colossusx (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} colossusx) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} ohnotheydidnt,@ 2008-08-18 12:38:00 |
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A sure sign that it sucks or the guilt outweighs the pleasure
Check out this recent email from the CW:
"The CW and our studio partner CBS Paramount Network Television have made the strategic marketing decision not to screen "90210" for any media in advance of its premiere. We're not hiding anything - simply keeping a lid on 90210 until 9.02, riding the curiosity and anticipation into premiere night, and letting all our constituents see it at the same time."
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CW Refuses to screen '90210' Pilot for Critics
Check out this recent email from the CW:
"The CW and our studio partner CBS Paramount Network Television have made the strategic marketing decision not to screen "90210" for any media in advance of its premiere. We're not hiding anything - simply keeping a lid on 90210 until 9.02, riding the curiosity and anticipation into premiere night, and letting all our constituents see it at the same time."
Let's deconstruct:
- "Strategic marketing decision..." [Herewith the real conversation between the studio partners: "Chrissakes, you mean Tori just bailed?! Well, we gotta re-shoot - burn the negatives along with her contract. Get me re-write! Critics won't get a review copy, but to hell with them. They'd pan it anyway..."]
- "...for any media..." [with the exception of a few dozen news staffs at CW stations around the country, so they can put together their 10 p.m. news packages...]
- "we're not hiding anything..." [Actually, we're hiding everything. The entire network is riding on this show; you think we're gonna get sunk by a few graybeards who never even watched the original Fox series and wouldn't know Donna Martin from Donna Karan...? Don't think so.]
- "riding the curiosity and anticipation into premiere night..." [And disappointing the guy from Newsday, who awakens each morning with the hope that on his doorstep is the greatest re-make since the cathode ray tube was invented.... Thanks, CW.]
- "Strategic marketing decision..." [Herewith the real conversation between the studio partners: "Chrissakes, you mean Tori just bailed?! Well, we gotta re-shoot - burn the negatives along with her contract. Get me re-write! Critics won't get a review copy, but to hell with them. They'd pan it anyway..."]
- "...for any media..." [with the exception of a few dozen news staffs at CW stations around the country, so they can put together their 10 p.m. news packages...]
- "we're not hiding anything..." [Actually, we're hiding everything. The entire network is riding on this show; you think we're gonna get sunk by a few graybeards who never even watched the original Fox series and wouldn't know Donna Martin from Donna Karan...? Don't think so.]
- "riding the curiosity and anticipation into premiere night..." [And disappointing the guy from Newsday, who awakens each morning with the hope that on his doorstep is the greatest re-make since the cathode ray tube was invented.... Thanks, CW.]
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