If the New York Times is to be believed, we’re in for a dire season of network TV come Fall. More rural sitcoms and divorce comedies, plus talking animals. I do love the horribly inappropriate name “Touch ‘Em All McCall” featuring Tom Selleck coaching a baseball team. But the prize has to go to a planned series called “Ripples”
with Adam Arkin and Diane Farr as a couple married for 4,000 years. It’s a time-shifting comedy from two former writers for “Seinfeld,” a hugely profitable show for NBC. Could “The Ripples” run for seven seasons, and then be sold to a syndicator for $4 million an episode in reruns? Or would it disintegrate in a matter of a few weeks, by frittering away coveted 18-to-49-year-old viewers from its lead-in?
I’ll predict the latter.
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