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Another example of a "tank job": CBS's "Kate & Allie." That show was a Top 10 hit before "The Cosby Show," something which isn't mentioned very often in the media, who likes to pretend that the sitcom was all but dead before Bill. (It was, but the fact that K&A did as well as they did in the ratings in 1983-84 doesn't fit their narrative so neatly, so it gets overlooked). Toward the middle of their six-season run, however, ratings began to soften. By the time Allie (Jane Curtin) remarried, at the end of the fifth season, I don't think the show was in the top 30 anymore, although I could be wrong about that. Nevertheless, in order to push the show closer to its' end, CBS moved K&A from Mondays to several places on the schedule, prompting Susan Saint James (Kate) to quip at one point during an interview on "Late Night with David Letterman" that it's somewhere on the schedule. Wow, I had no idea, lol! You know you're toast if you can't compete against "Webster," lol. It's a shame K&A got overshadowed by those shows, too. Even as a kid, I thought K&A was much better than WTB or GP. TCS might have been the juggernaut, but IMO, FT and K&A were better written. If Danny/Jonathan had had his way, this would have been the theme song:

I agree. As wonderful as Gladys Knight and Flip Wilson were and are, CBS must have been out of their minds to think they could lure away even a portion of Cosby's audience. What CBS should have done was what FOX ended up doing years later, when they counter-programmed with "The Simpsons." You figure out which demographic(s) the number-one show in that slot is not catering to and you give that audience their alternative. It might have been tricky to do in TCS' case, since TCS appealed to a wide swath of the country at that point, but I'm sure there were SOME viewers out there who weren't necessarily cottoning to TCS. (Hence, "Roseanne.")

And Charity Rahmer beats them both.

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I can...which scares me. Hence, the arrival of Trader Joe's Jagger. Exactly.

Do NOT give that man any ideas.

True, lol.

LOL!! I don't think any discussion on "Tank Jobs & Sabotages" would be complete without the ongoing nightmare that was CBS's erratic scheduling of "WKRP in Cincinnati."

I think it had. For one thing, Alyssa Milano and Danny Pintauro had grown up, so a lot of the "cute factor" that had helped the show in previous seasons was gone. (They attempted to recapture it by bringing on that foster kid for Tony and Angela, but it was clear from the beginning that that wasn't going work, so they wrote him out after a few episodes). For another, I think the novelty of its' role-reversal premise simply had worn off. By the final season, Tony was finishing his college education. It would have been ridiculous for him to remain as Angela's housekeeper after that, lol. IMO, "Cosby" never gelled the way "The Cosby Show" had. Each new season felt like a reboot to me. So you're the one who wrote all those letters to SOD! But seriously. I think I read somewhere that CBS changed TJ's time slot at least fifteen times throughout its' eleven-year run. Between that and not giving them the opportunity to tape a proper series finale, you really get the impression that CBS tried everything they could to kill the show. Makes me wish they had acknowledged the rainbow-colored elephant in the room and had Jonathan come out of the closet on the show.

The thing is, Alyssa Milano did Shannen Doherty a favor by getting her fired, because "Charmed" was such a wretched show.

I know I'm as uneducated as they come about these things, but I just don't understand why we need any limits on immigration.

The Trader Joe's bag in the trunk pretty much sums up everything.

I wouldn't be shocked if there were. Frank would cast Howarth to play Celia Quartermaine if he could. He'd just stick a wig on him and then tell him to wet his lips and werk his booty. But it was clear that ASJ was playing what Susan Lucci would call "an ethnic type."

Yeah, Patrick Mulcahey's gonna have a helluva time working with Frank.

Seriously, Frank Valentini is just John Conboy with brighter lighting. But even Conboy would have hired an Hispanic Italian actor with dark features for the role.

Or Roger Howarth's. Pat Boone is Julius LaRosa compared to nuJagger.

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I'm sure Frank's perusing the Abercrombie website even as we speak.

Thank you!

Again, @John, what the hell difference Does. That. Make. @Vee is right: you knee-jerk defend this crap because all you obviously care about is that someone mentioned Jagger's name onscreen.

Just because it might be inevitable, that doesn't make it acceptable. It wasn't acceptable when OLTL did it, and it sure as [!@#$%^&*] ain't acceptable now. I seriously don't know who to be mad at more: Frank Valentini, for thinking he could get away with this; or you, for casually condoning it while looking the other way. I mean, if that's the case, then I guess you wouldn't mind if I were to recast Jason with some black dude? Hey, it's gonna happen!

It's 2024. The days of casting or recasting an explicitly Hispanic character with a non-Hispanic actor are DONE. Frank can [!@#$%^&*] all the way off with this bullshit.

IDC if it's for an under-five. This is 2024. Unless this dude is playing someone who's just using Jagger's name, Frank Valentini needs to answer for this [!@#$%^&*]. Otherwise, #FireFrank needs to be resurrected.

Heads should roll for this. I haven't been this offended by a recast since they de-Asian'ed Blair on OLTL! WTH, Frank!?

I'll bet you a steak dinner that you're wrong.