Conversely a lot of shows that were hits got canceled when the network tried to move them to another night

@iramadisonthree @afropine100 Leveraging human laziness works.

@iramadisonthree Thinking about how The Good Wife got a lot of viewers because drunk bloated men were too lazy to change the channel after football

@iramadisonthree I watched so much crap in the 90s cause we couldn’t be bothered to change the channel.

@iramadisonthree Sean Hayes and Eric McCormack have a podcast now and they said that “Will & Grace” succeeded because the execs made sure it was on an 830 or 930 time slot so that it could “sneak up on people”

@iramadisonthree Fascinated by the shows that got millions of viewers thanks to those golden timeslots but were canceled after one season for not keeping *enough* of their lead-ins.

@iramadisonthree Not disagreeing with the overall point but wasn’t Friends in the 8:00 time slot for its entire run?

@iramadisonthree Also whut 😶

@iramadisonthree The last great example of this was the seamless segue from RHOBH into the series premiere of Vanderpump Rules.

@iramadisonthree let them know!!!!!

@iramadisonthree This proved to be damaging to NBC in the long-run as they put out a ton of mediocre timeslot hits in the mid-90s through the mid 00s which slowly rotted their brand away. Even then viewers could tell you what they actually liked what was just background noise.

@iramadisonthree Ya friends is one of the biggest shows of all time bc people forgot to turn off their tvs ???

@iramadisonthree I know I watched whole seasons of Darma and Greg and don't remember a single episode just because it was on after Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

@iramadisonthree It’s one of the reasons I’m convinced The Simpsons is still around. It comes on right after football, and people just don’t turn it off.

@iramadisonthree @craigspoplife The youth don’t even know what a “time slot” means. 😆

@iramadisonthree Ok then why is it still one of the most popular shows now. The money they make on residuals each year shows that people did watch the show and still do till this day.

@iramadisonthree Friends: famously about a pack of “sex-starved losers”. So much so that nobody wanted to emulate its characters with, say, a namesake haircut or anything.

@iramadisonthree @BittrScrptReadr The producer of CAGNEY & LACEY told composer Bill Conti to make the theme like it was for a comedy so he could trick and hold the audience of the sitcom airing in the preceding slot.

@iramadisonthree Friends got higher ratings than Mad About You so this isn't exactly true. It also ran for more seasons than MAY and Seinfeld. You don't have to like Friends, but it's a fact that it was a very popular show.

@iramadisonthree Maybe initially but they didn’t last if they didn’t deliver the goods. There are plenty of examples of flops in NBC’s very same Thursday night lineup.