I think we may be talking about two different things. Your issue, you wrote, is that people are becoming too offended to talk about the past, and the risk is that we'll forget about it. I agree that that is a bad outcome. As you wrote, slavery and the Civil War did happen and we need to own it. Thi...

I'd like to step in here for a moment and thank everyone for the way they have handled this discussion. Topics like this are very interesting, and the conversation is important, yet too often these things can devolve into something not pretty quite quickly. Civility in 2018. Who knew? Carry on .......

A 22.6 rating in both 1982-1983 and in 1983-84. 83+/- Million TVs, and 22.6%... 18,750,000+/- MPI dropped to 19.1 the next year due to Cosby. 15,850,000+/- The pie is now 120M+/- set, or 50% larger, and the shows pull <50% of the older shows. Even the biggest hits are weak by comparison. Apples and ...

I know they are irreplaceable, but it's still a cool exercise. I'd say that the Higgins role should be a bit shorter than TM. That contrast helped give that extra layer of gravitas to Higgins. His gravitas was counter to the physical difference in height. Just like Jay H. doesn't have that physical ...

I just read a post about the declining ratings since the series premiere of the reboot, and I expect that the panic will cause a flight to a gimmick at some point later this season or the second at most. So, what would be a GREAT gimmick? How about TS, LM, and RM reprise their roles for a single epi...

Grant was from Ohio, Lee was from Virginia. Lee supported/led the side that he was from. I doubt someone from the South would fight on the Union side, and certainly not lead them. I'm sure he felt he was fighting on the right side and for him his cause was a just cause. We're looking at this throug...

Grant was from Ohio, Lee was from Virginia. Lee supported/led the side that he was from. I doubt someone from the South would fight on the Union side, and certainly not lead them. I'm sure he felt he was fighting on the right side and for him his cause was a just cause. We're looking at this throug...

It's interesting that you guys have started talking about 17A. I count 16A, 17A, and the Federal Reserve to be 3 of the worst things to ever happen in American history. There are others, but those are my top 3. The era was a time of MASSIVE change! Within a few years, states were stripped of their ...

Thanks Kevster. You have uncanny timing! I'm currently teaching a unit on the Progressive Era and was recently discussing with a colleague how the Senate might look and function differently today if the state legislatures still selected them. Just sort of a thought experiment for fun. Your point ab...

They sure are subtle... Especially the last guy!

I don't buy into all the nonsense about removing Robert E. Lee statues/monuments, as if he was some evil person. That's ridiculous! The man was the leader of the Confederate Army, no better or worse than Ulysses S. Grant who led the Union Army. Two generals on opposite sides of a conflict. This was...

Characterizing people's concerns over the honoring of Confederate soldiers as "throwing a temper tantrum" is disingenuous. Is it childish to hold the belief that other aspects of our history are more deserving of celebration? As has been stated above, the history doesn't go away if the statue comes...

Hi Reef Monkey. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I don't claim to be the world's foremost historian, and I'm not here to argue. I think my point is true; maybe I chose a bad example, but the Civil War monument topplings I see have nothing to do with restoring history. Either way, I trust that you k...

As the subject says, Encore has shifted the time slot for MPI. It was 6:12+/- prior to a 7PM Mad About You twofer, but now MPI is to follow M.A.Y. Staying in the same place in the episode order, just shifted later.

So, weeknight prime time MPI on Encore!