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Nov 23 | Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.
Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
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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 :
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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.
I believe early on, it was on at 8:30pm - I know it was on sometime after "Batman", which was on at 7pm. Of course this required a channel change. 
But I think once it moved to late night, like 10:30pm - and even today for me, 10:00pm is pushing it, that pretty much killed it.
I did watch "Man from U.N.C.L.E." (as well as the spin off - "Girl from U.N.C.L.E"). And even "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "I-Spy", which were other "late" timed shows. 
But I guess that's water under the bridge. Certainly, VCRs (and other time-shifting devices) have changed the dynamics of when one can "catch" a show. And fortunately Nielsen is starting to look at that. How long it will take for the networks and advertisers to accept this time-shifting, is another thing altogether though. ;-)
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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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"If the season finale involves the re-built USS Reliant coming back in time to the 21st Century crewed by Moogie, Dr. Selar, Morn, Transporter Chief Kyle, and the Salt Vampire, then we'll know that Coto has gone too far." - tomba1701
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If Batman came on at 7, you weren't in the Eastern Time Zone, because "Prime Time" didn't start until 8, except on Sunday night, which was 7.
I am in ET but remember it coming on at 7 here. Interestingly enough, TV Tome has a screencap of an old commercial for it listing it at 7:30 pm ET. And I remember times when they showed back-to-back eps here - perhaps instead of doing the Wednesday/Thursday. Ie., they would put cliff-hangers together (especially if the episodes were in re-run), at 7pm - 8pm.
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Most of the hour shows that I remember came on at the top of the hour, although there could always be exceptions.
Yes... although it seemed as though there were so many more 1/2 hour shows than hour ones - obviously the kajillion comedies. :-) Geez... "Gilligan's Island", "Bewitched", "My Favorite Martian", "That Girl", "The Beverly Hillbillies". Ack! I even remember watching "Hazel" and re-runs of "Dennis the Menace" in glorious black and white. LOL
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So you might have been able to watch Star Trek at 8:30 where you were, whereas 10:00, or even 9:30, in the East was too late for me on a school night.
Well from what I remember, it bopped around and came on much later, which was a damn shame.
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The Girl From UNCLE stunk! Except for Stephanie Powers, who in the height of the miniskirt era was...ummm...watchable.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!! As a female, I thought it was sortof cool but campy to bring on a "female" version, but she wasn't that bad. Although I guess she couldn't compete with an Emma Peel. (I'm trying to remember what network showed "The Avengers" here - I know it was on)
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BTW, since you were around then, did you catch the first run of The Prisoner, the replacement show for Jackie Gleason (of all things!) in the summer of 1970? I've been buying the DVDs of it, and most of them are just as good now as I remember them then. It was even more obscure than Trek back then!
I never got into that. I know folks I work with talked about watching it, but I ended up watching "Mission Impossible" or "I-Spy" as my primary dramas.
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Your comments on VCRs and TIVOs are well taken. I've heard TIVO scares the beejesus out of advertisers, because it's so easy to fast forward. I'm sure they will find ways around it...can you say Product Placement? I thought you could...
Heh - Nielsen plans on putting this in place in 2005. This is a relatively new article because I have read many over the past couple years and there were delays and delays. But now that they have their "Net" monitoring stuff in place, I guess now is as good a time as any.
And yeah, when I started reading about how TiVO works, well... heh. But then even some newer VCRs have always had those "commercial blockers" - although the networks have done things to stymie those too with the way they segue to scenes. Oh well... it will be interesting times!
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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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"If the season finale involves the re-built USS Reliant coming back in time to the 21st Century crewed by Moogie, Dr. Selar, Morn, Transporter Chief Kyle, and the Salt Vampire, then we'll know that Coto has gone too far." - tomba1701
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OMG... Diana Rigg was the bomb back then! That skin-tight body suit! The sexy banter with John Steed! Even now my heart (and other body parts) flutter as I remember her!
Hee hee... I figured you'd like that.
She was pretty cool too. And so was Patrick Macnee. And it was the wildest thing but I took a trip to Egypt back in '92 and when I went to the sound and light show at the Temple of Karnak, whose voice did I hear narrating the show (obviously a tape)? Patrick Macnee. LOL I mean the man's voice is that distinctive that all I could do was shake my head. There I was like 6000-some miles from home and hear his voice...
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You're right..tons more 1/2 hour shows. Do you remember one called "Queen for a Day?" You could say it was one of the first reality shows. Women would come on and compete to be "Queen for a day" by telling their sad true-life stories. The audience would then decide the winner by applauding. There was this device called an "Applausometer" that would record the volume, and that's how the winner would be chosen.
I don't remember that but I DO remember "Candid Camera" (Allen Funt?) and "What's My Line?". Oh LOL!! "Candid Camera" was DEFINITELY a "reality show" of the '60s!!!! - before stuff like "America's Funniest Home Videos" and other such stuff that were "modern" copies. heh
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It was funny (but sad) for two reasons. First, the prizes were always from show sponsors, and were often useless to the winner. "Yes Mrs. Smith, your husband lost his job and left you, and creditors are knocking down your door...so here's your new washing machine!"
That, and imagine the poor slobs who LOST. You've gotten on national TV, told your loser story and humiliated yourself in front of millions of people, and you go away with frickin' nothin'!
I don't remember watching that... But there was other stuff like that on, I know. I keep thinking of alot of that stuff running in black and white (my fuzzy images and damned if I can remember the names of some of them - although it usually comes to me at like 2am... har).
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Finally, you owe it to yourself to watch The Prisoner. I think it was the best show of all of those in the 'secret agent' genre. It's one of the few shows to never lose it according to Jump the Shark
Oh I know... heh. I used to work with a guy who recently retired who just gushed over it. It's a shame it only ran for a season. I thought I had heard they were considering doing a new version of it? Not sure... I know "The Fugitive" was one that was popular too.
I liked "The Time Tunnel". I don't care HOW MANY people trash Irwin Allen! I thought the tunnel thing was cool-looking. Also liked "The Green Hornet". Another short-lived thing. Oh well.
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If you can imagine a show that is part secret agent, part science fiction (more than a few ripoffs of TOS, including the eeire music and low-rent special effects), with nods to Brave New World and 1984 - that's The Prisoner. If you want to check a few episodes first, start with the second set of DVDs and view "The Chimes of Big Ben."
I might just do that with some of the older series. There were some neat things running back then that got the ax before their time - no different from today. I think it's great that some of this stuff gets to see the light of day again, whether on cable (like TV Land) or on DVD.
OMG!!!! I looked at TV Land's list of shows and it mentioned "Mr. Ed"!!!! LOL!!!!!!!! (now I won't be able to get the song out of my head... yikes!)
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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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"If the season finale involves the re-built USS Reliant coming back in time to the 21st Century crewed by Moogie, Dr. Selar, Morn, Transporter Chief Kyle, and the Salt Vampire, then we'll know that Coto has gone too far." - tomba1701
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned (or I haven't noticed anyone mention), one of the most successful "Friday night shows": DALLAS. When Miami Vice was put up against it in its third season, Dallas pretty much killed MV, ratings-wise.
Who Shot J.R.?
LOL!!!
No nighttime soaps for me (well - I think I watched the "Who Shot J.R." season ending cliffhanger)! And absolutely positively NO Joan Collins and "Dynasty". lol
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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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"If the season finale involves the re-built USS Reliant coming back in time to the 21st Century crewed by Moogie, Dr. Selar, Morn, Transporter Chief Kyle, and the Salt Vampire, then we'll know that Coto has gone too far." - tomba1701
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