TCA: NBC Execs Say Canceled 'New Normal' May Have Been 'Ahead of Its Time'

The Wrap ^ | July 27, 2013 | Jethro Nededog

[sarasota]

Try watching the gay guy on Million Dollar Listings New York at his wedding. I thought the show was about real estate; silly me.

[sarasota]

It took it to another level what with the make out scenes and all.

[Sioux-san]

it’s way less than that if the truth be known - most gays & lesbians have no desire to be in a homosexual version of traditional normal heterosexual monogamous life. These shows are meant to propagandize and portray a lie.

[ArrogantBustard]

Please observe the various terms used in this thread to identify homosexual actions, and those who engage in them.

[Mad Dawgg]

Its amazing how tone deaf these people are. They are going on and on trying to justify why the show failed bringing up that "Will and Grace" was successful and it was about "GAY" people.

Gee dumbasses could it be Will and Grace didn't try and cram down America's throats that being gay was "The NEW NORMAL"?

But hey let's just set that thought aside for a moment and consider Maybe the New Normal sucked because the actors weren't as good and the writing sucked.

But instead they go on and on about it couldn't be the gay thing.

Then again maybe it could you idiots. EVERY DAMN SHOW HAS SOME GAYBERT PRANCING AROUND. Its like Hollyweird is trying to make us think there is a third sex just a numerous as the two normal sexes we are all familiar with.

Well did you ever think America just ain't buying it?

[Freestate316]

I remember that when I was a kid. Petticoat Junction and Green Acres were axed as well. The network execs decided that wholesome shows with country bumpkins was passe to a generation of newly socially and sexually liberated millions.

[Two Kids' Dad]

And on a completely different note, Ellen Barkin is old now. She used to be hot about 20 or more years ago, but time has not been her friend.

[Freestate316]

It’s been gradual indoctrination. Even as kids we knew that Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, Liberace, Jim Nabors and Jm J Bullock were flaming. Robert Reed caught us by surprise. The difference was that they weren’t portrayed as homosexual, flaunting their “partners” and pushing a political and social agenda. As for gays in the military, I wonder how Lieutenant Hanley and Sergeant Saunders would have handled it.

[longtermmemmory]

because a sitcom about child abusers was not funny?

[DuncanWaring]

Rudyard Kipling, shortly after the end of The Great War:

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

[Eepsy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

[dfwgator]

Even as kids we knew that Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, Liberace, Jim Nabors and Jm J Bullock were flaming

Wait a minute, you're saying that Jm J Bullock is gay? I'm shocked...he always seemed so butch.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Network execs were not thinking much differently when they canceled Hee-Haw and The Beverly Hillbillies four decades ago.

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It was called the “Rural Purge” and you’re exactly right - can’t have the rubes enjoying themselves watching Jed, Granny, Mr. Douglas and Andy and Barney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

[0.E.O]

So what’s their excuse for “American Ninja Warrior”?

[dfwgator]

Most interesting thing from that entry:

“The backlash from the purge prompted CBS to commission, perhaps somewhat facetiously, a rural family drama for its fall 1972 schedule, but the network scheduled it in what it thought would be a death slot against popular series The Flip Wilson Show and The Mod Squad, allegedly hoping the show would underperform and head to a quick cancellation. Instead, The Waltons went on to run for nine seasons, reaching as high as second in the Nielsens and finishing in the top thirty shows for seven of its nine years on air.”

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“The numerous cancellations prompted Pat Buttram (”Mr. Haney” on one of the cancelled shows, Green Acres) to make the observation: “It was the year CBS cancelled everything with a tree—including Lassie”.”

Rural purge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

[SECURE AMERICA]

It failed because you are wrong. Americans DO NOT support homosexual marriage. Americans are sick and tired of this homosexual crap being forced on us and our children. The tide is turning...

[Parmy]

It was crap.

[longtermmemmory]

new sitcom “normals”

child abusers are normal.

Fathers are just a checkbook

Dad is an idiot.

Mom is a promiscuous.

Mom or Dad is a four letter word.

Children are just little adults with all the brains of adults.

Fetishes are normal.

Normal Marriage is a problem.

cheating is ok.

crony insider advancement is ok.

Feelings can work instead of logic.

Blame the white guy.

Corporations and their officers are evil. Unless it is a woman ceo.

The military is bad unless it is an abnormal female general.

[TomGuy]

Petticoat Junction and Green Acres were axed as well. The network execs decided that wholesome shows with country bumpkins was passe to a generation of newly socially and sexually liberated millions.

Add the Beverly Hillbillies.

Those series had long, long runs. They just ran out of material. In their latter years, the scripts for episodes became silly and downright stupid. Even many of the original cast had retired, died or gone on to other programs. That is the problem with long running programs.

I do agree that CBS management had a change in emphasis and wanted more sophisticated programs.