Really, nick@nite?

Yesterday, I was watching nick@nite , and I was horrified to see a bumper promoting a show that’s coming soon. No, not Friends (Which is going to come this September, according to Wikipedia and some other sites), but That 70’s Show. I understand that I’m usually overreacting about nick@nite’s programming, but I have some ‘legitimate’ reasons for why I don’t want That 70’s Show on nick@nite:

It’s already on three other cable channels – ABC Family, MTV, and TeenNick. Okay, so TeenNick is a premium cable channel, but it’s also on local affiliates.

It’s REALLY out of the target demographic- A show about teenagers on a block with most shows revolving around families. Those teens also smoke pot. I hate to sound like a prude soccer mom who gets offended, but how do the nick@nite executives expect the target audience, families/soccer moms, to like this?

nick@nite has enough shows on their block- On the nick@nite website, they advertise eight shows. Three of them used to get shown a lot, but now are gone or are put on the graveyard slots (The Cosby Show, Home Improvement, and Family Matters). One of them is more or less gone, but nobody’s complaining (Glenn Martin DDS). That leaves Everybody Hates Chris, My Wife and Kids, George Lopez, and The Nanny.

Sadly, nick@nite doesn’t know how to organize those four shows, either. EHC and My Wife and Kids usually fight for any slot before 10:00 PM. George Lopez and My Wife and Kids generally have at least one marathon a month each. And they usually give The Nanny any slot which they other shows haven’t claimed, which barely happens. Now with a fifth show, The Nanny and possibly EHC will get neglected even more.

I get that the nick@nite executives probably figured “Hey, we could get the teen demographic, and since Viacom already has rights to air it from TeenNick and MTV, it won’t cost us as much!”, but really. This isn’t expanding your horizons.

And what happened to their other shows? I remember they used to have The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Full House, but they seemed to just cut both of those out of the schedule.

All of this has me slightly worried. In around five years, will nick@nite consist of Two and a Half Men, According to Jim, and Everybody Loves Raymond, along with My Wife and Kids and George Lopez? Will this happen to TVLand, too?

Take That, EA!

Recently, Fox DC just found out about EA’s horrible exchange (Not the kind of publicity you want when you’re promoting a ‘Family’ expabsion pack, EA). Way to go, Fox and soccer moms(There’s a sentence I thought I’d never say)! This is definitely a big step, and hopefully other news stations and media will report about it after seeing it on Fox. And then the rest of EA’s antics will be discovered, and the world will be happily ever after!

Okay, probably not. In fact, the only thing that could probably happen is that EA becomes stricter on their forum, banning innocent people, yet keeping trolls unbanned. But at least this shows that people are willing to listen. And at least it’s on Google’s News Results for The Sims 3.

Prom-ises, Prom-ises

Earlier this month, Boy Meets World’s Season 5 DVD was released. This is good, for a couple of reasons. First, the only channel that plays Boy Meets World now is ABC Family, and that’s at 7 AM. Sure, I could just DVR it, but my parents more or less claimed the DVR feature, so it’s not really an option for me. Second, season 5 has two episodes that were always banned on Disney Channel, Boy Meets World’s original rerun home. And Disney played BMW on times when people were actually able to watch it. So now fans are able to watch those episodes (Even if they’ve had the black market option for a while now…).

I think the Season 6 DVD is coming in July? While this is kind of quick (3 DVDs in less than a year), I’m glad that the Lionsgate Entertainment company is releasing them quickly, after the 5 year wait Disney put fans through. Maybe they could buy rights for The Nanny, as well?

And yesterday, All About Style made some nice prom dresses for teens, to get ready for Generations.

I guess Generations has some perks, after all.

The Sims 3 Generations is Coming Too Soon

When I first heard that The Sims 3 Generations is going to be the next expansion pack, I was excited. When EA finally confirmed it and told us what there would be, though, I got disappointed. No new skills (Though videotaping and/or the chemistry set could have easily been skills), only one new career, no new towns, and the price will still probably be $39.99. What gives, EA? I know you guys are a screwed up company, but you usually put more content in your games. Late Night had four new skills, a town, two new careers, clubbing, celebrities, and vampires. Ambitions had professions, two skills, a town, and traits. But this expansion pack has enough content for around $29.99.

I probably won’t be rushing to the store to get this game. I’ll probably only buy this game if I read lots of good reviews for it (Or if EA leaves money in the box…).

How I Met Your Mother Rant

The following blog post will contain spoilers if you haven’t seen the May 9th episode of How I Met Your Mother. If you haven’t seen it yet and you don’t want spoilers, don’t read on.

This week on How I Met Your Mother, Ted had to make an important decision on the whole “Arcadian VS GNB Building Plan” Debacle. Originally, Ted was going to choose to demolish the Arcadian, an old hotel. However, there were protests going on about it, and the head protestor, Zoey, had UST with Ted. But Zoey was unhappily married to some guy. They later break up, and Zoey and Ted begin to date. At first, they seemed to work out, but Ted’s friends would always be like “You can’t date someone who’s against the GNB building”, and Ted would reply with “Cross that bridge when we go to it”. Anyway, Zoey told Ted how she used to live there because her family was poor, and then he didn’t want to tear it down. This week, though, it was revealed that Barney would lose his job if Ted didn’t get the Arcadian torn down. Ted decided that Barney was more important than Zoey, so he decides to tear down the Arcadian. Ted and Zoey then break up.

That decision pissed me off. I mean, yeah sure, Ted’s supposed to be a good friend and all, but if it was the other way around, Barney would shrug and tell Ted “Not my problem”. I know that Barney has known Ted longer than Zoey has, and that Ted’s supposed to be the good friend, but Barney’s screwed up Ted’s life before already. It wouldn’t hurt if Barney got fired. Besides, the show would probably have him get his job back in 2 minutes by doing something Marty-Stu-ish.

It always bugs me how Barney is so lucky in the show. Yeah sure, his family life is screwed up, he probably has hundreds of STDs, and he’s emotionally messed up, but the show never portrays him or his decisions as the “Wrong one”. His womanizing and jerk ways are always portrayed comically. And they always give Barney the Large Ham scenes. He always has dream sequences, elaborate costumes, and the craziest plotlines. And meanwhile, Lily and Robin have little episodes about them.

Okay, so this was more of a "I don’t care too much about Barney” blog post, but still. xD

Yes, I’m Still Here

It’s not like anyone was asking, but still.

And I wrote this post Thursday, but Blogger wouldn’t let me publish it, so here it is.

This week hasn’t been the best homework-wise, but oh well, those things aren’t such shocks now.

I didn’t have that much homework today, so I watched some Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and I played Just Dance 2. And I’ve been downloading some custom content.

This week I’ve had lots of allergies, and I didn’t want to take medication because I usually get really drowsy taking it, but I took some yesterday and I feel better again. 

I have ‘actual’ stuff to blog about (I.E. not just how my day went posts) but I’ll do that tomorrow.