Wings had a four night marathon. With only six episodes a night beginning at Ten. Of course, The Cosby Show had to start off the night. However, Roseanne gets a five night marathon and The Cosby Show does NOT start the night. Plus, Roseanne goes on all through the night. This shows that N@N, right out of the gate treated Wings like a B-Show. Everyone is getting upset about Cheers losing an episode, but the thing about that is, Cheers has been on N@N for a couple years now. Wings was on for like a week and then shrunk to a half-hour.

I swear N@N is turning into the networks. Now when a sitcom is low rated in the beginning, it's cancelled. Whereas in the decades before now, if a show was low rated, it was given time and some eventually grew into classics. N@N is now the same way. If the show doesn't get impressive ratings from the beginning, well then it's pushed to the late hours and forgotten.


This ad shows that N@N plays favorites.
Full House - Coming Soon
Roseanne - Coming Soon
The Cosby Show - 12:00am & 12:30am
Cheers - 1:30am

Oh BOY, do I agree with you, Adam!

"Wings" had one foot in the grave from Day #1 on NICK. (Have you noticed how NICK is advertising the HECK out of "Roseanne"? I don't remember THAT kind of red-carpet welcome for "Wings"!)

It STILL makes me wonder why NICK purchased "Wings" in the FIRST place....They never gave the show a decent chance!

I agree. They didn't give Wings much of a chance at all. I do remember them promoting it quite a bit, but they still gave the show barely enough time to develop a decent audience. Plus, it started on N@N when the Iraq war was starting, so more people were probably watching the news. I know I was watching more news those few weeks than I usually do.

Maybe now that Tony won an Emmy, N@N might try latching onto Monk's popularity and give Wings another shot.

Originally posted by pilotguy
Oh BOY, do I agree with you, Adam!

"Wings" had one foot in the grave from Day #1 on NICK. (Have you noticed how NICK is advertising the HECK out of "Roseanne"? I don't remember THAT kind of red-carpet welcome for "Wings"!)

It STILL makes me wonder why NICK purchased "Wings" in the FIRST place....They never gave the show a decent chance!

Viacom owns Paramount and Nick as well.
Viacom supposedly wants the licences to their shows to be pulled out of regional/
Superstation venues and put on their own networks, kind of like what Universal
has been doing with USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel for a while.
Universal is the reason why USAM was cancelled.
They no longer wanted to show Sony Pictures Entertainment/Viacom packages (USAM
was almost wholly made up of SPE shows).
So now USA shows almost nothing but what Uni owns.
It's the 'branding' of television, sad, but true.