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  Re: Working Out The Kinks: Perceived Pilot Quality in Contemporary Network Comedy

  Thanks for the comments

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Monday, September 10, 2012 — 3:22 pm

  Thanks for the comments guy and gal.  Charlotte, your comment about comedies and drama is spot-on. Rarely do good dramas take as long to "find themselves." Dramas often feel more put together from the beginning, so it's more of a consistent ...
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  Re: Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

  Random side-note

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 — 6:43 pm

  Great post Morgan. One thing that you mentioned that isn't necessarily the drive of your piece, but really interested me: So many of Disney (and Nick's, I think) characters in these sitcoms are gridin' to be noticed, to be stars, etc. From ...
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  Re: Quality television-by-numbers: Veena Sud and AMC's failed products and faulty assumptions

  The finale

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Wednesday, November 2, 2011 — 2:46 pm

   JP--  Thanks for the comment! To be honest, I didn't hate the finale as much as most. I think it's still very bad, but only in those last 8-10 minutes. I thought the first 35 were perfectly fine, B-level kind of work that the show was already d ...
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  Re: Nostalgia 2.0: AMC and the Development of Original Retro Programming

  Twitter

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Monday, October 31, 2011 — 6:56 pm

  Great piece, JP. The Mad Men Twitter accounts are particularly intriguing to me. I believe that fans had been running "fake" accounts for characters and eventually, AMC decided to take control of them. I know that the day I started sending email ...
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  Re: The Failure of Failure in Terriers

  Failing audiences

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Monday, April 18, 2011 — 4:55 pm

  Great post, Jason. To Karen's point about her personal experience with Terriers, I wonder how much the groundswell of support for a low-rated series, from both critics and audiences, actually hurts its chances to succeed. I know a number of people wh ...
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  Re: Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

  Good thoughts

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Thursday, April 21, 2011 — 5:27 pm

  Karen: Thanks for the comment. The reason I picked this episode in particular is because it probably is one of, if not THE, most unique as far as my argument goes. The episode was so poorly received by critics and fans (though the ratings weren't AWF ...
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  Re: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

  Thanks

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Wednesday, August 18, 2010 — 10:59 pm

  Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it. I am most intrigued by the story possibilities of social media as well. I think the WWE would be wise to start integrating Twitter and Facebook as platforms to tell their stories. Not only would it blur the l ...
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  Re: A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE

  Danielson

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  Monday, August 16, 2010 — 4:22 am

   Totally random point, but it's funny that you mention Danielson since he *spoiler* actually returned from that suspension tonight at SummerSlam.  Though it was always thought of as a suspension behind the scenes, the WWE "officially" relea ...