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Spygirl

Monday, June 02, 2003 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't believe it! YAY!!!!!!!

Tabbyking

Monday, June 02, 2003 - 09:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, i guess my email early this morning scared them, huh? lol
i told them their viewer rate and satisfaction polls were plummeting. i told them several people were already boycotting their programs and others might join in...
oh well, i know i didn't get them to change their mind, but the timing is good!

Tabbyking

Monday, June 02, 2003 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
this is what i emailed this morning....


Oh, ABC!
You are losing viewers right and left. Don't be too surprised when your ratings go even lower than they already are! Stopping shows in the middle of a run (The Family; Push, NV; the Mole 2) is the worst kind of scheduling mistake. A few people seemed to be okay with your pulling (postponing) The Family because they had missed an episode or two and knew it would be back this summer. Now everyone is mad--those who saw the show for all the episodes shown and those who were looking forward to being able to see it for the 'first time'. Some of us were merely upset that it was being delayed until the summer, and amazed that anyone at ABC would consider putting it up during the run of Big Brother; which incidentally, i personally hate, but I will watch it because it will be shown and not pulled halfway through, and who knows what ABC will have in their line-up? Perhaps you should call your list "Time's Up", rather than "Line Up".

If you go to any of the boards where they are discussing ABC (which stands for Already Been Canceled, Audience Being Conned, etc.) you will see that you are going to lose more viewers. Not sure who does your scheduling, but they are out of touch with reality. ABC might soon stand for "A Busted Company". Perhaps you should have polls or surveys on your website to get a feel for what the viewers want, because someone at ABC is making some horrendous scheduling mistakes.

Right now, there is not one ABC show that I watch. If Drew Carey comes back, it will probably be the only show of yours that I watch. If he doesn't return, there is no other show ABC offers that I would care to view. Having Bob as the Bachelor makes me want to run and hide....so I hope he does it for you and gets you those high ratings!

Ryn

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 06:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Very Cool :) (about Family returning)

I will take it over cupid any day.

Jedisan

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 07:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well done Tabby!

Chance

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 08:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great letter Tabby...you rock (and crack me up as well !!!)

Marameko

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 11:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah come on,watching Bob/Boob as the Bachelor should be a hoot he seems like a decent guy. Now if it was Charlie, I would be making faces and thinking unkind remarks. Yuck, phewy = Charlie.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i didn't care for charlie, either, so i wouldn't watch it if he were the bachelor! he just seemed 'fake' to me.

Pamy

Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 04:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
YEAH!!!!! Thanks for finding that Wilson!!! Good job, Tabby, you go get um girl!

Squaredsc

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
yay cousin mike, i like him.

Mush

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 06:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Woke up to find this story in my local paper...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/135235_ringo18.html

Scorpiomoon

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the article Mush!

Not only was it cool to read more details about Ringo, but reading about someone who was found their passion and who thoroughly enjoys what they do is so inspiring. :)

Tabbyking

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
since, over-all, i find the staff much more bearable than the family members, it is nice to read something about one of them proving my favoritism is not unwarranted! nothing negative about his employers, very discreet, etc. a class act IMO

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok....here's how part of the endgame is going to work.

On the Sept. 3 episode, there will be a double elimination, first going from three players to two, and from two players to one (so there's no Fantasy Challenge, and only one Elimination Challenge, for reasons I'll get to in a second). After that, the family gets to vote on which of the nine eliminated players plays against the remaining player in the final round...

But here's the interesting thing....after the elimination from three to two, the family finds out the staff is the Board of Trustees....and the two players left get to plead their cases to the Board before they decide which player automatically goes to the final round.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 05:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I a bit confused.

The two final are told the staff is the BOD.

They plead their case to the staff.

Then they decide who goes up with them or does the entire family vote on who gets back into the game?

And that seems to leave three in the final competition.

Ladytex

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 05:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
He said that after it gets to two players, they plead their case to the board. Then one is eliminated, leaving one.
The Family votes on one person to return. That makes two again.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 06:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks. The staff eliminates one of the two and the entire family gets to pick one to go against the finalist.

This could be interesting. I am thinking young Mike is a good contender to be the last one standing before one member returns.

.....or possibly Uncle Mike. (I think he knows the staff is the BOD and has not told his wife)

Tatyana

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If Cousin Mike is not the last one standing the family will never vote for him to go back in, except Jill and maybe Maria. So I hope he's the last one standing.

Wilsonatmd

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ok.....apparently, while the family will discuss the returning player, the vote won't take place until the finale, Sept 10th. and the board apparently has no say in what happens after their final vote to one person before the re-entry vote. It's their chosen finalist against the family's voted in finalist for the money in a "mental and physical challenge".

Fruitbat

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks. This will be interesting. I cant help but think Uncle Mike is going to be a finalist.

Tabbyking

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, i would prefer personally to go up against dawn marie at the end. i think an empty milk carton could take her in a mental and physical challenge.

Fruitbat

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 05:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL! so true. Genuine and honest but dumb as a box of hair, poor thing. Her emotional stability is in question too.

Pamy

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 06:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<dumb as a box of hair> ROTF!!! I like Dawn Marie, always have and now Donna's growing on me!! What is wrong with me?! lol

Fruitbat

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 07:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Donna is definately showing some different qualities of late. I cant say that I will ever be in her court but she is becoming more human.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 08:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i like "darn marie" and "aunt donner" because they are loud and ditzy, but i would like to go up against the former because i think i can take her! lol

most of this family is as dumb as a box of rocks. i can't believe they thought the donkeys were 'the smallest horses i have ever seen', for example! donna bothers me because she thinks she is all that. the 'all i have done for you' speeches, etc... she gets on my last nerve. but she is entertaining!

that said, i'm rooting for cousin mike.