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The Great Oxymoron: TV Networks Vs. American Family Values

May 10, 2017

 

 

A Tale Of Two [FOX] Series

[Or how FOX nepotism won out over substance AND women's history. - Webmaster]

 

  Pitch, a new drama series about the first woman to play in major league baseball. - Women You Should Know
"The MICK" - Photo Source: PTC   "PITCH" - Photo Source: WomenYouShouldKnow
 

"THE MICK is a no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase “dysfunctional family.” MACKENZIE aka “MICKEY.” - FOXNetwork

Video Source: FOXNetwork

 

"The all-new FOX Series, PITCH, tells the emotional story of GINNY BAKER who became the first woman to play Major League Baseball." - FOXNetwork

Video Source: FOXNetwork

Series Picked Up By FOX   Series Cancelled By FOX

 

Article by Melissa Henson, May 3, 2017, PTC

 

This week the FOX network announced that it has cancelled Pitch (Executive Producer Kevin Falls), one of the few bright spots – especially for FOX – on the broadcast TV schedule. The series, about the first female pitcher for a major league baseball team, provides a rare example of a positive female role model on TV, but beyond that, it also featured inspiring characters, uplifting messages and relatively family-friendly content. Paris Barclay, who directed the first episode said of the series, “I’ve been aching to have a show I can watch with my family, and now there is one.”

Critics were no less enthusiastic: “One of fall’s most ambitious pilots is also one of its best” (AdWeek), “One of the best (if not the best) pilot of the fall… This one knocks it out of the park!” (E! Online), “Inspirational!” (TV Guide magazine), and on and on…

Meanwhile, The Mick (co-executive producers John and Dave Chernin, sons of Peter Chernin, former President and COO of FOX parent company NewsCorp) — a series about kids behaving badly and irresponsible adults behaving worse — has been picked up for a second season.

But why did The Mick get a second-season pick-up, rather than Pitch?

Maybe The Mick got a second season because of critical acclaim?

The LA Times’ Meredith Blake called The Mick a “shallow exercise in provocation,” then went on to say that “Once the incessant attempts to offend grow wearisome, there’s not enough here to bring you back for another round… There’s no hugging and no learning, but I’m not sure that what the show offers instead — joke after joke relying on the shock value of seeing a child say or do something inappropriate and adults acting irresponsibly.”

The New York Times said, “Without the freedom in language, tone and general obnoxiousness that FXX gives [It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia], the over-the-top situations in The Mick are less likely to make you laugh than to make you feel vaguely uncomfortable.” From the Las Vegas Weekly: “It’s hard to root for the characters to form a makeshift family when all of them are such terrible people, but their terribleness is compromised by the need to make them semi-likable. It’s the worst of both worlds.”

Nope, that’s not it.

Maybe the ratings could explain why it got picked up over Pitch? Pitch actually outperformed The Mick, averaging 3.03 million viewers to The Mick’s 3.02.

And if you take out The Mick’s strong New Year’s Day premiere numbers (when there was little other new content), the gap between Pitch and The Mick’s average rating grows even wider (3.03 to 2.65).

The Mick lost viewers week after week, starting with a strong 8.58 million when it premiered and dropping to 3.37 million by week two, and dwindling down to 2.09 by episode 14. Pitch, by contrast, ended its ten episode run with 2.89 million viewers.

So The Mick isn’t a ratings hit, either. And with the reviews they were getting, it’s doubtful FOX was holding out hope that The Mick would land an Emmy or Golden Globe award.

Maybe we’ll never solve the mystery.

It’s just a shame Pitch’s producer’s last name isn’t “Chernin.”

 

 

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Article by Melissa Henson, May 3, 2017, PTC

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However, When The FOX TV Network Mocked American Troops That Had Been Killed In Vietnam, You Knew It Would Become The Anus Of American TV Network Programming

I made a comment at the time of the video segment shown below that the FOX News Channel could never survive knowing the evolving evil over at the FOX TV Network represented by this segment picked up in the fall of 2012. I was right. - Webmaster

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Just in time for Memorial Day… The Family Guy mocks dead US soldiers from Vietnam War.

Is this why Americans fought? FOX TV Network joyfully mocks Vietnam Vets while FNC adds to profits of the parent company. In this video FOX TV Network refers to the Washington Vietnam Memorial as a ""Score Board." - Webmaster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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