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re: Gentleman's Guide

Posted by: chrisampm 06:44 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Gentleman's Guide - Michael_Portantiere 11:51 am EDT 04/03/14

If this were true, how do you explain the quick failures of shows based on easily recognizable movie titles (9 to 5, Ghost, etc) or song catalogues (Good Vibrations, Come Fly Away, etc)?


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re: Gentleman's Guide

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:40 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Gentleman's Guide - chrisampm 06:44 pm EDT 04/03/14

I certainly did not mean that EVERY show based on a popular movie or song catalog has been a success at the box office. I meant to argue from the other direction -- that several shows based on popular movies or song catalogs have been huge successes despite those shows being of extremely low quality, in my opinion.


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re: Gentleman's Guide

Posted by: ryhog 09:21 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Gentleman's Guide - chrisampm 06:44 pm EDT 04/03/14

formulas and facile generalizations don't work in either direction. Shows succeed when folks want to see them, and fail when people don't. Great shows fail, lousy shows succeed. As I like to say, there are no rules.


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