“skewed too female for the network’s schedule” nice to know CBS still really cares about women!!!! (x)
“It tested well with audiences.” Who do you want to watch your show? An audience. So what should matter before you decide what to pick up? The audience’s opinion! And who are 50% of the world’s population and thus 50% of their potential audience? Exactly, WOMEN! Will they EVER learn?
#What is weird to me is that Drew skewed too female but Katherine Heigl’s show got picked up#Drew on the other hand boasted a very diverse cast and they racebent Nancy#which may have brought the racists out of the woodwork#not unlike the James Olsen response when Mechad was cast#so I wonder if this is a case like Lucy Liu on Elementary where she called out all the people who focused on the gender rather than race#because it is easier to say you don’t like that you cast a woman/something is ‘too female skewed’#than to say that doesn’t look like my Nancy Drew and I don’t like it – @dealanexmachina
While I’m sure sexism played a part (I doubt they want their procedurals that would theoretically play to the 18-49 year old demographic actually being too popular with women) Kay makes a great point. There is no way CBS actually thinks NCIS or Criminal Minds – their flagship shows – are pulling in majority male audiences. Not with Mark Harmon and Joe Mantegna at the helms respectively. So there’s a damn good chance it wasn’t actually that something was ‘too popular with women’ its that it wasn’t popular enough with racists.