I get a little lost when the metric is audience. American Idol is not better than Lost. Lost is better than Eureka. Eureka is better than American Idol.

Okay, I am getting dizzy.

Food and rent trump cable.

There is a statement to make here about live theater (in which the Golden One works), TV, and the financial ramifications of diminishing audiences, but I am too dizzy to make it.

I get a little lost when the metric is audience.

Unfortunately, that is the metric for staying on the air.

Oh, wait, I know. It's "anything with spaceships and robots that I don't like".

No, no. It's anything with spaceships & robots that they DO like.

And really, it wasn't even that. The plot of a given episode of Galactia is not usually based on some skiffy idea. The show's premise is, but the episodes usually aren't. So it's not SF, because they aren't reversing the polarity or encountering temporal anomalies or whatever.

I'll see if I can dig up what I'm thinking of, just to make sure I'm not mischaracterizing the crazy.

There is a statement to make here about live theater, TV, and the financial ramifications of diminishing audiences

Something like that. Or... it's just the price I pay for not having a real job.

Unfortunately, that is the metric for staying on the air.

Is it? Define "air". 200 hundred eps is hard to beat. Other than soaps or talk-shows, has any other genre hit that metirc?

The Simpsons.

The Simpsons.

Dang Allyson, with her fact-having.

Long-running TV shows: [link]

Frasier, Married With Children, Baywatch. [link]

Dang again. The first SF/F thing on amych's list was Bewitched, at #28.

I am going to fall back on "Sure, SF/F ... but what have you done for me lately?"