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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 446144" data-attributes="member: 673">Looking at his TV roles, Anthony Clark was actually in a trio of timeslots hits in the 90’s/00’s. As above, he was the lead in Yes Dear. In the mid-90’s he was part of the main cast of Boston Common (mentioned further up this thread).He was also in ABC sitcom Soul Man, which ran for two seasons. Ratings wise, it did well (15-17m viewers) during its three episode first season and early second season, when it was sandwiched in between Home Improvement reruns and new episodes of HI on Tuesdays at 8.30pm. When ABC tried anything else , like having it as the 8pm opening show of the Tuesday night comedy block, or swapping out its Home Improvement lead in for Drew Carey reruns or new episodes of Grace Under Fire, ratings would drop by up to 5m. After various timeslot moves and pairings on Tuesdays, ABC resigned themselves to the fact that it was HI reruns propping the show up and reinstated that scheduling but ratings had already been eroded and it was too late.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 446144, member: 673"] Looking at his TV roles, Anthony Clark was actually in a trio of timeslots hits in the 90’s/00’s. As above, he was the lead in [I]Yes Dear[/I]. In the mid-90’s he was part of the main cast of [I]Boston[/I] [I]Common[/I] (mentioned further up this thread). He was also in ABC sitcom [I]Soul Man[/I], which ran for two seasons. Ratings wise, it did well (15-17m viewers) during its three episode first season and early second season, when it was sandwiched in between [I]Home Improvement[/I] reruns and new episodes of [I]HI[/I] on Tuesdays at 8.30pm. When ABC tried anything else , like having it as the 8pm opening show of the Tuesday night comedy block, or swapping out its [I]Home Improvement[/I] lead in for [I]Drew Carey[/I] reruns or new episodes of [I]Grace Under Fire[/I], ratings would drop by up to 5m. After various timeslot moves and pairings on Tuesdays, ABC resigned themselves to the fact that it was [I]HI[/I] reruns propping the show up and reinstated that scheduling but ratings had already been eroded and it was too late. [/QUOTE]

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