Originally posted by TravisYanan: Smackdown may rate well for the CW, but its per-30-second-ad rate was a paltry $27,000 this season ( see this AdAge chart). With CW programming trending towards females, SmackDown was an almost useless, time-filling property that neither delivered great advertising revenues nor viewers who were going to watch anything else on CW.
Exactly. Smackdown was a way to fill 2 hours of programming that would otherwise be much lower rated, but it wasn't a money maker for the network.
My earlier comment about Smackdown fans not being wise to 'boycott' the rest of their season before Smackdown finds a new home stands. If you are a network looking to pick up Smackdown what looks better: 1) 4.5million fans that tune in no matter what else is on TV or what is going to appear on Smackdown that evening. 2) 3.5 million fans that may tune in unless they hear news about their show that they don't like and they get 'uppity' like that first million and start boycotting as well.
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The real question is what will CW do on Fridays now that it's free to be programmed?
I suggest a new TGIF-esque comedy night (moving, once again, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, and Girlfriends - if it comes back for a ninth season - to Fridays and finding something to put at 8:30pm).
Might work, but that new comedy better have a 'name' star instead of just being recycled actors from their other shows. Right now, the closest thing the CW comedies have to a recognisable face was Joan's Fiance on Girlfriends, but right now he is off chasing John&Sarah Connor.
Thank you for the update, and I am hoping this can finally all get resolved.
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Originally posted by bored striker: From DHD
SATURDAY 2:00 PM: Here's first word to me from inside the WGA East "informational" meeting in NYC's Crowne Plaza Hotel in Times Square. (The meeting is still going on...): "The room at first was not overly contentious as everyone listened to [WGA East Michael] Winship and others. Basically, the leadership was selling the deal. The leadership made it clear that the deal is a limited time offer. That if we don't go back to work on this immediately we lose the deal and we're back to the beginning again. There was some pushback. There was a lot of conversation how we shouldn't go back immediately and we should at least have 48 hours to think about this. And the argument was that the AMPTP has said that this deal is contingent on going back to work immediately. That it's kind of a 'take or leave it offer' and if we don't take this then we could be out forever. But the leadership may consider a delay for 48 hours, that it's a possibility this is what they'll do. The mood in the room was that, 'It's not a perfect deal, but it's good enough'. There was a sense of resignation."
Might work, but that new comedy better have a 'name' star instead of just being recycled actors from their other shows. Right now, the closest thing the CW comedies have to a recognisable face was Joan's Fiance on Girlfriends, but right now he is off chasing John&Sarah Connor.
Hahah, yes, I agree with you. But I can't imagine CW, given its ratings/financial woes/situation, putting a comparatively expensive drama on Friday. So I suppose the sitcom would have to be multi-cam, as well. Or (especially given the perhaps-end of the strike, I hesitate to suggest this...) maybe CW gets in the business of non-competition reality shows? A la Kitchen Nightmares, Wife Swap, etc. Reality shows that are stand-alone and therefore don't have the issues that shows like ANTM and B&tG do? Maybe a game show? Again, I can't believe I'm even positing any of this...
Marc, I know you'll be watching Brothers & Sisters tomorrow night, but with your DVR, you should record the encore of Nip/Tuck on FX, which featured Knots Landing alums, Donna Mills and Joan Van Ark. Wild episode!
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I saw it last night Douglas. What a strange blast from the past. I kept expecting Michelle Lee to pop up!
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Originally posted by Douglas: Marc, I know you'll be watching Brothers & Sisters tomorrow night, but with your DVR, you should record the encore of Nip/Tuck on FX, which featured Knots Landing alums, Donna Mills and Joan Van Ark. Wild episode!
It's always funny seeing FNL do so poorly. I know you fans probaly hate hearing that, but when the possible series finale does that bad, it's pathetic.
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: It's always funny seeing FNL do so poorly. I know you fans probaly hate hearing that, but when the possible series finale does that bad, it's pathetic.
After last night, you can take possible out of that sentence.
SATURDAY 4:00 PM: The WGA East's "informational" meeting for membership lasted about 3 hours. Here's more about the NYC confab from a WGA attendee: "The East meeting was insanely civil. Not one chair thrown. I was at the meeting in the same ballroom the second week of the strike, when the same people were sitting up there and were characteristically defensive about why we had gone out and if they knew what they were doing. Today, those same people were not only confident, they were not in the least defensive about the deal -- they were realistic, 180 degrees from the chaos and disarray I smelled three months ago. And they ain't actors. I think if they felt they needed to ram something down our throats, you would have picked up on that immediately. The two big moments for me came very early, when each member of the negotiating committee spoke briefly. Terry George said, 'We have defeated a tradition of rollbacks that began with the air traffic controllers.' That crystallized what we were up against and how far we had come and changing the dialogue. A couple minutes later, Melissa Salmons said, 'For years, I have lived in fear of that DVD formula, that it would be with me for my life. Now we have a deal that have movement in it. I never cared about the numbers. I just wanted a new system implemented.' (Later on, she told a daytime writer that the staff of Days of Our Lives, who had all been fired last week, were getting their jobs back. And that a striking writer, if fired, had to be replaced by a striking writer. Not a scab, and not a fi-core member. Big ovation.) I'll stop short of calling it a love fest, but not all that short. Legit questions were raised and respectfully answered. Again, no defensiveness. There was an informal applause poll, and the room was overwhelmingly in favor of ending the strike before a membership ratification vote."
Cloris Leachman was dancing for joy at the 30+ participants who submitted guesses for the Thursday, October 9, 2008 edition of the PIFC Daily Game. Forum, expect Top 25 market data (including requests for Albuquerque and Fort Myers) for September 26-October 8 posted in its respective threads this weekend!
