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Scott Bakula Optimistic About ENT Move to Friday Nights

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By GustavoLeao / 20:26, 30 August 2004 / Enterprise

The latest issue of Starburst magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with ENTERPRISE star Scott Bakula. Here are a few excerpts :

Bakula admits that the show's renewal was a last-minute decision, he maintains that he never had any fears that his job would be cut short after just three years.'I have a good relationship with the head of Paramount Television, and we had a lot of talks about what was going on, and Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] and I talk a lot about what ENTERPRISE means to UPN, because it has meant a great deal to them business-wise," says Bakula. 'And at the same time, I knew that Les [Moonves, who heads both CBS and UPN] runs the show, and if Les says we're gone, we're gone. But, happily, he didn't. So we get to go again, and they're trying a lot of new things."

New things such as a new night, Friday, which has become a wasteland of sorts on the TV landscape in recent years. Bakula, ever the optimist, prefers to see things differently, likening the situation to the last time the end of the week was the end of the world in small-screen parlance. 'All of a sudden MIAMI VICE came, and it was kind of a hit, and people started making a point to get home to watch MIAMI VICE." Then there are the cuts in the budget, by some reports up to 35% from last season, that were part of the deal that saved ENTERPRISE. Again, no panic in Bakula, who praises one of the consequences of the reduced money flow, the conversion from film to high-definition video. 'It saves a great chunk of money every week," he says. 'HD is the wave of the future, so it's just a question of time, and we're getting very, very good quality."

To read the full interview, get the latest issue of Starburst, at your local newstand.



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By: Jupiter (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:30:55 on Aug 31, 2004 | Edit History (1)

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"JAG" is about to start its 10th season there. "Joan of Arcadia" is apparently doing well there . . .

Goes to show how much I watch TV on Fridays, I had no clue.

But although it is possible for a show to make it on Friday, it's hard to ignore that Friday and Saturday nights are the least watched nights for TV. You've got the most attractive advertising segment either going out, or at a high school football game.

People with money go out on Friday night, they are less inclined to sit home and watch TV. That's why ABC's TGIF family programming worked -- because young families can't afford to go out, and the kids can stay up and watch their sugary programs on Friday night.

Thank you for the clarification about Quantum Leap on Friday night. Isn't it ironic that the former lead for Quantum Leap fails to mention that Friday night almost killed his old show?

If I were S.Bakula, this is what I would have said when I heard the news about moving to Friday nights: "Oh boy . . ."

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By: Bardo (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:35:01 on Aug 31, 2004

Star Trek was on Thursday nights at the beginning - I know because it came on past my bedtime on a school night, which sucked. Friday nights was glorious with Wild Wild West and Man from UNCLE, while Saturday nights had Mission Impossible. By the time Trek moved to Fridays, there was this mysterious entity called "girls" which had entered the picture...

If Star Trek had come on at a better time - say 8:00 - or on the weekend, a lot more kids might have watched, and the series might have lasted longer. But everything happens for a reason. If it had gone on longer, the quality might have gone down (the third season was problematic already) and it might not have become a cult classic in syndication.

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