NBC has expressed regret about its horrible ratings. We wonder if it'll have an effect on their humiliating and humorless treatment of Christianity, especially Catholicism. Link. Excerpt:
"OK, we're in fourth place ... what are we going to do about it?" NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly said in an appearance before the Television Critics Association.
The network, which fell behind CBS, ABC and Fox in the advertiser-favored young adult demographic in the 2004-05 season, is reinvigorating its creative spirit and discarding some viewer-unfriendly practices, such as starting and ending programs off the hour, he said.
"Last season for us was kind of like a colonic," he said. "It wasn't a lot of fun to go through at the time, but it's going to be healthy in the long run. It literally took any residual sense of entitlement or complacency at our company and blew it out."
When NBC, which is a unit of Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Co., was riding high on the strength of now-departed comedies including "Friends" and "Frasier," it had acquired a reputation among observers as verging on arrogant - wags said NBC stood for "Nothing But Cocky."
