Unexpected X-over (Heroes, EHC, comics)

On last week's "Everybody Hates Chris", a kid is shown outside a Bodega
in 1982 Brooklyn, reading a copy of "Cosmic Man." On tonight's
"Heroes", Micah shows his Dad a stack of comics, and there's "Cosmic
Man" again. Same logo.

Mark Nobles...

Hasn't a "Cosmic Man" comic appeared on The Simpsons, too?

Kevrob...

I know that RADIOACTIVE MAN is Bart Simpson's favorite comic book.....

....but I don't think Springfield has a "Cosmic Man."

Same universe?

Rob Jensen...

Same studio?

Kevrob...

Nope.

EHC is from Chris Rock Entertainment, 3 Art Entertainment, CBS
Paramount Network Television, and Paramount Network Television

HEROES is NBC/Universal.

Bill Steele...

I wouldn't surprised if there was a print shop in Hollywood that turns
out fake magazines, posters, tickets, whatever for all the studios.

Lilith...

Jay Leno seems to be able to have someone fake up magazine and book
covers fairly often.

Mark Nobles...

Even Jon Stewart manages this now and then.

-- Rob

Next thing they'll be drinking bottles of Heisler beer!

David...

There's also a magazine that keeps reappearing on tv shows. Its front
cover is never shown but the back cover is tinted green and has a
picture of something that looks like a windmill. It goes back to the
80's with "Dynasty" and "Married with Children" and has shown up on
several shows since then.

Barry Margolin...

Hmm, the only magazine I recall showing up much on MwC was "Big'Uns".
Of course, in that genre, the magazine that gets used by lots of
different programs is "Playpen".

Kevrob...

Obviously, though in HEROES, one of the mags, "9TH WONDERS" is unique
to that show, and produced by one of the characters.

If the shows don't have a production company in common they must have
something else - a prop house, an art director (or team of such.) The
fake beer brand seems to show up most often. It makes sense, as
product placement for beer wouldn't make sense. First, the nets want
to sell actual ads to brewers. Second, there may be FCC rules against
in-show promotion of alcohol. It sure looks better than the phonied-up
cans of beer that were obviously altered Anheuser-Busch product I've
seen, often labeled "Beer."

Seerialmom...

Perhaps they share the same prop department/sound stages. I missed
last weeks EHC (one of those "dang it" moments when I realized it, too).

Kevrob...

Our local CW station is showing a two-hour block of repeats each Sunday
night before they run 7TH HEAVEN - THE GAME, CHRIS and SUPERNATURAL. I
don''t know if they are using the WB's old "Easy View" slogan, but it's
the same idea.

William George Ferguson...

Yes, the CW is doing the old WB 'Easyview' and still calling it that.

The CW basically adopted the WB weekly programming schedule across the
board.

Primetime 13 hours (2hr M-F, 3 hrs Sun)
CW daytime 10 hours (2hr M-F, typically 3pm-5pm)
Easyview 2 hours (Sun 5pm-7pm)
CW presents the WB Kids (5 hours Saturday, formerly "WB Kids")

For 30 hours a week

For comparison, UPN only programmed 14 hours a week (the 10 primetime hours
M-F, plus two optional repeat hours on the weekend and an uptional 2 hour
music program on the weekend). Fox Network runs 15 hours of primetime 1
hours of latenight (MadTV) and sports, typically coming up with less than
the CW's 30 hours of programming per week. Fox used to have a limited
amount of daytime programming, Fox at Breakfast mainly, and a Saturday kids
block, Fox Kids, but both have gone by the wayside.