A more balanced obituary

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Just watched David's episode. While I was never crazy about the series, It was fun seeing him in a major role. David played a college writing teacher who was coaching Willie on his script writing and started dating his sister Nancy. When David got critical and snarky over both the script quality and his abilities, it devastated Willie enough to want to give up writing and cause friction that Nancy didn't want to see him anymore. At the conclusion, turns out David's character was actually projecting his own failure as a playwright and after explaining things to Willie, Nancy decided to go out with him again. David looked quite comfortable in the role and almost looked like he just walked off the set of Night of Dark Shadows - plus he got to smooch with Meredith Baxter.

No, while the total audience number fluctuated somewhat (apparantly there is a small audience range between each tenth of a point)  the actual rating never budged. It was .4 for 8 straight weeks both at 8pm and 9pm. Really bad. Hawaii Five-0 was typically twice that.

Carry her to the RT room and hope he can swap out Julia's.

Catherine's sex hair

the pink slip to his ship that never came in

body that knows the trouble you've seen

After doing some research, the ownership question is yes and no...but mostly yes.

ME TV is owned by Weigel broadcasting and distributed by MGM. Decades is a joint ownership venture with Weigel broadcasting and CBS. When CBS started Start TV, they switched their owned and operated affiliates from Decades to Start. That's why a lot of big cities no longer receive Decades. Here in Orlando, our CBS affiliate which isn't owned by CBS still carries Decades. Our ME TV affiliate here is the NBC affiliate, so ME TV  has more flexibility in getting local stations to carry it. Like Antenna TV, Cozi TV, Start TV and others, they aren't true cable networks and must be broadcast digitally by some network affiliate locally then can be carried by your local cable system.

As far as programming goes, some older shows have fallen into public domain but I suppose it depends on what sort of syndication deal is worked out whether a channel gets it exclusively or if it can run on other channels. I remember a few years ago some local stations that were paying big bucks for the latest sitcoms actually blocked the same shows if they were airing on like TBS or WGN but that went by the wayside. As a consumer, I think the more choices available the better...but we don't necessarily need I Love Lucy on 10 channels..lol.