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"It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

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Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

April 19, 2011

"It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic TV Failure ratings Production Culture Nielsen cancellation Audience Measurement Curator's Note Success is never giving up, or so they say. Failure, on th ...

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Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure"

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Anne Moore Tufts University

April 20, 2011

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Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure" Twin Peaks TV Failure soap operas seriality procedurals mysteries Curator's Note What do we mean by "TV failures"? There are many ways to categorize television failure, but the most ...

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Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

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Cory Barker Bradley University

April 21, 2011

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Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures TV Failure The Sopranos quality TV Lost Coupling Battlestar Galactica ABC Curator's Note The phrase "television failure" recalls high-profile series that couldn’t live ...

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Re: "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

new media upsetting Nielsen's narrative of failure

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Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

Thursday, April 21, 2011 — 5:59 am

But I also see larger efforts at work in the industry to disavow the significance (at least economic) ...

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Measuring New Media

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Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

Thursday, April 21, 2011 — 10:03 am

information. Charlotte’s comment is especially intriguing, not least because HBO, as a paid service, is in ...

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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

"worst" from the very beginning. I think that title has probably only exacerbated further as time has gone ... this one at least gets the conversation going. I would actually love to hear from other people to see ...

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eyes on the prize?

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Anne Moore Tufts University

Friday, April 22, 2011 — 12:20 am

"Stranger in a Strange Land" hinge on its status as the beginning of the endgame for Lost. This makes ... perfect sense, since the biggest appeal of the show (for this viewer, at least) is the intricacy of its ...

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