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22 Nov, 10 tweets, 3 min read
I wonder what not-ancient show has the highest ratio of initial popularity to streaming popularity. I'm thinking "ER". Does anyone sit around and watch "ER"? But it was very popular.
"ER" was a top show in the 90s, not yesterday but not forever ago, contemporary with many other shows that still have fans today, "Seinfeld", "Friends", "Frasier", "The X-Files"...
Boy NBC was just printing money back then. Just stick literally anything on Thursday night before or after one of their other hits, someone will watch it.
Look at this NBC Thursday Night history! Yellow means a top-ten show, and green means the number ONE show.
"Come on everyone, in front of the TV for three hours, it's Thursday Night and we're watching whatever's on NBC. 'Jesse'? Sure, whatever that is. 'Union Square', why not."
Here is a taste of what TV was back then. (Click for a surprise!)
Several people replied that "ER" might not be that different than various other popular/acclaimed pre-"Sopranos" dramas, say. See also law/crime shows like "NYPD Blue", "LA Law", "Homicide"...
The king of this category?
Ok, fair, did not know that, but even if "ER" has a non-trivial streaming audience, it still might win my stated criteria because the initial audience was SO big.
Yes I meant scripted shows.

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