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Showtime's 'The Reagans' a Ratings Dud
NewsMax.com
| 12/3/03
| staff
Posted on 12/04/2003 9:06:54 PM PST by thesummerwind
Despite the media uproar of "The Reagans," its premiere on Showtime didn't exactly set the cable world ablaze, according to Zap2it.com.
According to news reports, a little over 1 million viewers watched the three-hour movie, which did bring a larger-than-average audience to the pay-cable network Sunday, but not one big enough to rank in the Top 40 cable programs for last week.
Eschewing the Showtime offering, about 3.5 million people watched the season finale of HBO's "Carnivale" Sunday.
However, HBO is available in about three times as many homes as Showtime, which reaches between 12 million and 13 million subscribers.
Showtime has claimed that "The Reagans" was its highest-rated original movie in two years. Ironically, its ratings were close to that of another film about the Reagan White House, 2001's "The Day Reagan Was Shot."
"The Reagans" will repeat on Showtime twice in the next week and likely air in the future on the network's "multiplex" channels.
Showtime ended up with "The Reagans" after its Viacom sibling CBS opted not to air the movie for what CBS CEO Les Moonves termed "moral" reasons, saying the film didn't present a balanced view of former President Ronald Reagan.
CBS was also facing intense pressure from conservative groups to alter or scrap the film, however Moonves contends that wasn't a factor in his decision.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dud; ratings; reagan; showtime; thereagans
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To: RatSlayer
Excellent!
Hillary - Eleanor Clift?
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posted on
12/05/2003 12:02:28 AM PST
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thesummerwind
(like painted skies, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
To: thesummerwind
Yeah, Eleanor Clift for Hillary is great idea and Rosie for Monica would be great.
I'm having trouble thinking of people for Web Hubbel and Bill Clinton.
How about Robert Redford as Vince Foster?
Maybe Jason Alexander (George on Seinfeld) as Web Hubbel?
Perhaps Darrell Hammond as IPOTUS? (or are we leaning too heavily on the SNL cast?)
To: thesummerwind
LOL! And this year's nominees are...
The Great Lewinsky
China Clown
The Iceman Cometh (Part 2)and...
All The Presibent's Yen
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posted on
12/05/2003 12:44:45 AM PST
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Bonaparte
(the world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky)
To: thesummerwind
Who could stand to watch that third-rate wanna be movie? I knew it was trash the second I heard about it.
To: RatSlayer
I'm having trouble thinking of people for Web Hubbel.Too bad Chris Farley died!!!
And Clinton......too bad W.C. Fields passed too. ;)
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posted on
12/05/2003 12:59:44 AM PST
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thesummerwind
(like painted skies, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
To: thesummerwind
Hahahaha! You've gotta be a casting director!
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posted on
12/05/2003 1:10:57 AM PST
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Bonaparte
(the world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky)
To: thesummerwind
Oooh, W.C. Fields is a good one. "Come here my little chickadee."
To: RatSlayer
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
A woman drove me to drink.........and I never had the decency to thank her! -- W. C. Fields
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12/05/2003 6:11:06 PM PST
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thesummerwind
(like painted skies, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
To: Bonaparte
That settles it. You're a genius.I have a few more.
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12/05/2003 8:56:16 PM PST
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Nateman
(Socialism first, cancer second.)
To: Nateman
LOL! I think you near about got 'em all!
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