Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:

1. Don't single-camera set-ups and audiences of 3 million say something? To me they say the sitcom's glory days are long in the past, whatever the ad-blurbists say. To the American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers they mean more excuses for their ad fiefdoms to waste their customers' and shareholders' money, however cheaply the junk may be produced.

And cheap it increasingly is:

Many multicamera sitcoms have become too expensive for most broadcast networks to sustain ("Friends," "Seinfeld" and "Frasier" each cost an average $3 million to $5 million an episode in their heyday), with single-camera offering a much more affordable $800,000 to $1.1 million per episode price tag.

Heck why not use iPhones?

2. The MARKETPLACE has made up its mind, loud and clear: there is no place for TINAWEEK. As we've said incessantly there is really no place for any weekly newsrag save The Economist, and that owing to its special circumstances and the blessing of the Bugmeister. The CW already has enough outlets. Why an obsolescent one more?