For The AV Club (yep), I wrote about how NBC held on tight to Friends all the way to its end in 2004, and how there are lessons the networks could learn in 2024 about the dangers of playing it safe for too long. www.avclub.com/friends-nbc-...
NBC lost its nerve when it lost Friends
I would imagine you might have possibly mixed feelings about writing at AV Club again, and I will read you wherever you publish, but let me say…I fucking love it
Even during NBC's 90s must see domination, they would always put the worst sitcoms between their biggest hits while an actual quality sitcom like NEWSRADIO was moved around the schedule constantly. Deserved to be on Thursday way more than SUDDENLY SUSAN
Woohoo!
Great article! And my phone only reloaded the page once, which might be a record for this new iteration.
OH MY GOD!!!
This was great. Wait, is A.V. Club back? Can you explain? I thought it was an empty shell?
Welcome back!!!
Glad to have you back.
It’s a sidebar, but I think someone could do a long-form piece about all the other shows that ran between Seinfeld/Frasier and Friends. Your Single Guy, Boston Commons, etc.
Oh shit I saw this linked out earlier and said "looks interesting but..." but that but has now turned into me clicking on it after finding out you wrote it