 21 Aug 2006 at 11:23 am #
Remember that time in the early 80′s when “Eight is enough” ran opposite “Jaqueline Suzann’s Once Is Not Enough”? I was doing the math on that for a week.
It’s a fractal.
qwerty on 21 Aug 2006 at 3:42 pm #
That reminds me of what Popeye used to say: his usual was that “that’s all I can stand…” bit, but to mix it up he’d sometimes exclaim, “enough is too much!”
A Message From Our Masters > qwerty's qoncepts on 04 Oct 2007 at 11:37 am #
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