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Date Posted: 05:49:19 01/30/06 Mon
Author: manwitch
Subject: Schizophrenic television
In reply to: Sophist 's message, "Buffy the network slayer?" on 08:58:17 01/29/06 Sun

Interesting about the UPN not having an identity. I remeber when Buffy was on, it used to just seem so bizarre to me that it was running back to back with Moisha. I mean, those simply are not the same audiences. I don't mean a racial thing, although I'm sure that matters to the marketing people at the network, but putting a cult favorite action/horror/drama serial with a relatively unimaginative sitcom just seemed wierd. I kept thinking, does UPN have nothing else to pair this with? I mean, Buffy and Angel together, thems was the days. Get all your TV for the week done in one night.

After Buffy left WB, I found WB programming tough to watch. Its all eye candy. I assume the executives of the new CW or whatever it is will think that's what made Buffy successful and that's what will make their shows successful. Its so sad. What Buffy did was treat young female audiences as though they are smart and can handle sophisticated themes. Gilmore Girls, which I doubt ever won head to head against Buffy, is at least written with a degree of sophistication regarding the mother/daughter relationship. Buffy, well, way beyond sophistication I suppose. Plus, the article insists Buffy was popular with teenage girls, but I bet it was more often than not pretty popular with their parents, too. That was a show girls could watch with their parents and not feel embarrassed, ashamed, or judged, or feel like they were giving in to their parents interests. Or so I imagine. One Tree Hill don't fit that bill. I would have to stab myself in the eyeballs if my kid wanted to watch that.

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