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tvsquad.com - 1/7/2008
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( S19E10) "To Springfield!"
"Which one?"
"The one where The Simpsons live."
My oh my, was this a jam-packed episode of The Simpsons or what? I haven't seen this many sight gags in one installment of the show for the longest time. Not only that, but this was probably the first episode of the season where Homer and the rest of the family took a back seat to the rest of Springfield's ...
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Does sponsorship demean TV?
Television & radio: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk —
... go through sponsors like Lindsay Lohan goes through red lights. It's not about the brand being an appropriate fit with the show, it's just about the numbers. (This has also made the sponsors' bumpery bits - technical term; don't let it confuse you! - less interesting too.) So when Channel 4 nabbed The Simpsons , Pizza Hut won the battle to sponsor it. But so powerful was the association between the show and Domino's Pizza, its sponsor on Sky One, that apparently research showed that folks still thought it was sponsored by Domino's on terrestrial. (I find it difficult to ...
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