I decided to turn on my television this evening. I was flipping through the precious few channels I receive as I'm an over-the-air kinda guy. I then found myself looking at CBS. I swear that eye still looks at me like it hasn't already seen me enough over that past 50 years. I was look at an episode of the TV series reboot of "The Equalizer." I believe there were a few big screen adaptations also made. Anyway, I see the actor Adam Goldberg and I'm thinking 'I really miss The Jim Gaffigan Show' but I digress. One of the next scenes shows the star Queen Latifah talking to Chris Noth. Is she telling him to lay low until all of the sexual predator stuff blows over? No, this is an actual episode, albeit a repeat. How can he still be in a network's prime time lineup?
Hmmmm. I changed the channel as the show isn't for me (most aren't) and now I'm ABC and there showing a repeat episode of "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune." I'm a game show geek and the episode they were airing again was the episode featuring Jeff Garlin. Really? He got sacked from "The Goldbergs" for reasons that may or not become much clearer over time. How can he be still 'over-the-air?'
Do these networks think we don't care what's on now because it's the day after Christmas and Mom is tired from having to kiss Santa in exchange for gifts to give the kiddos? Or is it because Dad is snuggled up on the couch and petting his nearly empty bottle of Vodka? Is it because there is absolutely nothing else to show on Sunday evenings? Those networks could burn off those unsold pilots like they used to do during my childhood. Or run a pre-taped special looking back at the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu? All of the networks have those stored away somewhere.
Or is it a day after Christmas miracle? I'm sure it all depends on who you ask.
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