Brian Damage
02-06-2012, 01:29 AM
"The Simpsons"
The longest-running scripted prime-time show in television history had all the odds stacked against it: Not only was "The Simpsons" a spin-off (of its vignettes within "The Tracey Ullman Show") on the fledgling FOX network, but it entered life as a midseason ... morealternate to boot. Looking back, it's understandable (if not hilarious) to imagine the network's execs reasoning that Richard Grieco's insurance-investigator romp "Booker" made for a nice one-two punch with "21 Jump Street." They were wrong, but also very lucky to sub it out for Matt Groening's underdog animated satire about a middle-class family from Springfield.
http://content5.catalog.photos.msn.com/ds/7d925b8d-e710-4497-8ec7-69a83752972b.jpg
http://tv.msn.com/successful-midseason-replacements/photo-gallery/feature/?photoidx=12
The longest-running scripted prime-time show in television history had all the odds stacked against it: Not only was "The Simpsons" a spin-off (of its vignettes within "The Tracey Ullman Show") on the fledgling FOX network, but it entered life as a midseason ... morealternate to boot. Looking back, it's understandable (if not hilarious) to imagine the network's execs reasoning that Richard Grieco's insurance-investigator romp "Booker" made for a nice one-two punch with "21 Jump Street." They were wrong, but also very lucky to sub it out for Matt Groening's underdog animated satire about a middle-class family from Springfield.
http://content5.catalog.photos.msn.com/ds/7d925b8d-e710-4497-8ec7-69a83752972b.jpg
http://tv.msn.com/successful-midseason-replacements/photo-gallery/feature/?photoidx=12