On October 13, 2025, MeTV added Everybody Loves Raymond to the schedule. The announcement proved unpopular with some viewers on Facebook. I checked Reddit, Instagram, and few other places around the web and the announcement proved somewhat unpopular there too. Some said they simply did not like the show. Others complained that the show had already aired everywhere else, with many pointing out it is still on TV Land. Yet others said that they did not think it fit MeTV, with some even saying that they liked the show but it should not be on the network.
In some ways, this situation is similar to when Monk started airing on Sunday nights on MeTV in .July 2021. I remember then people complaining that Monk was simply too new. Ultimately, Monk went off MeTV in May 2022. I don't know if the same thing will happen with Everybody Loves Raymond, but it is quite possible that it could. It seems to me a good number of MeTV viewers are insistent that the network only show TV series from the Fifties to the Eighties.
I can understand the complaints of some of the viewers. While I like Everybody Loves Raymond, I can sympathize those who don't. I can imagine how I might feel if MeTV put Diff'rent Strokes on at 8:00 PM five days a week. As to those who complained it has aired everywhere else, they may have a point. Currently, Everybody Loves Raymond is airing on IFC and TV Land. In the past, it has aired on TBS and other cable channels, and from 2001 to 2016 in syndication. Now it is true that many other MeTV shows, such as The Andy Griffith Show and M*AA*S*H, have pretty much aired "everywhere," but in their cases that was many years ago. Everybody Loves Raymond has aired "everywhere" fairly recently.
As to whether or not Everybody Loves Raymond fits MeTV, that is more difficult to answer. I think it all pivots on how one sees MeTV. Is MeTV a network that shows TV series from the Fifties to the Eighties or is it a network that shows classic TV series. If it is the former, then Everybody Loves Raymond certainly does not fit MeTV, as it is from the Nineties. If is the latter, well, Everybody Loves Raymond turned 30, so it is certainly old enough to be a classic. As to whether it is good enough to be a classic is entirely subject. I would say, "Yes," but from looking at MeTV's social media accounts, there are certainly those who would disagree.
I will say that while I have no major complaints with Everybody Loves Raymond, I would rather MeTV have picked up a show that hasn't aired anywhere for a while. Right now Get Smart can only be seen the streaming service Frndly TV and for rent on such outlets as Prime Video and Fandango at Home. WKRP in Cincinnati seems to be exclusive to Apple TV. The Phil Silvers Show isn't available anywhere. I would really rather see any of these shows on MeTV, not to mention others, than Everybody Loves Raymond.
Ultimately, it remains to be seen if Everybody Loves Raymond will become a mainstay on MeTV, much the way The Andy Griffith Show or M*A*S*H have if like Monk before it will be leaving the network after nine months.
5 comments:
The cable channel Catchy Comedy airs both The Phil Silvers Show and Get Smart--They just are shown at inconvenient times. The former is scheduled six nights a week at 1:30 AM (CST), and GS runs in a hour block early Sunday mornings.
Thanks, James! We don't have Catchy Conedy here. MeTV could show both shows in prinetime or Sunday night along with Dick Van Dyke and The Honeymooners.
I agree. Everybody Loves Raymond doesn’t belong on MeTV. It’s not just when it starts, but when it ends. No show that aired in the 2000s should be on (at least not yet). I recall in the summer of 1985 when Nick at Nite started Camp Nickelodeon airing Dennis the Menace, Donna Reed, a movie, and Route 66 beginning at 8 PM EST, then repeating the block at 1 AM. Other cable channels, such as USA, A&E, and CBN (now Freeform), aired shows such as The Fugitive, Adventures in Paradise, Peter Gunn, Dobie Gillis, and Burns & Allen. Nickelodeon spawned TV Land, which aired classic TV 24/7 instead on only evening blocks. My biggest complaint about MeTV id airing shows multiple times a day instead of more shows. I don’t need 22 episodes of M*A*S*H per week. MeTV+ airs on Frndly, but recently took of my favorite shows 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye replacing them with Honey West and Burke’s Law. They also removed all the Westerns moving them to a new WEST network. Just as cable pulled the classic shows from the local TV channels (especially the UHF independent stations that sprouted up in the mid 60s and 70s), I see the streaming services pulling shows from the cable channels. But I understand these shows are part of packages (NBC Universal, Paramount) and unless they are in the public domain, not every station can air what they want. I wonder if the recent acquisition of Warner Bros by NETFLIX will change the classic TV landscape.
It's fairly obvious that Catchy Comedy is a rival to Laff, but Catchy Comedy is much better since it airs both classic (50's-70's) and modern day classic (80's-2000's) comedies. 'Everybody Loves Raymond' would be better suited to air weeknights on Catchy Comedy than MeTV since it's more of a modern day classic that would compliment 'Hot in Cleveland'.
I would like to see Cheers or Happy Days something that in place of Everybody lives Raymond
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