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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 321479" data-attributes="member: 370"><p>Going by the ratings, Lou Grant was always pretty much filler programming - it didn't rate well enough to be a priority, but also not bad enough that they couldn't use it to fill an unattractive time slot. It's possible that the politics pushed it to the wrong side of that bubble, but I'd also assume CBS's rise with Dallas in the early 80s might've meant they felt like they didn't need Lou as a filler.</p></blockquote><p></p>