Let's Say Thanks...

A friend of mine with a great blog of her own had this link on her site today...

Xerox (yes, the copy company) has created a website where people can select a thank-you card to send to the troops overseas. Xerox will print it and send it to a randomnly selected soldier.

It's free and it takes about 30 seconds. You select a card design, then choose the message y-ou want or create your own message. The only personal information you include is your name, city and state so the soldiers get an idea of all the people who are thinking about them. If you get a chance, please take the time to do this and encourage others to do the same. I hope we flood their mailboxes. We can never say enough thank you's to these brave men and women.

- Ann

Adios & Au Revoir

It's that time of the fall TV season that viewers both fear and welcome- networks have begun to announce the shows that just can't hack it and are being canceled....

The ladies at InLine are in mourning this morning... our water cooler show, 'Lipstick Jungle', was canceled by NBC yesterday. Along with Lipstick, the network has also pulled the plug on the much-hyped 'My Own Worst Enemy' starring Christian Slater.

We knew the future wasn't great for 'Lipstick', especially when it moved to Fridays, which is often considered a dead zone for prime programming. Only 'Ghost Whisperer' and 'Numb3rs' on CBS have stood the test of time there. So, while the future was bleak, we still had high hopes. Unfortunately, the return of Andrew McCarthy was short-lived and is now over. After 'Cashmere Mafia' was canceled quickly last year, we needed 'Lipstick' to get our 'chick-dramedy' weekly fix. Now, sadly, our DVRs will all be a little less full...

Much more surprising to everyone will probably be the cancellation of 'Enemy'. It was considered an important show for the network; a big-name star, huge production budget, and great time slot on Monday night following 'Heroes'. Unfortunately, even this valuable hour of scheduling real estate couldn't save the show, especially as 'Heroes' ratings have dwindled too. Now, I never watched it (I'm more of an Andrew McCarthy fan than a Christian Slater one!) but apparently the premise was confusing and the plot never really took off. Hopefully NBC learns a lesson from this show, but who knows. Things don't look great for the network, especially for fall 2009 when they won't have ER to anchor their Thursday night lineup. It should be interesting...

In the late fringe time period, Fox announced that 'Mad TV' was being cancelled. A lot of news has been made about the triumphant return of 'Saturday Night Live' to big ratings thanks to endless Sarah Palin jokes (and a terrific Tina Fey!), and it looks like 'Mad' just couldn't hack it. I just wonder what the ratings are going to look like now for 'SNL' that the election is over...

More news to come soon but for now, one last gratuitous picture of Joe & Victory (Andrew McCarthy & Lindsey Price)!!

- Ann

InLine- InTouch & InTune

Our first blog post! So exciting... we have decided to start an InLine Media blog to keep our clients, vendors, and anyone else who is interested informed of what is going on in our world and the media world in general. Thus the title- we are in touch AND in tune with what is going on!

We hope to provide you with interesting information; whether it adds to a water cooler conversation, helps you improve your business, or preferably both! Feel free to email any questions you may want addressed in a future post to any one of us- we're here to help and provide any relevant information about the media and advertising world we can!

Stay tuned...

- Ann