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07-03-2014, 06:16 PM
How the New York Post may have caused ‘Seinfeld’s’ early demise
By Richard Johnson
July 2, 2014 | 5:06pm
Jerry Seinfeld was so afraid a New York Post poll would show that “Seinfeld” had “jumped the shark” that he may have ended the sitcom prematurely.
Adam Buckman, The Post’s TV editor and TV columnist for 18 years, reveals in “Jerk: How I Wasted My Life Watching Television” how in 1997, he promoted “an innocuous fax poll.”
Seinfeld called the editor-in-chief that Friday to try to have the poll results killed.
“The editor refused on the basis that we had already promised we would publish them that weekend,” Buckman wrote. “So he got Seinfeld to agree to an interview that afternoon that we would run next to the poll results.”
“As for the poll results, they ran 50-50, and were largely meaningless. But just about two months later, Seinfeld made the famous Christmas Day announcement that he would end the show that spring. Our poll may or may not have had something to do with that.”
http://pagesix.com/2014/07/02/how-the-new-york-post-may-have-caused-seinfelds-early-demise/
By Richard Johnson
July 2, 2014 | 5:06pm
Jerry Seinfeld was so afraid a New York Post poll would show that “Seinfeld” had “jumped the shark” that he may have ended the sitcom prematurely.
Adam Buckman, The Post’s TV editor and TV columnist for 18 years, reveals in “Jerk: How I Wasted My Life Watching Television” how in 1997, he promoted “an innocuous fax poll.”
Seinfeld called the editor-in-chief that Friday to try to have the poll results killed.
“The editor refused on the basis that we had already promised we would publish them that weekend,” Buckman wrote. “So he got Seinfeld to agree to an interview that afternoon that we would run next to the poll results.”
“As for the poll results, they ran 50-50, and were largely meaningless. But just about two months later, Seinfeld made the famous Christmas Day announcement that he would end the show that spring. Our poll may or may not have had something to do with that.”
http://pagesix.com/2014/07/02/how-the-new-york-post-may-have-caused-seinfelds-early-demise/