Let me start out with a rant why doesn’t anybody rerun DS9. You have seven seasons of a star trek show that hasn’t been syndicated to the point where I’m sick of seeing it like TNG. That being said….
TV executives will tell that the best lead into a show is the show itself, which is why you see so many marathons. I think the recently rebranded channel needs to model themselves after a traditional network with different shows every night of the week or at least limit it to 1 episodes a night. Marathons are great in the short term but they burn through too many episodes in a very short period of time. Spread it out make the channel a habit. If I knew I could catch Babylon 5 at 8 PM, DS9 at 9 PM, and Sliders at 10 PM Monday – Thursday, they would have me hooked.
You could go 6 months before you had to repeat a show. You could rotate shows in and out when Sliders runs out of episodes let Highlander take its slot. Train me as viewer to watch to your network everyday
Friday would always be the night for any new shows (like Stargate Universe, Dr Who, The Phantom, etc.)
Saturday would still be crappy movie night (I understand that they are cheap programming, so its necessary evil)
Sundays would consist of Wrestling and Reality shows (cheap programming that would pay for the other stuff)
They also need a entertainment tonight style show that would cover the genre that would air nightly at 7:00. It would show full trailers, rumors, comic book reviews, news of the day, and be a place for actors and directors to promote new stuff, DVD reviews. etc.
During the weekday I would rerun older shows like the Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers, Lost in Space .
They also need to show old school cartoons like Super Friends on Sat Mornings
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This post was written by Lobo on April 1, 2009
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Very good point about the cartoons on Saturday mornings. Even the cartoon networks don't really tap into that nostalgic thing.
As for Wrestling, I would have left it at 10 on Tuesday, but instead of having the commercials for the latest first run episodes or Saturday night movies, I would have the commercials for the reruns and next week's episode of whatever comes on before wrestling. Let the people who turn on the channel for that one hour (because a lot of them don't come back) see that there might be something that they might remember.
Great post.
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