Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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This turned out to be a story that didn't even have enough traction to compete with the runaway bride, which blew Michael Jackson off the screen for a week and a half.
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When Ellen came back with the Emmys (in November 2001), she was coming back to a culture that had been put on total and complete hold, ... a felicitous coincidence.
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This time, you mention the word 'Survivor' and you can almost hear the crickets chirping in the background and the sagebrush blowing across the town.
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This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all, ... Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.
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The good news is that, today, adults can watch programs that were way better than before. We can watch 'The Sopranos' and 'Deadwood' and 'Sex and the City' and other really interesting, emotionally complex shows that I would not in a million years suggest watching with anybody younger than 14.
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We don't care if we're playing Michael Jordan, we want to win. They wore us down. We've got to get tougher.
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There are a lot of people not doing well in their alternative rock acts, who are turning around and looking at their friends in Grateful Dead bands, Elvis tributes, who are getting gigs. There was a demand for the original groups.
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There are religious activities; there are wedding receptions; there are a lot of family reunions there.
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Now when you see the promos for 'Category 7,' everybody knows what that title means, everyone knows what FEMA is.
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Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.
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For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,
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It's the only television entity of any kind that ever had a generation named after it,
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It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system.
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It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,