Stephen McPherson
Stephen McPherson
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The producers are preparing a great episode that will appeal to new viewers as well as devoted fans. It's the perfect conclusion to one of TV's biggest days.
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We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in. Almost half of the 41 million Hispanics in this country watch only or mostly Spanish language television, and we want to bring that audience to ABC.
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We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in.
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He needed the content. It all starts with the shows.
silly week
This week is kind of a silly week,
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You have to kind of measure your patience based on how you believe in the creative, and there we felt like, unfortunately, it was not going to get better. We needed to make a quick change, and we saw life in The Bachelor, which is cast better than it's been in five years.
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We are going to embrace the fact that she's pregnant.
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Obviously, we're disappointed in 'Commander' ticking down the last few weeks.
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These shows are great additions to our network and continue ABC's creative and ratings momentum. I applaud all the tremendous work that has gone into making both of these series.
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This one has been a real battle, and it's obviously not turned out exactly the way we'd like. But we love Geena, we love the show, and we wanted to give it another shot.
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A lot of people had not seen the shows because they were not English speaking but were TV watchers, and were enthralled with them and wanted more.
broadcast reach viewing
There's 41 million-plus Hispanics in the viewing market, and we're a broadcast network, so if we can reach more people, that's great.
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Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.
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Alias is not going to wind down as it comes to an end, it's going to rev up, and we're going to make it the event it deserves to be.