ONLY ONE NEW EPISODE THIS MONTH?

UGH!

And, the other is a repeat from last season.

Believe me, Regis & Kathie Lee is no match for Fry & Bender!

All televsion programs are merely filler for when no sporting events are available. I mean it's not like there are 6 or 7 cable channels devoted to exclusively sports or something were they could run sports instead.

But FOX spent billions of dollars for the rights to air baseball games, including the National League championship series. When "Futurama" can generate that sort of revenue, you can be sure it will never take a back seat to a sporting event.

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That argument doesn't make sense. They SPENT money to get the baseball games, so Futurama should have to MAKE that much money? I suspect what you mean is that the baseball games bring in millions of dollars of advertisers money, whereas the normal lineup only brings in a few hundred thousand. Of course, they didn't SPEND billions of dollars on Futurama, X-Files, and Simpsons, so they don't have to offset much spending. I suppose FOX figures that they make more money overall by showing baseball instead of the normal lineup.

I for one can't stand to watch sports.

Paul

In article , [email] (Larry Finkelstein) wrote:

... More to the point, one damned Heidi-Bowl [1] and now _everyone's_ terrified of cutting off / not showing a sportscast....

Ugh. And we fans of television suffer for it. I mean, if I wanted to see a game, I'd go to the stadium, right? It's not like tix to those things are hard to get.

Jim

[1] I wanna say the 1950s-ish, near the beginning of televised sports, someone decided to actually -start- the scheduled movie (Heidi, iirc,cmiiaw), rather than let the over-long football game (Jets vs? (again, iirc,cmiiaw). Of course, the Jets (giants? something like that), came from behind, blah blah blah, while sports fans got to see a bad movie. Much outraged [2] ensued. Now every program director everywhere is afraid to cut off any _____ball game for fear of some miraculous ending that someone _might_ care about.

And thus, things get bumped / cut / not-scheduled-at-all.

Oh well.

[2] Not that it takes much to outrage east-coast urbanites.

Yeah, who wants to see that whole World Series thing anyhow? It's not like tix to those things are hard to get? Whatever, guys. I like Futarama too but come on!

In article , "RC" wrote:

_This_ year's world series? (not that many other remain in memory).

How 'bout those Braves! Strong work!

[Or, for equal time:]

How 'bout those over-paid, over-arrogant Yankees! Yeah! I can get behind caring about prissy athletes playing in "for" an arrogant east coast city!

The thing is: It's unfortunate that the Powers That Be consider some things (like the World Series) to be SO important that no one dare schedule anything opposite them.

So... there's nothing else to watch.

So... the ratings for the "event" go up.

So... the Powers That Be see the outcome as justifying their operating beliefs.

God ferbid someone put something interesting on opposite a sporting event.

Or, for that matter, god ferbid a more diverse array of sporting events be shown. But that's a different topic.

Jim

Oh, they put interesting things in, but only if you are a female between the ages of 24 & 65.

In article , spaceman spiff wrote:

Uh-oh. Now you're running the risk of insulting the women I know...

Screwwit. If they have a problem, call the networks. I'm only stating the extreme obvious. Besides, the networks admit that they do it. Christ, remember NBCs rape/abuse/stalker movie of the week a couple of years ago?