![]() Judge orders halt to California wetlands restoration project.CEOs booted at California tech company that furloughed all 900 employees.Chance of rain, 'heavy downpours' head toward San Francisco Bay Area. ![]() Horoscope for Monday, 6/05/23 by Christopher Renstrom.My wife's grandmother, who can barely be dislodged from CBS in any event, has been glued to "MSW" largely because she read that Lansbury wore her own wardrobe on the show, and wasn't the star always the model of immaculate style?īut it's painful to have seen Sunday's concluding episode and realize how far "MSW" has slipped from the days when Richard Levinson and William Link oversaw the scripts and production. Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher was a poster girl for attributes that have slipped from their moorings in recent years - graciousness, loyalty, taste. The subject was murder, but "MSW" served up bloodless mysteries and minded its language. I know they responded to the show's civility. I'll bet those seniors gleaned some rueful gratification at seeing Jessica (Lansbury) catch young killers week after week and send those presumptuous whippersnappers straight to the whipperslammer for the rest of their miserable lives. And they knew there was nothing they could do about it. The show's loyal viewers knew they were being manhandled by a network desperate to develop and cater to a youthful audience. CBS returned it to Sundays for its final few episodes. This past season, CBS finally did "MSW" the indignity of evicting it from Sunday night - where it had stood up to 43 competing series over the years - and moving it to a lost-cause time slot on Thursdays. But it didn't attract the right viewers to excite advertisers. "MSW" was a hit in the old-fashioned way - pure household ratings. "MSW" was the favorite show of everyone's grandmother and maiden aunt. Prime-time shows have become targeted missiles delivering commercials to niche audiences, preferably young adults. Sunday's finale is called "Death by Demographics," which is not an exceptionally subtle jab at the fact that the TV industry tended to minimize "MSW's" success. on Channel 5) as the series closes shop and retires as the longest-running detective series in TV history.ĬBS and the Universal studio are withholding the official announcement, but Angela Lansbury is expected to return next season for a couple of "Murder, She Wrote" TV movies. The 286th victim, kebobbed by a fireplace poker, succumbs this Sunday (8 p.m. There were 64 murders in the tiny town of Cabot Cove alone, limiting growth and surely playing havoc with the highway sign listing the village's population. By actual calculation, the "MSW" body count hit 286 over 264 episodes in 12 years.
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