Please excuse the digression...
...but allow me to slip into a former skin for a moment and say...
Really, NBC? REALLY?
You didn't see this coming? Here's a thought... if you're going to be a network executive, WATCH TELEVISION. 'Cause I bet Joe the Plumber could have told you that while Jay Leno is the best thing on at 10:30, he is decidedly NOT the best thing on at 9:00. In fact, it's really not even close. The only reason that we watch him at 10:30 is because TBS's Law & Order du jour (it's Law & Order: SVU on Mondays and Tuesdays - this I know for sure) started at 10:00 while we were watching the news and is already halfway over, and if we're going to watch Sam Waterston getting all blustery in a courtroom, we're goddamn sure gonna know what it's all about. But there's just no way that "Jaywalking" (which was, admittedly, quite funny on those happy-hour-got-a-little-long-tonight nights where you only have to stay up late enough to finish an entire bottle of water so that you have a prayer of dragging your ass out of bed in the morning despite french-kissing a Ketel One bottle and bumming a couple of unfiltered Camels off the office manager) can compete with Two and a Half Men or The Big Bang Theory or Criminal Minds or Desperate Housewives or Grey's Anatomy... but you get the picture, and if you don't, rest assured that I could continue in that manner until you did.
Not that I'm implying that Joe the Plumber watches Grey's Anatomy. But his sister might.
Really, NBC? REALLY?
You didn't see this coming? Here's a thought... if you're going to be a network executive, WATCH TELEVISION. 'Cause I bet Joe the Plumber could have told you that while Jay Leno is the best thing on at 10:30, he is decidedly NOT the best thing on at 9:00. In fact, it's really not even close. The only reason that we watch him at 10:30 is because TBS's Law & Order du jour (it's Law & Order: SVU on Mondays and Tuesdays - this I know for sure) started at 10:00 while we were watching the news and is already halfway over, and if we're going to watch Sam Waterston getting all blustery in a courtroom, we're goddamn sure gonna know what it's all about. But there's just no way that "Jaywalking" (which was, admittedly, quite funny on those happy-hour-got-a-little-long-tonight nights where you only have to stay up late enough to finish an entire bottle of water so that you have a prayer of dragging your ass out of bed in the morning despite french-kissing a Ketel One bottle and bumming a couple of unfiltered Camels off the office manager) can compete with Two and a Half Men or The Big Bang Theory or Criminal Minds or Desperate Housewives or Grey's Anatomy... but you get the picture, and if you don't, rest assured that I could continue in that manner until you did.
Not that I'm implying that Joe the Plumber watches Grey's Anatomy. But his sister might.