Will & Grace has been a strong performer for four years as part of NBC's "must-see" Thursday night lineup, and network executives have been counting on it to continue to be an anchor show for that night.
Following the loss to Viacom of the World Wrestling Federation franchise, his flagship USAcable channel is without a highly rated anchor show, jeopardizing its status as the nation's top cable channel.
"There are only so many anchor shows," said Gary Newman, president of the Fox studio, a unit of the News Corporation.
Both he and Gail Berman, the president of Fox Entertainment, acknowledged that replacing the two anchor shows makes improving the network's overall performance particularly difficult.
In the fall, to complement the 8 p.m. "Countdown," Current lined up Cenk Uygur, a former MSNBC anchor, and Jennifer M. Granholm, a former Michigan governor, to anchor shows before and after it.
And then there is the theory that if NBC lets "Frasier" go, the network, in dire need of anchor shows, will be forced to become a bidder for "Dharma" with CBS.
A comparison to a neutral anchor shows that the social context increases biased behavior.
Our recent study on the new type hollow gravity anchor shows that the hollow anchor can save the anchoring time and decrease the anchoring deviation, compared with the traditional solid anchor.
Since 1991 (when their original show opened in New York), Blue Man Group has evolved into a powerhouse worldwide entertainment franchise (like Cirque du Soleil) with long-running anchor shows in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Orlando, Tokyo, and Berlin.
We have also confirmed that the tetherin mutant without the GPI anchor showed complete loss of the antiviral activity (data not shown).
Indeed, transgenic mice expressing PrP without the GPI anchor showed increased propensity to develop amyloid fibrils in their brains.
