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Byron Allen gets the Colbert timeslot

I'm posting the last two paragraphs of my last post on the "60 Minutes," debacle on this thread because I think they belong here as well.

And, now, given what has happened at "60 Minutes,", I think that Byron Allen's show has a better chance of surviving than "60 Minutes," does. This is not only because Mr. Allen is paying for the time himself but because there is an audience of people out there who want to hear comedy as an escape from all of their stresses and not as a way to shed light on them.

Don't believe me? I'm thinking now of a certain comedy show hosted by a talented country singer that the networks rejected because it was too corny but that became very successful in syndication. Though I didn't watch or listen to it, I can tell you that many members of my family, particularly on my dad's side, were great fans of Roy Clark and "hee-Haw,", and I think that Byron Allen's show, if he plays his cards right (and that's a big "if") could do the same during this season.
 
ted chittenden said:
I'm posting the last two paragraphs of my last post on the "60 Minutes," debacle on this thread because I think they belong here as well.

And, now, given what has happened at "60 Minutes,", I think that Byron Allen's show has a better chance of surviving than "60 Minutes," does. This is not only because Mr. Allen is paying for the time himself but because there is an audience of people out there who want to hear comedy as an escape from all of their stresses and not as a way to shed light on them.

Don't believe me? I'm thinking now of a certain comedy show hosted by a talented country singer that the networks rejected because it was too corny but that became very successful in syndication. Though I didn't watch or listen to it, I can tell you that many members of my family, particularly on my dad's side, were great fans of Roy Clark and "hee-Haw,", and I think that Byron Allen's show, if he plays his cards right (and that's a big "if") could do the same during this season.
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Hee Haw was eons ago. There are so many differences in the world then and now that there’s no way this thing he’s putting on is going to be ever mentioned in the same universe.
 
ted chittenden said:
And, now, given what has happened at "60 Minutes,", I think that Byron Allen's show has a better chance of surviving than "60 Minutes," does. This is not only because Mr. Allen is paying for the time himself but because there is an audience of people out there who want to hear comedy as an escape from all of their stresses and not as a way to shed light on them.
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That's kind of what I thought of the few minutes that I watched Comics Unleased the other night. Just a chance to hear something at least mildly amusing without being subjected to an ongoing war against Donald Trump, which is what Colbert's show morphed into over time.
 
IM42A said:
That's kind of what I thought of the few minutes that I watched Comics Unleased the other night. Just a chance to hear something at least mildly amusing without being subjected to an ongoing war against Donald Trump, which is what Colbert's show morphed into over time.
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Not many, according the ratings, which are now lower than the May 22 premiere.

www.yahoo.com

Kimmel, Fallon & Byron Allen Ratings Revealed: How Is CBS Doing Without Colbert?

The late night numbers are in.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
 
Steel Nerves said:
Not many, according the ratings, which are now lower than the May 22 premiere.

www.yahoo.com

Kimmel, Fallon & Byron Allen Ratings Revealed: How Is CBS Doing Without Colbert?

The late night numbers are in.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
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Yeah, I just saw that article, which gives the ratings for the following Monday, when Allen's pablum had to compete against new episodes of Kimmel and Fallon.

From the article, Kimmel had 2.185 million viewers (up 53% from last year), Fallon had 1.301 million viewers (up 10% from last year), and Comics Unleashed had a whopping...628,000 viewers (down 65%).

Maybe viewers will find Comics Unleashed over time and those ratings will rebound a little, but I doubt it. After all, Comics Unleashed has a long prior history as low-rated syndication fodder that stations used as filler. It wasn't the sort of programming that anyone actually looked for, but more something that people ended up watching if they were already on the channel and it didn't annoy them enough to make them switch to a different channel.
 
And Byron Allen's late night slop continues to decline.

Per Latenighter:
Taken together, the new one-hour Comics Unleashed block averaged 653,000 total viewers and 69,000 adults 18–49, down from 737,000 and 78,000 the week prior. The block remains well below the recent benchmark set by Colbert, whose final full quarter on CBS averaged 2.70 million total viewers and 233,000 adults 18–49.
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Will_H_69_9 said:
maybe it be better if CBS just drops the block all together and let the affiliates and O&O fill the time with extended newscast and syndicated programming like repeats of old shows or go straight to infomercials.
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Why? CBS is making millions with zero investment or effort by selling the time to Byron Allen who will fill it with sanitized programming meant to curry favor with Trump and advance the Ellisons' efforts to swallow up Warner and CNN next.
 
TexasTom said:
Yeah, I just saw that article, which gives the ratings for the following Monday, when Allen's pablum had to compete against new episodes of Kimmel and Fallon.

From the article, Kimmel had 2.185 million viewers (up 53% from last year), Fallon had 1.301 million viewers (up 10% from last year), and Comics Unleashed had a whopping...628,000 viewers (down 65%).

Maybe viewers will find Comics Unleashed over time and those ratings will rebound a little, but I doubt it. After all, Comics Unleashed has a long prior history as low-rated syndication fodder that stations used as filler. It wasn't the sort of programming that anyone actually looked for, but more something that people ended up watching if they were already on the channel and it didn't annoy them enough to make them switch to a different channel.
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The main point is that the previous CBS show lost lots of money for CBS. The current brokered show makes them lots of money.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Why? CBS is making millions with zero investment or effort by selling the time to Byron Allen who will fill it with sanitized programming meant to curry favor with Trump and advance the Ellisons' efforts to swallow up Warner and CNN next.
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Should be, "CBS is making millions with zero investment or effort by selling the time to Byron Allen who will fill it with brokered cash yielding programming that will definitely curry favor with the new owners who were not going to put up with a consistently money losing show any longer."
 


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