Post by shmeep on Dec 12, 2006 12:46:02 GMT -5
This is a subject that has come up from time to time since the beginning, but this is making me want to give it its own thread:
Um, I have to disagree. It may have been different in different parts of the country, but where I live, Blind Justice was heavily promoted in the weeks leading up to its premiere and for at least the first half of its run. ...
Never advertised???!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
?? Like mlm, where I live it was on every train, subway station, bus, poster over Times Square, ABC with its 40 minute promotions about the show.....
Thanks, I got a good laugh over that one!
How did you first hear of Blind Justice? When? In what medium/s? This is interesting to me because we all live all over the country/world and some of us watch a lot more television than others and some of us are--ahem!--more likely to see a billboard than others (am I right, Carl?
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Here in the Greater DC area, it was heavily advertised. I didn't see any billboards, but it was definitely on quite a few busses. The first time I was exposed to the concept of the show, though, was probably in Early January. I heard a commercial from another room and thought I had heard wrong because such a show would never be made on mainstream television. I thought maybe it was a joke or a parody or I was just imagining things. A few hours later another commercial came on and I was amazed--and pretty giddy. It seemed like a made-for-shmeep kind of show, complete with Ron Eldard, someone I vaguely recalled being charmed by during his ER days. The cruel part was that I had to wait two months to see the darn thing. I started doing internet research but, at that point, most of what I found had to do with how badly the show would tank and how long it would be before ABC took it off the air. I resigned myself to its failure early on, deciding that I would see each episode as a gift but not ever expecting to see all thirteen. The day it aired, I heard my first radio commercial for the show. It was probably on more than that, but I seldom listen to radio stations that would advertise a TV show.
The TV ad campaign went strong for the first three weeks, but after that I was lucky to see one Blind Justice ad in a three-hour block of ABC programming. The bus ads started thinning out and I almost never saw one toward the end of the series run. The last one I saw was about a week after we knew the show was canceled.
As for how it was reviewed, that was mixed. I read every review I could get my hands on. Those who couldn't get past the premise were more negative than not, although most praised Ron Eldard's acting. Some reviewers seemed to think it was a decent show, but run-of-the-mill from a procedural standpoint. One of the most positive reviewers was Matt Rousch from TV Guide. His initial review was mostly positive, but he called the show "uneven," which to him means that when it's great, it's really great, but there may be some rough patches in between. In the weeks that followed, whenever someone asked him about the show in his column, he praised it and a couple of times he even brought it up on his own as an example of what he liked to watch in that time slot. I really appreciated his take on the show, but he never really championed it as he is currently championing Friday Night Lights.
And we all know that it was mocked and parodied on Letterman and Talk Soup. I'm sure the people who only saw bits from those shows thought it was too ridiculous to watch.
divinemrse said:
mlm828 said:
carl1951 said:
the critics were relentless. Not one good word said. It never was advertised.Um, I have to disagree. It may have been different in different parts of the country, but where I live, Blind Justice was heavily promoted in the weeks leading up to its premiere and for at least the first half of its run. ...
Never advertised???!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
?? Like mlm, where I live it was on every train, subway station, bus, poster over Times Square, ABC with its 40 minute promotions about the show.....Thanks, I got a good laugh over that one!
How did you first hear of Blind Justice? When? In what medium/s? This is interesting to me because we all live all over the country/world and some of us watch a lot more television than others and some of us are--ahem!--more likely to see a billboard than others (am I right, Carl?
).Here in the Greater DC area, it was heavily advertised. I didn't see any billboards, but it was definitely on quite a few busses. The first time I was exposed to the concept of the show, though, was probably in Early January. I heard a commercial from another room and thought I had heard wrong because such a show would never be made on mainstream television. I thought maybe it was a joke or a parody or I was just imagining things. A few hours later another commercial came on and I was amazed--and pretty giddy. It seemed like a made-for-shmeep kind of show, complete with Ron Eldard, someone I vaguely recalled being charmed by during his ER days. The cruel part was that I had to wait two months to see the darn thing. I started doing internet research but, at that point, most of what I found had to do with how badly the show would tank and how long it would be before ABC took it off the air. I resigned myself to its failure early on, deciding that I would see each episode as a gift but not ever expecting to see all thirteen. The day it aired, I heard my first radio commercial for the show. It was probably on more than that, but I seldom listen to radio stations that would advertise a TV show.
The TV ad campaign went strong for the first three weeks, but after that I was lucky to see one Blind Justice ad in a three-hour block of ABC programming. The bus ads started thinning out and I almost never saw one toward the end of the series run. The last one I saw was about a week after we knew the show was canceled.
As for how it was reviewed, that was mixed. I read every review I could get my hands on. Those who couldn't get past the premise were more negative than not, although most praised Ron Eldard's acting. Some reviewers seemed to think it was a decent show, but run-of-the-mill from a procedural standpoint. One of the most positive reviewers was Matt Rousch from TV Guide. His initial review was mostly positive, but he called the show "uneven," which to him means that when it's great, it's really great, but there may be some rough patches in between. In the weeks that followed, whenever someone asked him about the show in his column, he praised it and a couple of times he even brought it up on his own as an example of what he liked to watch in that time slot. I really appreciated his take on the show, but he never really championed it as he is currently championing Friday Night Lights.
And we all know that it was mocked and parodied on Letterman and Talk Soup. I'm sure the people who only saw bits from those shows thought it was too ridiculous to watch.
