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5. What is your basis of saying that a show with liberal leanings wouldn't get on TV?

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:43 PM

Sep 2018

Network programming isn't "red" and it isn't "blue"; it's "green". If there's an audience, the show will get produced.

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If M*A*S*H were written by Republicans . . . [View all] ProfessorPlum Sep 2018 OP

Tim Allen would be the main character Va Lefty Sep 2018 #1

Wayne Rogers was a main character in the beginning and Marie Marie Sep 2018 #6

you may be conflating wayne rogers ProfessorPlum Sep 2018 #7

It would be as unfunny and whiny as a 2018 Dennis Miller routine. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #2

Not so quick there. MASH was originally written with a Viet Nam backdrop. Trust Buster Sep 2018 #4