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I could take or leave Chad at this point to be honest. Maybe they have some great future plans for him, but I would've probably rather have Jeremy stick around. They could've recast and brought back Chad at any point down the road tbh.

This came up on YouTube: I'm a bit surprised how incredibly cheap it looks. It was allegedly done on video tape, but the sets also look very daytime-ish. I was under the impression this was a lot bigger production than this shows.

Thanks.

Sure Buff and Billy both liked girls. Sure, sure.

I mentioned it before, but in its final season, Lou Grant was definitively dependent on whatever was airing before it, which meant it was all over the place ratingswise. I don't know if that was true for the entire run, but since it had a strong lead in for most of it and was always at best a middling performer, I'd assume so. I did a small chart out of interest:

Beverly Hills 90210 moving to Wednesdays in the summer of 1992, which was originally only meant to be temporary until Melrose Place got properly launched. Then Melrose Place moving to Mondays in the 1994-95 season after Fox having abandoned the nights to movies after having cancelled all their dramas following the 1989-90 season, including the Monday line-up of 21 Jump Street (a failed move, but it did one season in syndication afterwards) and Alien Nation.

That 55+ demo for 90210 💀 Not that I expected much, but still.

Pasadena is owned by Sony. But fair point about Mike White. He might've pushed for the show to get on streaming services.

90210 having 500k more viewers than Different World, yet lower rating. I guess that's the viewing parties in action!

Wow! This is great and unexpected. Hope more short-lived soaps make it on there.

Similar thing with "Lou Grant" which was blamed on Edward Asner being outspoken, but when you look at the week-to-week numbers you can see it was absolutely dependent on its lead-in (House Calls, which in turns was dependent on how M*A*S*H would perform). This lead to Lou Grant being all over the place in the weekly rankings - it could leap frog into the top 20 if House Calls did well, but also hit as low as #58 if it was put behind repeats or the lead-in just didn't perform well. With ratings it hit as low as a 10.9 on May 3rd, 1982. There's really no mystery as to why it was cancelled.

Oh, I had no idea Plex had a channel too. Much handier. I wonder what's the hold up with the US. I'd think Hulu would be the obvious streamer to put it on there.

It is interesting that they're still out there pushing the reboot idea which I just assumed was dead. I know the One Tree Hill reboot pretty much seemed to have died a death amid cast squabbles.

I genuinely believe the marriage controversy had very little to do with it - I mean, after the rural purge CBS was kind of courting "controversy" with the Norman Lear shows. It also aired in the same season where Maude had an abortion, so CBS was at that point not trying to be a conservative network even if it's what it's mostly known as today. TvObscurities actually has a good archive of the 1972-73 ratings. Here's the night where the series finale aired: All in the Family: 34.0/54 Bridget Loves Bernie: 21.5/33 Mary Tyler Moore: 25.6/41 Bob Newhart: 23.6/33 So by the end of the run, it had cratered to the point Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart was out-rating it. The whole "religious groups got it cancelled" is a good story, but it is just that.

Yes, the first half of the season (week 1-12), Bridget Loves Bernie averaged at 25.5 and All in the Family 32.7. By the end of the season Bridget Loves Bernie was averaging a 24.2, while All in the Family 33.3. Mary Tyler Moore had a 21.8 rating for the first half of the season, 23.6 by the end of it. Similar with Bob Newhart - 19.5 at the beginning of the season, 21.8 by the end of the season. So all comedies on the night were in an upward trajectory except Bridget Loves Bernie. Week of November 20-26 1972, All in the Family rated #1, Bridget Loves Bernie at #10 and Mary Tyler More at #14.