I also hate that there's never anything good on Friday and Saturday nights. Now, they're considered "death" slots because any show they put on there doesn't get high enough ratings for the network. It's assumed because most people "go out" on Friday and Saturday nights, but that's when I like to stay in, when EVERYONE is out, crowding up places and stores. They need to put some interesting things on Friday and Saturday nights for us homebodies.
shareIaaat, I guess the powers that be just didn't get the memo that you are the only on home on Friday and Saturday nights.
Do what the rest of us shut-ins do. Start streaming!
Sunday night is the most-watched night for TV, because it’s the end of the weekend, people are winding down from their free time to run around on the weekend, and (sadly) dreading to have to return to their 9-to-5 humdrum M-F jobs. Why do you think the Super Bowl is on Sunday? Why do you think that Game of Thrones, Westworld, Homeland, Big Little Lies, Counterpart, Shameless, the good version of Once Upon a Time, Banshee are/were on Sundays? It’s simple sociology. America watches TV the most on Sunday. In the 1980s, NBC tried to make Thursday night a “cool TV night,” starting with their alleged comedy lineup of Cosby and ending with Wings, plus some one-hour bullshit “news” show after that. It half-worked; but, if you showed up late for work on Friday because you fell for it, what did you say to your supervisor? “I can’t resist that Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie’s loathsome loser buttwhip) in The Single Guy?”
I get your point. W. C. Fields once told Cary Grant that, “I never go out New Year’s Eve. It’s Amateurs’ Night.” Broadcast (airwaves) TV lacks compassion. The advertisers know that a great deal of their most wanted demographic will be on the town and looking for sex, booze and food, and not watching network TV, and they are not going to waste their advertising dollars. That is why you/we have streaming, On Demand and our personal libraries of hard copies.
I really hope Leo Getz shows up here and tells you why Entwickler 😉
shareHockey playoffs man!
shareIS there anything good on Sunday nights? I never was in the habit on watching during that time. Now these days I couldn't even if I wanted to since I work, but I doubt I would anyways.
shareFor me: Brooklyn 9-9, Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, and Family Guy.
shareI think the only one of those I watched live on Sunday nights in the past was probably Simpsons. The rest didn't exist at the time. At this point with on demand, DVR, streaming I generally have no reason to watch something during a certain time period and almost never watch something "live" anymore.
shareI even download my network shows, and may take weeks to watch them. But I download them on the airing day.
shareI realize this may not be everyone’s taste but here’s what I wanted to watch last night:
Call The Midwife
Unforgotten
Howard’s End
Homeland
Silicon Valley
Billions
Last Week Tonight
Westworld
60 Minutes
I like to watch shows when they come out so I can read the reaction tweets, not run into spoilers and participate in those water cooler chats. I only got thru two of the shows last night.
Ah I see. I watch Call the Midwife usually a couple days after it airs in the US with the wife. The rest I don’t watch. I am trying to remember any show I truly watch that I actually watch at the time it aired. It’s probably been years since I have done that.
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