I get a little lost when the metric is audience.
Unfortunately, that is the metric for staying on the air.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Jessica - Aug 14, 2006 3:49:36 pm PDT #751 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Strega - Aug 14, 2006 4:00:07 pm PDT #752 of 10001
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.
aurelia - Aug 14, 2006 4:04:53 pm PDT #753 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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.
Gus - Aug 14, 2006 4:06:44 pm PDT #754 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
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?
Allyson - Aug 14, 2006 4:15:48 pm PDT #755 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The Simpsons.
Gus - Aug 14, 2006 4:19:33 pm PDT #756 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
The Simpsons.
Dang Allyson, with her fact-having.
amych - Aug 14, 2006 4:21:22 pm PDT #757 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Long-running TV shows: [link]
Jesse - Aug 14, 2006 4:21:32 pm PDT #758 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Frasier, Married With Children, Baywatch. [link]
Gus - Aug 14, 2006 4:27:01 pm PDT #759 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
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?"
Strega - Aug 14, 2006 4:28:07 pm PDT #760 of 10001
Gus, you said the numbers confused you, and Jessica said that the numbers (that is, the audience numbers) determine if something continues to air. Not a particular number.
But anyway: westerns. Rawhide had 217 episodes. The Virginian, 249. Gunsmoke, 341. Bonanza, 430.
More recently, I'm pretty sure NYPD Blue made it past 200.