The entire time binge watching Downton Abbey a couple weeks ago I had the strangest feeling that I’ve seen all these people before. Each season, as new characters were introduced, I was struck with the feeling that I knew them. Finally, I caught up entirely and had to share my findings with the world. Yes, I know everyone thinks that Mary Crawley looks like Keira Knightley, but I don’t see it. I think they’re just familiar with Keira Knightley playing period piece damsels. However, literally….
I knew this sounded familiar.
I really hate all the blaming of “so-called” fans of Conan O’Brien. It was constantly repeated in Oprah’s discussion with her audience after the Interview with Jay Leno. Ninety-seven percent of her audience was on Conan’s side, and she asked several times, “Where were you when he needed you?” Two of the fans in the audience admitted to not watching him religiously.
I mentioned my position on the late night craziness earlier, but came across some interesting facts to post. First of all, I want to say that the future of television is going to be very different. It’s going to have to be. With DVRs and the Internet, people don’t watch TV like they used to and it’s only going to become more affected as time goes on. So, they have to create a new business model for it.
First of all, it does no good bashing NBC on moral grounds over this. They have always been an uncaring and greedy corporation. However, they haven’t always been idiots. So, yes the executives are all being assholes with the whole debacle of trying to have their cakes and eat them too, but from a business standpoint you can’t blame them for having that goal. It’s what every for-profit enterprise should have its sights set on. You can blame them for going down a route that….