If you produce it, they will come

As a tribute to Carl Reiner, last Friday night CBS aired two colorized versions of classic episodes of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. 

 

How’d they do? 

 

They got Friday night’s biggest audience.  3.73 million viewers. 

 

Pretty good for a couple of 55 year-old episodes of television. 

 

I found this very heartening.  THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW still holds up. 

And it says something more:  There is an audience for smart sophisticated comedy that is grounded in reality and resonates because it explores universal truths. 

 

We still can relate to it today because the situations and emotions resonate.  Clearly, there are societal changes, the show was set in a different era, but human nature is still the same, our wants and foibles haven’t changed. 

 

There are so many shows on so many platforms – why can’t there be one or two that strives for thistoday? 

 

If you produce it, they will come. 

 

from By Ken Levine