David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. You, apparently, can fool between 4.4- and 5.8-million people all of the time.
Those were the numbers for NBC’s lamentable efforts to make Jonestown Lemonade from the crushed and bitter fruit of a cancelled Golden Globes ceremony: 4.4 sat through the “Dateline” “show” (Jesus, people, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” was premiering! What’s wrong with you?), while 5.8 endured the production announcing the winners (you could’ve seen the same thing, in half the time and sans commercials and Billy Bush, on E!, TV Guide Network and, in L.A., KCBS).
A sizable 18.3 million watched the aforementioned “Terminator.” An average 15.75 million watched CBS’s miniseries “Comanche Moon,” though it lost more than two million viewers over the course of the broadcast.
Of NBC’s Globes coverage, Defamer may have put it best:
“ABC, hope you were taking notes. If any of your ideas for The Oscars resemble any of the ideas that NBC utilized tonight in their sham of a ‘press conference,’ your federal broadcasting license will be revoked.”