Apparently "history" only goes back around 30 years.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 24, 2023 8:04 PM |
I saw that list.....and of course it would be focused on recent stuff, since I have shoes older than most of the interns or young writers that RS "employs" but can't afford to pay.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 24, 2023 2:53 PM |
I tried to do a new show with Roseanne this year, but Gary talked me out of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 24, 2023 3:17 PM |
Kardashians.
Thank you, Ryan Seacrest.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 24, 2023 3:21 PM |
I would've thought CNN's town hall with Trump and Kaitlin Collins would be at the top of the list, but no mention at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 24, 2023 3:24 PM |
Actually with Gillian, it goes back more than 50 years. Nothing from the black & white era tho. Canceling Judy Garland. Not continuing The Honeymooners. No Mertz spin off. There were options.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 24, 2023 3:25 PM |
Regarding Glee, I thought they were so foolish during the early seasons for not realizing the kids would have to graduate at some point. If they had brought in a couple new kids and graduated a couple of the existing cast each year, they might have had a better chance of holding the audience's affection.
Numbers 2 and 1 should have been flipped. Nothing can compare to NBC's reinvention of Trump.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 24, 2023 4:03 PM |
The execs who decided to take Cheers and Seinfeld off the air at the end of their first seasons have to feature. Fortunately, they were overruled in the end.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 24, 2023 4:16 PM |
#1 is stupid. That's the worst decision in all of tv history???
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 24, 2023 4:20 PM |
I think the only show to get high school right was One Tree Hill. Then they time jumped past the college years.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 24, 2023 4:26 PM |
Letting Shelley Hack go after season 4 of Charlie’s Angels in 1980 and hiring Tanya Roberts for season 5. Tanya Roberts was a convicted shoplifter AND graduated from modeling school NOT the police academy like everyone else.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 24, 2023 4:41 PM |
^^Julie Rogers not Tanya Roberts
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 24, 2023 4:42 PM |
Oh God Rolling Stone shits out so many idiotic lists I’m convinced it’s written by AI
HOW is Fox passing on The Sopranos idiotic? The Sopranos would have never been able to reach the level of artistic richness it achieved if it hadn’t been on premium cable which not only allowed adult content but allowed smaller seasons and considerable hiatuses to allow new seasons to be perfected. Network TV was a 22 episode factory religiously tied to advertising cycles.
I’m sorry, but this is the kind of content we get because all these jobs are given to someone’s daughter. Shoshanna from Girls would have edited this.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 24, 2023 4:50 PM |
Omfg what a waste of time article, it seemed like something written by a buzzfeed intern. It was a bunch of petty grievances about shows no one hear or cared about, politically correct posturing or things that were not really important at all. There was not one interestimg point to that article.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 24, 2023 4:57 PM |
And I'd add DL could come up with a much better and on point list.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 24, 2023 4:57 PM |
I do wish Freaks and Geeks had lasted longer. I usually skip sitcoms but that was a good show. I also wish the NBC suits hadn't fucked with Homicide: Life on the Street. Who needed Falsone and Ballard?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 24, 2023 5:30 PM |
The Freaks and Geeks situation is simple, some shows just aren't meant for network television. Freaks and Geeks would have been better on premium cable.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 24, 2023 5:32 PM |
"Freaks and Geeks" wasn't that great. Canceling it certainly isn't the worst decision in TV history.
Meanwhile, Rolling Stone likely produces these lists as rage bait. Of course people are going to have problems with the rankings and the omissions. It's not like the magazine has anything else going for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 24, 2023 5:40 PM |
The "Baywatch" thing was huge only in hindsight. At the time it was not a highly rated show. The show took off when Pam Anderson joined the cast in season 3 (number 2 in syndication).
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 24, 2023 5:52 PM |
I'm glad Felicity's haircut didn't make the list. It still amazes me people try to blame the show's decline in ratings on her hair and not a change from it's cushy post-Buffy time slot to leading off Sunday nights.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 24, 2023 6:09 PM |
I still think the funniest was in the 60s, when one of the networks cut from the deciding minutes of a key football game in the playoffs that had gone into overtime so they could start a showing of the children's film "Heidi."
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 24, 2023 6:11 PM |
[quote] it seemed like something written by a buzzfeed intern
A Buzzfeed list might have been mildly interesting. This one is just shit.
RS is really truly terrible. It used to be great, but those days are long gone.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 24, 2023 6:15 PM |
No "My Mother, the Car"? No "Turn-On"? No "Emily's Reasons Why Not?"
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 24, 2023 6:57 PM |
No mention of Linda Lavin or Bonnie Franklin? At least they're not stealing from Datalounge
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 24, 2023 7:12 PM |
R18, I think because Freaks and Geeks became such a critical favorite and so many of its cast members became famous, people don't realize that the show was essentially doomed from the start. It was at the peak of the WB teen soap, where every teenager was a played by a 22 model who spoke like a graduate student in English literature, and yet Freaks and Geeks mostly showed teens as unattractive and awkward as they are, set in a tacky era before the target audience was born. Even My So-Called Life couldn't earn a second season a few years earlier, and it had modern characters with teen idol appeal.
No matter how good it was, Freaks and Geeks was destined to fail based on audience taste and the economics of network television at the time. Maybe it would have fared better in the age of streaming, but there was no way it could survive on a major network in the year 2000.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 24, 2023 7:12 PM |
[quote]Even My So-Called Life couldn't earn a second season a few years earlier, and it had modern characters with teen idol appeal.
I thought it ended because Claire Danes didn't want to do it any longer.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 24, 2023 7:17 PM |
UNpopular opinion but I found My So Called Life so earnest and preachy...every episode was a "very special episode"...I liked that they featured a gay teen character and stuff like that but it took itself too seriously. Freaks and Geeks on the other hand had funny moments, even if it also played up the realism angle too.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 24, 2023 7:37 PM |
R27, I always thought it was just because of low ratings, but at least according to Wikipedia it's more complex than that, and Danes backing out was the last straw for the show, which was always on the bubble for renewal.
FYI, the low-rated show still earned ten million viewers, which would make it a massive hit today.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 24, 2023 7:42 PM |
Did the last season of “Hazel” make the list?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 24, 2023 8:04 PM |
