Comments on: The Rapture of New Network Shows http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/05/24/the-rapture-of-new-network-shows/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Derek Kompare http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/05/24/the-rapture-of-new-network-shows/comment-page-1/#comment-88669 Tue, 24 May 2011 18:28:06 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=9491#comment-88669 Exactly. Moreover, it’s seemingly made on the premise that Mad Men is somehow the totality of knowledge about the 1960s. If it’s not in Mad Men, it didn’t happen. Sigh.

So, no Princess of Pies or Sultan of Sundaes? Damn.

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/05/24/the-rapture-of-new-network-shows/comment-page-1/#comment-88654 Tue, 24 May 2011 17:40:08 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=9491#comment-88654 I agree. First, what is it about Mad Men’s tepid (for a network) ratings that attracted them to want to copy it in the first place? Is Ace of Cakes up for a network copy next?? Second, you can pretty much hear the network exec behind Playboy saying, “I like this Mad Men show, but how about more T&A, and let’s get a murder in there too!” eesh

]]> By: Derek Kompare http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/05/24/the-rapture-of-new-network-shows/comment-page-1/#comment-88648 Tue, 24 May 2011 17:20:07 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=9491#comment-88648 Neither of the Mad Men-ish shows is going to last, for the precise reason that they’re clearly calculated knockoffs. And man do they look bad (Playboy in particular seems like Don Draper as written by 9th graders). It’s almost as blatant as if the networks had attempted dramas about mob families circa 2000. More importantly, I doubt even Mad Men would survive on the networks with its ratings. They expect the knock-offs to do better?

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