Sarah Palin would approve of my home town. Though I wasn’t here in 2008, I would be surprised if she weren’t at least somewhat popular here.
Since moving here, I have been contacted by Arbitron once, and Nielson twice now. Prior to moving here, I had never been a part of either survey. Given that I don’t live in Peoria or Galveston or Missouri or any other place often considered demographically representative of the whole – even in Middle America or what-have-you, my county is a red outlier – I find the interest interesting. I mentioned this to the latest Nielson rep, who assured me that it was all random. But they seem inordinately interested in what we outliers watch and listen to. Okay, not so much for Arbitron since that’s all about local competition and not national networks, but still. (The Arbitron thing is particularly laughable because we have three radio stations: Pop, Christian, and Country. I listened to no radio that week. But they paid me the $2 anyway for my participation.)
ABC is the grand beneficiary. Completely by luck, I’ve been catching up on my ABC shows this week. If Awake gets renewed (and you like it): You’re welcome.
How is Awake? I caught the first episode and the premise was interesting, but I didn’t really connect to any of the characters. I’m also worried that it will be more of a standard cop show with a gimmick than a real exploration of dreams and reality.
So far I think “standard cop show with a gimmick” is a fair description. There are hints that it will become more than that. I am thinking it’ll be like Fringe where it takes a little while to pull itself into its direction.
If you’d put in a word for Justified next time they call, I’d consider it a solid.
Alas, I don’t get FX (Dish Network is not very friendly to it, probably because of the Fox/DirecTV history). I guess I will when the football season starts again.
Pretty sure Awake was canceled last week.
Ha! You are correct! I should have paid more attention. I actually delayed getting caught up on Alcatraz for that reason (throwing my support behind a show that’s already been canceled).