Posted on 05/14/2014 6:22:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Two and a Half Men, once the highest-rated TV comedy in the U.S., is ending its run with a 12th and final season as broadcaster CBS revamps its lineup to win back younger viewers.
The show, which starred Charlie Sheen until he was replaced by Ashton Kutcher in 2011, will retain its slot on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EDT, the network said in a statement. Series creator Chuck Lorre “will be creating a season-long event to send it off,” said Nina Tassler, the network’s head of entertainment.
“It’s important to keep your fans engaged,” she said Wednesday at a CBS news conference in New York. CBS is seeking to regain ground it lost last season to NBC and Fox. While CBS is still the most-watched network, it had the largest ratings decline for younger audiences among the big four broadcast networks in the past season, with average nightly viewers falling 18 per cent to about three million in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen data.
Though Two and a Half Men continued to appear regularly among the top 25 programs in the ratings after the transition to Kutcher, it had been surpassed by CBS hits like The Big Bang Theory. Sheen was fired from the show after making disparaging comments about Lorre.
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I have never seen the show.
Shows I have never watched: The Donna Reed Show, Married ... With Children, King Of The Hill, Murphy Brown, The Love Boat, Two And A Half Men, Friends, The Drew Carey Show, Roseanne, Family Guy , Family Matters, One Day At A Time, The Facts Of Life, Everybody Loves Raymond, The King Of Queens, Home Improvement, Alice, The Office, Night Court, Will & Grace
Oh my, how will they ever replace such a family friendly show, that emphasized such strong moral values? I know, maybe they could just film the poor and destitute on skid row. that would probably appeal to their targeted demographic.
“Or WKRP in Cincinnati. “As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” Still, one of the best lines in any sitcom. :-) “
Still might be the best episode in comedy history. Lucy and Ethel in the candy factory is also up there.
The Donna Reed Show, Married ... With Children, King Of The Hill, and Family Guy are only ones on your never watched list that I have seen at least once. I will never watch Family Guy again because it had the supposedly urbane and intelligent dog spew out a bunch of lies about Christians, conservatives etc. just like they were the truth and everyone understood that. Instead it made me want to look up the producer and punch him in the nose, more than once.
I'm with you there. Johnny Fever, Venus, and of course Jennifer...
I remember encountering the series the very first year it started, as that was back before I just totally gave up and turned off ‘network-tv’ for good. At first I thought it looked to be a potentially promising update of the “Odd Couple” theme, but with the two brothers instead. The two guys did seem to have a bit of chemistry.
But, wow. It dove headlong into the sewer. Just a non-stop stream of tacky put-downs and one-liners. Gratuitous sex and scat jokes every single minute. Pathetic and slimey at the same time. Just watching it instilled in me an almost immediate desire to go take a shower, to wash the filth off. It was that creepily noxious. So obviously, I quickly tuned the show out. And shortly thereafter, all of network-tv. Excised it from my life completely.
“Should have worked.” That’s funny.
True. DVD release of WKRP has generic music replacing well known songs.
All over the web I can find the story about the show’s playing of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.” It was widely credited with helping the song become a major U.S. hit, and the band’s record label Chrysalis Records presented the producers with a gold record award for the album Parallel Lines, on which the song appeared. This gold record can be seen hanging on the wall in the “bullpen” where Les, Herb, and Bailey worked in many of the episodes in the second, third, and fourth seasons.
Can’t find this on the web but I read years ago that the show wasn’t supposed to play “Heart of Glass” when they did. They were supposed to wait a couple of weeks to air the show to coincide with the song’s radio debut. It accidentally got played so it premiered on WKRP first.
When's the last time you heard My Sharona?
The Knack went...nowhere after 1980.
Interesting. I will try to search into that matter as well.
The Knack had their second biggest hit ( top ten ) in 1990.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pir69Od-y0s&feature=kp
Have to love a babe sitting on my favorite missile.
How can you leave out Bailey Quarters?
tiresome and predictable.
Who are the "holdouts" on WKRP music rights?
And O/T, but I've noticed that when cable runs movies like Where The Buffalo Roam, and Hollywood Knights, that they have all the original music.
Where The Buffalo Roam was a favorite of mine, BECAUSE of the awesome soundtrack.
Honestly it salvaged a rather crappy movie.
First time I'd heard "Highway 61" by Bob Dylan.
One movie totally RUINED is Heroes, with Henry Winkler.
In the original theatrical release the closing theme is "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas.
I've seen versions where they have some dopey second rate song dubbed in.
I remember watching “Slapshot” on TV and they had removed “Right Back Where We Started From” from the soundtrack; you can’t do that!
He was fired because he was so stoned most of the time that he couldn't do his job.
"Back Where We Started From" is the anthem for Slap Shot.
Jennifer? It was Bailey Quarters!
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3310922496/nm0810453?ref_=nm_ov_ph
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