What channel was this show on?
For the life of me, I can't remember this show? What network was it on?
It would be a nice feature if IMDB included what networks tv shows and tv movies were originally shown on.
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Yep; it was on ABC and it's ratings were better than other shows that were renewed. It got bounced because ABC wanted Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on every single night at the time. With the best writer from Seinfeld being the creative force, you would've thought that he network would've been smart enough to look at the history of Seinfeld at NBC. It had horrible ratings it's first season and almost got cancelled. It's 2nd season started slowly and it gradually took off. ILYK actually had a better start than Seinfeld, but it wasn't given time for people to discover it. Cheers, Drew Carey and many other (too many to count) great shows started out very slowly, but were given time to develop. Those type of shows grow and make millions in syndication and even more on DVD (in many case). Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has been fobbed off on GSN and who would ever buy a DVD of it? Fox isn't the only network that chokes on a great show.
"It's not the ups and downs that make life difficult, it's the jerks." Charles Chaplin
they could and should have kept this...
but they broke up all the sitcoms they had into pairs of two over three nights....they squeezed millionaire on three different nights from 8-9 giving them one hour (the 9-10 hour) to put on the shows....that included proven, established hits, drew carrey, spin city (shoehorned together on wed)
dharma and greg on tuesday nights
now after dharma and greg is where the show could have gone since its like you know was a nice quirky show with a rhythm all its own...it would have fit with dharma in that one hour hammock esp since dharma had great numbers and could have fed them into its like you know... except the network already had an incredibly well reviewed show with low ratings that it wanted to support on in that timeslot called Sports Night! (indeed it was a great show) but ABC had to decide weather or not to support its like you know or keep sports night and it chose sports night (fat lot of good it did them since they canned sports night the following year anyways)
and up and comers 2 guys, a girl, and a pizza place and the norm mcdonald show took up on friday nights.
(they were both canceled after running one full season on friday nights...abc thought the 2 shows could sustain a night together with them and millionaire because the previous 2 years they both had very solid ratings on wed nights between 8-9 but abc soon learned that what can work very well on wed nights can collapse on fri nights...they actually should have kept them going for one or two more years because what they put on in its place the following 2 falls got even worse ratings and were both canned before they could last 3 or 4 eps (they got replaced by the john stamos starring caper show Thieves in fall of 01 and then in fall of 02 the interesting time traveling show Time and Again) it wasn't till fall of '03 that abc decided to go back to having sitcoms on that night with their revival of tgif with george lopez and hopw and faith that their ratings actually surpassed the long canceled sitcoms they had there
anyways abc should have kept its like you know
the show could have eaily grown into a solid performing space filling show with a following of its own for them over the years.
that's why the sitcoms have been endangered over the years...the nets don't fill their sked with space filling sitcoms choosing to only run the shows that are hits and then running low cost (to them) reality shows in the timeslots that could be used for solid time filing half hour sitcoms...sitcoms that don't make a lot of noise when they're on but manage to have a decent run and go into syndication and find a following there.
they had one with Less Then Perfect which managed to run 3 and a half years and then got canned as well.
they even had one with george lopez and the freddie prinze jr sitcom...
they can't just keep running according to jim in every half hour that they have a hole in!
Thanks for bringing up Norm MacDonald's Show. I would love to have the 1st season in any format. It was fall down funny, just like the 1st season of the John Larroquette Show before researchers and consultants ruined it.
"It's not the ups and downs that make life difficult, it's the jerks." Charles Chaplin
have you tried youtube? anything there? no?
i would love to see any of The Norm Show again...i quite enjoyed it throughout its run...i even made a special point of taping it every friday just so i wouldn't miss it when it moved there...i even watched 2 guys a girl and a pizza place just because it came on before the norm show every time! and 2 guys, etc was a show i was largely indifferent too for most of the time it was airing.... it really sucks that abc canned them when it did...not only because it did really decent numbers for them on a really lousy night for them... were they were expecting them to do more..but also because NORM Show managed to have a decent run...they managed to make something like 60 eps or nearly 60 so really 1 more season like a full season and they would have been in the 80 eps mark...which would have put them close but not quite to syndication territory.
I always hoped USA would pick up the reruns and run 'em in the mornings like they did with Larroquette Show back in 00 and 01. (remember when Usa had it on at like 4 AM?) I too really liked John Larroquette Show...I would buy that show in a heartbeat if they ever had a first season set or something like that. I wholeheartedly agree that the first season of that show was great. Dark, Bitter, Cynical, oh it was beautiful...it was kinda like Taxi (or Becker another show i really liked when it was on, at least that made it to syndication but giving becker a girlfriend was not their best idea.) Show was so great it even had Lenny Clarke in it! (and a bum named Oscar! "spare any change? Oscar the last time i gave you four quarters you spent them on the pay phone to call me and ask if i could give you more change.") That ep with Joe Pesci asking those people Who Am I? Your Mama? still plays in my brain to this day!
Anyways getting back to Norm! Either Norm himself or a really dedicated fan had a website that had a number of eps from the show on it when the show was actually on the air (not a lot of eps something 5 or 6 all from that first season~) ....i don't know if that site's still up but you could always do a search. good luck.