Just an observation:
Ratings for Fox’s 24 series is getting hugh ratings. I love the show, because I like watching terrorists get blown up. I don’t care whether they’re Muslim or Russian terrorists, I just like watching Jack Bauer mow them down…often times with non-warrant wire taps and without reading them their Miranda rights.
On the other hand, ABC’s “let’s see if we can get America primed for a Hillary Presidency” show, Commander In Chief is tanking hard.
Guess which one the Hollywood Foreign Press loves better, though?
h/t Libertas
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MORE: Joseph at Benedict writes:
To paraphrase James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams, if you film it, they will come. The “it” in this case is entertainment free of anti-American, anti-traditional family, anti-military, pro-homosexuality, pro- (or even neutral) substance abuse and promiscuity agendas, and the “they” are all those millions of people in flyover country.
DetroitPatriotette at Conservababes adds:
We’ve discussed movies like Brokeback Mountain and Syrianna and how they don’t do well because, well, us mainstreamers don’t really care to see that stuff. How movies like Narnia and the Incredibles and the Passion of the Christ and movies like that do very well in the box office and how Hollywood may never make the connection. Ever.
I wonder if…if EVER…somebody in Hollywood will figure out that movies about a virtuous military, about wholesome things, about good overcoming evil, all these things, it will make a ton of cash? I think they’ve perfected the way to NOT make any money.
It is interesting that the article about the Hillary fantasy show is full of speculation that the problem is front office changes. He never tells what, if anything, changed in the actual show that the viewers see.
The writer never seems to consider that maybe people just don’t want to watch yet another hypocritical, preachy, sanctimonious, humorless left wing rant against evil conservatives.
Mac-
If Hollywood ever figured out that people want to watch shows with good writing they would make a ton of cash.
I just started watching 24 with this new season, and so far, I’m on the edge of my seat. Wish I would have watched previous seasons. The actor who plays the teenage kid should get an emmy for his performance. My heart goes out to the poor hostages and their families who have faced this horror in real life and death.
I don’t know Preston…I think some of the best and smartest writing on Television is on the soon-to-be-cancled Arrested Development.
But clearly Arrested Development is a humor that isn’t going to appeal to the entire country (I suppose I would have said the same about Seinfeld though).