waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (09/25/84)
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Regarding the TV schedules previously posted --
At least here in the Portland area, the ABC affiliate (KATU) is not
airing "Call to Glory" on Monday evenings anymore. For the last three weeks
"Monday Night Football" has been on in its place (covering the CtG time-slot),
with the new episodes of the CtG series airing at 4:00 PM on SUNDAY afternoons.
After all the hype that ABC put into "Call to Glory" earlier, I find
it hard to believe that they would pre-empt the program after three
episodes without bothering to relocate it in a prime-time slot. Is this
schedule change due to our local programming, or is it the network? Or,
as another possibility, has it really bombed that bad?
Thanks,
Waltdavew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams) (09/25/84)
The reason CtG was bumped on the west coast is that Monday Night Football is shown live and uses up that time slot. It isn't affected in the eastern and central time zones. Last year That's Incredible was handled the same way here in the local market. Network programming is always dictated by how it affects the east. The west usually has to bend its schedule to fit. Mountain time stations often find themselves in bizarre scheduling situations (i.e. kid's Saturday cartoons at 4 in the morning). When say a presidential press conference is on at 6:00pm PST it usually disrupts programming for the rest of the evening. The reason, of course, is that it is 9:00 EST and therefore has hit right in the middle of prime time. The local stations must then fill the time with something like a movie. When MNF winds down in January all will be put in order again. In the mean time get a VCR and time shift.
gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (09/28/84)
> After all the hype that ABC put into "Call to Glory" earlier, I find >it hard to believe that they would pre-empt the program after three >episodes without bothering to relocate it in a prime-time slot. Is this >schedule change due to our local programming, or is it the network? Or, >as another possibility, has it really bombed that bad? I have not seen the ratings for "Call to Glory", but in my opinion the show is not bombing. (However, it has been "critically acclaimed", and I am wary of any show which is "critically acclaimed" because "Two Marriages", which is somewhat similar to "Call to Glory", was "critically acclaimed", and then taken off the air due to bad ratings.) I find the show believable, somewhat along the plot lines of the book "The Great Santini" (but not the movie -- Dennis Weaver was NOT convincing as Santini). I didn't catch the last couple of weeks of it but the last episode I saw (the one about the racists) was well done. Perhaps "Call to Glory" is having problems competing with "The Scarecrow and Mrs. King". I don't know what you folks think of the show, but I find it to be somewhat amusing with a touch of excitement and suspense. -- Hug me till you drug me, honey! Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,harvard,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo
dvw@hopd3.UUCP (D. V. Wilkerson) (10/01/84)
"Call to Glory" is on immediatly before the football game in the east, and after the game in the west. I think the show was rated #35 last week. I haven't been able to watch it since I have school on Monday nights (grrrrr), but I enjoy the show and have been a Craig T. Nelson fan since the movie "Stir Crazy" (he played the warden's assistant). I read that "CTG" may not last long anyway, since Nelson has committments for other projects (including "Poltergeist II"). I like the show (very tasteful. On Tuesdays I get tastelessness from "The A Team".). Diane Wilkerson ..!hopd3!dvw