TV executives
if you’re a tv executive and you’re scratching your head trying to figure out why nobody is watching tv anymore. here’s some ideas:
- 30 minutes of tv = 20 minutes of actual content
- you censor anything that looks like a movie
- the tard factor in your focus groups is very high
- you rely on ratings based on equipment a good percentage of your audience has no access to
- you cancel tv shows based on the last two points above
- the internet has better content
yeah, i’m a little bitter because one of my favourite shows got cancelled due to tv-executivism. Life on Mars. Great show probably didn’t appeal an audience who heard about the ’70’s on the internet and didn’t really know what it was.
other shows that were ahead of their time: “Nowhere Man” and “Profit”
the “big three” should take a look at Fox. These guys came out of nowhere didn’t follow traditional tv season schedules and made a name for themselves (the simpsons, x-files, south park). how many of YOUR shows have dialog that made it’s way into the popular lexicon?
…yeah, that’s what i thought.
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May 25th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Fox is not much better at canceling shows that they haven’t given a chance to grab an audience. 24 and Firefly came out at the same time. 24 was hurting for viewers, they made a huge advertising blitz to keep it going, and it was in a prime tv slot. Firefly was stuffed in a Friday slot that has poor viewership ratings traditionally, and didn’t bother advertising it to boot. Firefly didn’t take long to get yanked.
Then again, it was an original idea, and on tv in the States, original doesn’t stand a chance. Same with John Doe, Drive, both Fox shows. The Collector was another one that never got a chance in the US, granted it would never fly in the bible belt, and was a Canadian show.
“TV” needs to find a way to generate advertising revenue right from the episodes and start delivering them on the internet. Otherwise we’re going to continue to get crap.
May 26th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
fox cancelled “the lone gunman” but the fox tv execs aren’t near as braindead as the other three. I could be wrong