Horrible numbers again for "Cane"...1.8/5 demo...whoever is watching this must have been born before they invented electricity. The averge age of the "Cane" viewer...deceased. Development dropped the ball at the networks...they haven't delivered a break out hit in over two years...combine that with the WGA strike and we can expect less and less scripted dramas and sitcoms and more low cost reality and game shows. Only thing is how many box set dvd's are you going to sell of "Duel" in the future? And can you sell off American-made game shows and reality shows to foriegn markets? Networks will have to re-assess and dramatically change their approach to development or you will see the trend of networks having to return cash to disappointed advertisers as NBC just had to do. Believe me...there are great pilot scripts out there...but when you see garbage like Carpoolers, Cavemen, Notes from the Underbelly, etc. being greenlit you have to ask who the heck put their careers and reputations on the line for that slop. I'd rather surf youtube.com then watch that stuff...and I am not alone. And by the downward trends in over all viewership and the average age of the network tv viewer going "up"...the networks need a break out hit more then ever before.

Game shows may not have the DVD market available, but their is plenty of profit to be made in the gaming market. Online, video, card games, board games, cell phones, PDA's, etc....

Plus, don't forget that GSN and VS do look for content for their networks. Milionaire and Greed are still on GSN, not to mention the old classic games shows from the 50's 60's and 70's.

As far as delivering a hit, Heroes was a breakout Last year. They just dropped the ball this year.

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Originally posted by StewartSummers:
The averge age of the "Cane" viewer...deceased.

Nice to know that Life Ends at Age 48.

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Originally posted by xwiseguyx:

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Originally posted by StewartSummers:
The averge age of the "Cane" viewer...deceased.

Nice to know that Life Ends at Age 48.

Depends on if you are married, or not.

And it should be pointed out that where game and reality shows make their overseas money is in selling the format. Well over 100 countries produced licensed versions of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and it seems that almost every major country has a licensed version of "Idol," "Big Brother" or "Dancing."

Now the common denominator is that the networks don't own the formats to any of the shows I mentioned above, partially because those formats originated overseas. However, CBS seems to be doing well licensing "Top Model" and NBC licenses "Project Runway" to overseas markets.

In addition, the networks do control domestic licensing of the shows and I'm sure ABC has made a respectable amount of money off of "Dancing With the Stars" exercise and instruction videos, clothing, books, live show, etc.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
Game shows may not have the DVD market available, but their is plenty of profit to be made in the gaming market. Online, video, card games, board games, cell phones, PDA's, etc....

Plus, don't forget that GSN and VS do look for content for their networks. Milionaire and Greed are still on GSN, not to mention the old classic games shows from the 50's 60's and 70's.

It's not like scripted shows don't have non-rerun/non-DVD marketability. CSI (for example) has books, board games, puzzles, video games, cell phone ring tones and wallpapers, not to mention clothes, play forensic kits, voice-recorder pens, and the obligatory shot glasses (seems like there's a shot glass for everything...).

I will agree, however, that there is probably a bigger market for home versions of some of the game shows than there is for the CSI computer game.