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post #16 of 19
6/23/11 at 4:30pm
This applies directly to CSI: Miami. No other reason to watch.
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post #17 of 19
6/23/11 at 4:45pm
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Originally Posted by tagutcow View Post
The thing is, eye-candy alone can never keep a series afloat. They try it time and time again, but it never works.

In the last '90s, I used to watch this show called "Push" that starred Jamie Pressly. Actually, everyone in the cast, man and woman alike, was absolutely gorgeous, but I don't think it lasted even a full season.

Please run Baywatch through this algorithm and see if you come up with the same result.

Perhaps the most successful TV show in history. Had no reason to exist other than to put eye candy into bathing suits for the entire 30 minutes.
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post #18 of 19
6/23/11 at 10:48pm
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Please run Baywatch through this algorithm and see if you come up with the same result. Perhaps the most successful TV show in history. Had no reason to exist other than to put eye candy into bathing suits for the entire 30 minutes.
Ha! I just knew someone was gonna call my bluff by mentioning Baywatch. I do think it's a qualified exception, however. Bear in mind that Baywatch's success was largely carried in international markets (it translated pretty easily to foreign languages and cultures,) and, for all the shameless leering shots of buxom hotties, the storylines were generally wholesome and family-friendly enough that parents would let their kids watch it. The success of Baywatch was due, in part, to keeping the target market as wide-open as possible. Whereas most forgettable TV shows with preternaturally attractive casts use the promise of ogling hotties as a kind of carrot-on-a-stick to get the viewer to trudge through the execrable writing and turgid plotting, Baywatch made no such demands; it was basically all-titties-all-the-time. The viewer could invest as much or as little attention into the storyline as he wished, or tune it out entirely. Mind you, I think there were only ever about ten occasions on which I've watched an episode of Baywatch from beginning to end. Of those, approximately five were reruns of the midget dad episode, and about three were reruns of the episode where the unctious French photographer became the romantic interest of ze lovely Peezjhay!
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post #19 of 19
6/24/11 at 1:41am
Like tagut, I watch Wizards of Waverly Place for eyecandy.
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