Blues Clues for Grownups
Blues Clues was sort of the replacement for Sesame Street and it was heavily researched with actual preschoolers to see what worked. They broadcast the same episode once a day for five days in a row, Monday through Friday.
The kids loved it and by Thursday or Friday they would be shouting the answer to the questions asked, having learned those answers over the course of seeing the show repeatedly on previous days. What would have bored adults enthralled small children eager to learn cool new things.
When HGTV started, it had three hours a day of original programming in the evening modeled after This Old House. They played that three hours of original programming twice a day and then a few shows also repeated on Saturday.
I was a homemaker on the West Coast, so I was usually able to watch both or all three time slots of shows I liked. I was in an apartment at the time, so I began doing a lot of small craft projects rather than serious remodeling, but I treated it like Blues Clues for grownups.
Over time, HGTV got more monied, forgot its roots and stopped being Blues Clues for grownups. It morphed into Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless.
Like HGTV, if anything that started as budget-friendly but highly visual starts to rake in the dough, it tends to lose a lot of what made it wonderful for an ordinary person trying to meet their own needs.
I've spent a lot of years interested in those budget-friendly, lightweight solutions in myriad categories while wondering if I would promptly lose sight of that if I ever had any meaningful financial success.
The kids loved it and by Thursday or Friday they would be shouting the answer to the questions asked, having learned those answers over the course of seeing the show repeatedly on previous days. What would have bored adults enthralled small children eager to learn cool new things.
When HGTV started, it had three hours a day of original programming in the evening modeled after This Old House. They played that three hours of original programming twice a day and then a few shows also repeated on Saturday.
I was a homemaker on the West Coast, so I was usually able to watch both or all three time slots of shows I liked. I was in an apartment at the time, so I began doing a lot of small craft projects rather than serious remodeling, but I treated it like Blues Clues for grownups.
Over time, HGTV got more monied, forgot its roots and stopped being Blues Clues for grownups. It morphed into Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless.
Like HGTV, if anything that started as budget-friendly but highly visual starts to rake in the dough, it tends to lose a lot of what made it wonderful for an ordinary person trying to meet their own needs.
When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled.
-- Africa proverb
I've spent a lot of years interested in those budget-friendly, lightweight solutions in myriad categories while wondering if I would promptly lose sight of that if I ever had any meaningful financial success.