It used to be on Adult Swim when I watched it back in the day. I just remember this one episode of The Simpsons where Homer was driving in his car and he finds Bender in it and he's all "What the?" and throws him out the window.
I maybe watched the first season of The Simpsons. It seems like it was on opposite Cosby and they were probably keeping Lisa Bonet fully clothed, so it may have been less-interesting at the time. I had long been a fan of Groening's "Life in Hell". It was the only comic in our local entertainment mag and I enjoyed the bumpers on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Lately, I've been letting my five year old watch the syndicated reruns and she really likes the show. Though, I'm sure she doesn't understand what they're talking about and just calls them "the yellow guys", when I'm flipping around. Also, I don't know, but doesn't Fox own a piece of the show? I know Jim Brooks got some as a result of the Ullman connection and of course, Groening has a chunk, but isn't Fox also sharing in the syndication and merchandising revenue? Wouldn't that be another argument for keeping it on the air, long past the expiration date and until the end of time?
All networks have stakes in their show. The network actually owns the show. They're the ones, along with the studios they're produced at, they sell the show into syndication on other networks.
There has been a trend in the past few years toward networks owning a piece of some shows, but most still only buy first-run rights. For instance from your list, Scrubs wasn't put on the fall schedule because NBC/U didn't own any of the show and they replaced it with The Office which is mostly an in-house production. Johnny Carson owned all of his shows and the network was brought-in on the transition to Leno.
Other examples of how incestuous this relationship can end-up being can be found from looking at one of the websites for Touchstone Television. Touchstone is part of ABC Television and both are divisions of Disney. In addition to several shows that air on ABC, they also own parts of Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer which both air on CBS and the aforementioned Scrubs, which is under contract to NBC. And, while most of the NBC/U shows broadcast on one of their parent company's channels, they also produce House for Fox and something called Complete Savages for ABC
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Just googling in a circle, but here's some background on television programming ownership and judging from my lists above, the idea of each network partially owning a majority of their schedule still holds true, but the financial risks of production still spreads the productions around.
My brother started me to watching it. I came into it thinking it would be like a platform carbon copy of every other doctor show. But surprisingly it's a decent show.
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I think it's on cable somewhere now.
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Lately, I've been letting my five year old watch the syndicated reruns and she really likes the show. Though, I'm sure she doesn't understand what they're talking about and just calls them "the yellow guys", when I'm flipping around. Also, I don't know, but doesn't Fox own a piece of the show? I know Jim Brooks got some as a result of the Ullman connection and of course, Groening has a chunk, but isn't Fox also sharing in the syndication and merchandising revenue? Wouldn't that be another argument for keeping it on the air, long past the expiration date and until the end of time?
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Other examples of how incestuous this relationship can end-up being can be found from looking at one of the websites for Touchstone Television. Touchstone is part of ABC Television and both are divisions of Disney. In addition to several shows that air on ABC, they also own parts of Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer which both air on CBS and the aforementioned Scrubs, which is under contract to NBC. And, while most of the NBC/U shows broadcast on one of their parent company's channels, they also produce House for Fox and something called Complete Savages for ABC ( ... )
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friends are grand.
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