#CBS network

[frontporchjunkie]

Stream fire country season 3 episode 18 eyes and ears everywhere on Paramount+

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'SEAL Team' Terminará con la Temporada 7 en Paramount+...

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Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers in season 6 of Supergirl (2015 - 2021)

[marinah2oblue]

CBS Ghosts catch-up. (Fun season!)

Relative tool box:

>Pete’s daughter is a food scientist.

>Trevor’s brother is skilled at business.

>Alberta’s relative (what, great niece or something) is a fabulous singer.

>Jay’s sister, Bela, is an administrator or Jill of all Trades. (I feel ya, girl 😭)

>Carol has a mob network family.

Any more? ….

[stone-cold-groove]

Tom Jones and Cher.

[tithsokphanny31]

90’s & 2000’s cartoons were the best.

[laf-outloud]

//My problem with Walker wasn’t just that they had Cordell’s partners talk down to him, make him look like he was a mess without them, or promoted over him. (Even with the “he doesn’t want to be promoted line they tried to have) It’s also that they very much did not deserve the praise they got at times. //

This reminds me of something Jared said in a Meet & Greet (which did not have an NDA) I was at once. Someone asked him if we were finally going to see him kick more ass on Walker, or something like that. He said yes, but his answer basically boiled down to it being a political thing. As in, at the time in Walker, I think season 1 or 2, having a tall, attractive, white man kick ass on screen wasn't the narrative the network wanted to run with.

So, I think part of what made Walker irritating at times is that it near constantly busted Cordell’s balls and broke him down, so he couldn't be "alpha male guy." It’s not that I needed him to be that stereotype, but when you go too far in the other furrction, especially when your hero is a ranger, it feels disengenuous.

I’m all for string, kickass fensle characters, but not all of them have to do that by literally kicking a man's ass at everything. And a ms,e character shouldn’t have to be made lesser in order to make the women look stronger. Make the female characters well-rounded, strong, but flawed, and characters who have consequences. Then do the same with the male characters, and we might get something balanced and more organic than a forced, "silly screw-up, beaten-down man vs strong, never mistaken, self-richeous female characters." This is just an inverted, over-correction from the also crappy older model of shows with badass, smart, capable guys, and usesless, besides being hot female characters. Let everyone shine, without diminishing others to do so.

I mean, Cordel's kids literally felt like they could walk in on his job and tell him what to do. The character wasn’t respected by anyone.

Interesting... I hadn't heard that note came from the studio, but it makes sense. If you think about the timing, when Walker was being created, it was probably around 2018 - 2019, which was very shortly following the #MeToo movement that saw it's popularity peak in 2017.

And you're right, there's nothing wrong with having kick-ass female characters, but please, not by emasculating the lead male character. Well-written characters, with strengths and weaknesses, whether male, female, or other, are what draw people to television. The general public isn't so concerned with shows being politically correct, they just want to be entertained. And if that entertainment comes in the form of a strong white male kicking ass on screen? The GA doesn't care. (I mean, just look at the success of Top Gun: Maverick.)

I think some film/tv execs are figuring out that the online groups making loud protests over certain political ideals tend to make up the minority of the audience, and know that as long as they can reach the GA, they can mostly ignore the online discourse.

[keokyoko]

My interpretation of what I think the 4 TV network logos look like if they're personified, although I ain't the first one to do it (bc some people have done it b4)

[chimnation]

Okay i did a top 100 tv shows <3

[elijones94]

🐾 Astro Pup 🚀

[sgxena16]

I just binged NCIS: Hawai'i and I'm so bitter it got cancelled. This show is so good and deserves at least 8 seasons.

[stone-cold-groove]

Tonight, on CBS!

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The "Rural Purge" of Television

During the early 1970s, American television networks — particularly CBS — noticed a shift in demographics as younger, urban audiences became more desirable to advertisers than the traditional rural and older viewership. This was aligned with a growing desire among television executives for more socially relevant content that reflected contemporary issues.

As a result, a number of highly rated rural-themed shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were canceled to make way for a changing television landscape, in what came to be known as the rural purge. They were replaced by a new wave of shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family and M*A*S*H, which were believed to be more in touch with the modern tastes and preferences of suburban American audiences. Green Acres' actor Pat Buttram famously said of the change: "CBS canceled everything with a tree — including Lassie."

The move drew some conservative outcry (including from then president Richard Nixon), which prompted CBS to release the rural family drama The Waltons, in 1972.

[witchofinterest]

limitless was so brave for using the orange filter positively

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Kelsey Poloky from Craig of the Creek shares a voice actress with D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Voiced by Noël Wells

[oldshowbiz]

Network (1976) on CBS