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I was just looking back at some of the reviews posted about Moonlight. (CBS 2007) The critic reviews were negative,damaging, and doubtful; but the viewers, were left wanting more (9.4 out of 10). Doesn't this mean anything to the execs at CBS? Why doesn't the person sitting at home watching tv opinions count? Aren't these shows for our entertainment? We do know what we like or we wouldn't watch it. I have to personally say that "That vampire could bite me anytime." Please bring him back.
 
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Well you could take this free time you now have on friday nights to watch all five seasons of the Wire also known as the best television show ever made.
 
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I'm pretty sure the viewers didn't even watch that crappy show, it never scored more than a million viewers in the critical 18-34 year old demo...the networks don't care about the fans or the critics' response to the show, they care about numbers.
 
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This is an interesting topic!

I often wonder how they decide which show will stay and which one is axed...
What wonders me is that I constant read 'great' critics about certain shows but when I look at the ratings published in our TV guides of those shows they get far less viewers than other shows who don't get great critics but get hords of viewers!!!
I think it is still a bit like in the old days when some think that culture is only good for the few educated people (read critics) and the rest of us don't have a clue what is good or bad. And I have a feeling that critics think they only have the good sense to know what is great and what is not! And as they rule the magazines and newspapers many TV channels believe they have to obey those 'lords'...
I rest my case!!!!
 
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Critics are also just like us ,they are not from the other world or they don't have any extra community for which one has to register to be a critic. Any one can be a critic so as you. They don't have the decisive power to run a show but their comments do matter just like a normal viewer. A good critic always speak on true facts and the bad one just like to speak doesn't matter the fact is right or wrong.
 
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but people do have different choices. if i like something that doesn't mean others will also like that. if a critic points out some errors or doesn't like something that doesn't mean that show will be axed. this is a showbiz guys and everything here based upon TRPs.
 
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