TommyymmoT: I just read that they're bringing back Community.

And that's the last advertisement you'll hear about it from NBC.

DamnYankees: what_now: DamnYankees: Seriously, name me one other network which has a top 8 of quality shows over the past five years as good as NBC. And they can't get ratings.

HBO?

NBC does the half hour sitcom pretty well, but the money hasn't been in that for about a decade.

HBO isn't a network. It's not even regular cable.

Wikipedia: "HBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner."

It's not broadcast, but unless you know something I don't, it is a network.

mitchcumstein1: Exactly one of those shows is watchable...oh fark it, two

I like looking at Kat Dennings. It doesn't make 2 Broke Girls watchable, but it's something.

mitchcumstein1: dletter: Because these are the Top rated programs on TV today:
American Idol
Dancing with the Stars
NCIS
Two and a Half Men
NCIS: LA
Big Bang Theory
60 Minutes
Mentalist
Mike & Molly
2 Broke Girls

Exactly one of those shows is watchable...oh fark it, two, I like NCIS, but 60 Minutes is the only one of those I will readily admit to watching.

Can someone explain to me how the gal on Mike & Molly won the emmy last year? I mean, I'm not even saying she is a bad actress.... it's just how can you judge with how awful the writing is on that show.

She was piss your pants funny in Bridesmaids, and it carried over?

I know I'm in the minority because people gushed about that movie but her character just reminded me of a female version of Larry the Cable Guy.

DamnYankees: NBC vexes me. They routinely have the best shows on network TV (in the past several years, these include Parks and Rec, The Office, 30 Rock, Community, Life, Chuck, Parenthood and Friday Night Lights) and they SUCK as a network. It is seriously confusing.

Seriously, name me one other network which has a top 8 5 of quality shows over the past five years as good as NBC. And they can't get ratings.

FTFM

thomps: bigmattress: DamnYankees: what_now: DamnYankees: Seriously, name me one other network which has a top 8 of quality shows over the past five years as good as NBC. And they can't get ratings.

HBO?

NBC does the half hour sitcom pretty well, but the money hasn't been in that for about a decade.

HBO isn't a network. It's not even regular cable.

Wikipedia: "HBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner."

It's not broadcast, but unless you know something I don't, it is a network.

by HBO's own account, they aren't even TV. stands to reason that they can't be a TV network then.

Marketing trumps all, I guess.

The only shows I watch on NBC are the ones that get cancelled. NBC should just put all their good shows on USA, where ratings don't have to be as high.

I DVR every prime-time USA show. Even the worst shows are at least watchable, and the best ones are really good. I thought I'd be sick of Psych by now, but I still can't help but crack up every time I watch it. Life and Chuck both should have been on USA.

And its an Olympics year too! Yeah! So Dick Ebersol can prove once again that NBC sports blows worse than their entertainment division.

/and don't get me started about pinnipeds, either

bigmattress: DamnYankees: what_now: DamnYankees: Seriously, name me one other network which has a top 8 of quality shows over the past five years as good as NBC. And they can't get ratings.

HBO?

NBC does the half hour sitcom pretty well, but the money hasn't been in that for about a decade.

HBO isn't a network. It's not even regular cable.

Wikipedia: "HBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner."

It's not broadcast, but unless you know something I don't, it is a network.

It's not like networks or regular cable because it does not rely at all on ad revenue and is entirely viewer driven. Their viewers pay up front. Since their movie licensing does not cost them much because they are backed by a studio, the majority of the subscription fees goes to the original programming, determining the budgets and levels of actors and writers they can get.

Also, since they back all the original programming from the development stage, they get a larger percentage of DVD revenues than other networks, which have to divvy up with individual distributors. That's why a channel with no ad revenue can afford to make series like Boardwalk and Game of Thrones, which cost anywhere from 5-10 million dollars an episode and how they can afford to develop a pilot with guys like Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.

They always said Community would be back "at some point" the question is whether it will be renewed for a 4th season or if they are just going to finish airing season 3.

And stop saying shows like Whitney are going ot save your network. It sucks and everyone knows it.

Nefarious: IoSaturnalia: And its an Olympics year too! Yeah! So Dick Ebersol can prove once again that NBC sports blows worse than their entertainment division.

/and don't get me started about pinnipeds, either

Um, Ebersol left last year.

California Sea Lions still suck, though.

FlashHarry: germ78: In before the B-b-b-but Community! Parks and Rec!

/as good as those shows may be, they're not getting the ratings

because americans, on the whole, are morons.

DERPZINGA!

dletter: DamnYankees:
NCIS
NCIS: LA
.

You said NCIS twice.

OtherLittleGuy: Came for the "Big Bang Theory is Nerd Blackface Because it's Beating Community and Annie's Boobs!!" outrage....

This is the new Arrested Development/Firefly, right?

no because they're going to give community one more season and let everyone graduate in 4 years like they should.

ecmoRandomNumbers: I stopped watching NBC when Will and Grace jumped the shark with Harry Connick Jr.

Hey, did you see in the article where he's going to be on quite a few episodes of Law & Order? Yippy!

People still watch terrestrial television?