Lisa de Moraes, Wash. Post TV columnist
Experian Simmons looked to see which programs indexed highest and lowest among conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, for a survey of a full year ending last summer. The analysis does not include news, sports or music programming.
Liberal Democrats feel an overwhelming urge to laugh, Experian-Simmons concluded in the study, the results of which were given first to the Time Warner publication Entertainment Weekly.
But not bodily-function, Chuck Lorre-esque laughs. No, no — liberals are big fans of the more sophisticated comedy of ABC and, particularly, the too-hip-to-live comedies of NBC.
The list of top indexing shows popular among more left-leaning Democrats includes NBC’s “30 Rock,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “The Office.”
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Anyway, conservative Republicans go crazy for cable: “Swamp Loggers” and such other Discovery shows as “Mythbusters,” Man vs. Wild” and “Auction Kings”; History’s “Swamp People,” “Top Shot,” “Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy” and “American Pickers”; and BBC America’s “Top Gear.” They also gravitate toward ABC’s “The Bachelor” and the “Dancing With the Stars” results show; NBC’s “The Biggest Loser”; and CBS’s “Hawaii Five-O” and “NCIS.”
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