They’ve lost some of their core properties and now they have to struggle the way everyone has to struggle when they lose their core properties,

I think Judge Judy is, like Oprah, sort of the star of her genre.

It’s been a slowly building situation, … and there’s a lot of pressure on them to come up with something that will work.

Every year they come back with less of an audience, … so the more they can do to sustain themselves (in summer), the better.

We know that viewing levels increase in September because the weather starts getting a little cooler, it gets darker a little earlier, viewers are already conditioned to be looking for new programming.

Every year, the networks lose a little more audience, and cable gains in the summertime.

What you’re seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they’ve all diversified into science fiction.

Viewers are conditioned to expect a big premiere week at the end of September.

I think a lot of the ‘Joan’ fans are attacking the show in the chat rooms.

Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 are probably the toughest battlegrounds.

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You could say in many ways it is a breakout,

This year there was no Winter Olympics to precede it, so there was a little bit of loss in the hype in the anticipation of the Summer Olympics.

Her fans are her fans. Even if they do want to see any of these new shows, they’re not going to leave her show.

People who had heard about it had a chance to … catch up and see what they missed over the summer. Also, it’s got an extraordinarily strong fan culture around the show. … There’s lots...

You still are getting a very large audience. It’s not as if it’s not an event simply because ratings aren’t as high as they used to be.

I looked at the data for the show and it was No. 1 in terms of positive buzz, … I said, ‘Ah, shoot, this thing doesn’t work.’