Steph Curry, game-show host? For the broadcast networks, summer TV is all in good fun
Once upon a time, before cable and satellite and streaming platforms, there were three (then four, then five, then six, then five) major broadcast networks, and television ran by their clock. Fall was harvest time. In winter and spring, weeds were pulled and new crops planted. And summer was for taking it easy.
Between Memorial and Labor Day, prime time was filled with reruns and what were once called "summer replacement" shows, cost-effective and purposely impermanent. Though these might be revived in subsequent summers, they were born to die when September came.
And yet the world was not worse, and probably a little better, for Bobby Darin, Ken Berry, Helen Reddy, Mac Davis and the team of Melba Moore and Clifton Davis getting the variety show they never could have in TV's more "important"
