Also in the never going to happen category, a 45 minute soap, and cutting The Talk to a half hour.
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New Daytime Soap Opera at CBS In Development
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They were all on radio in the early days.
So was the CBS nightly news
Not sure if this has already been brought up elsewhere, but The Hollywood Reporter recently did a story on Paramount cutting costs across films and shows. Not sure if this has anything to do with CBS' thinking when it came to The Gates, or anything else, but here you go:
www.hollywoodreporter.com
For years, power struggles between the Shari Redstone contingent and the Leslie Moonves contingent dominated the corporation and its sense of itself. After one side “won”, it seemed like there wasn’t much of a plan to figure out what came next. Paramount has been looking to merge with another studio and sell off their assets for at least 3 years now. WB was considered a possible merger candidate recently, but they backed down likely because of their own issues with being in debt. Universal is considered another candidate.
If they’re looking to cut a lot of costs, I can’t imagine how much worse the licensing fees for Y&R will be now with the 4 year renewal. The show already operates like it has nothing left. If B&B gets renewed after their current 1 year extension, it will be the same.
The barometer of success could very well look quite differently for The Gates. First off, they’ve been very direct in saying the core demographic they’re going after is black women, which incidentally is the same core demo Y&R significantly over-indexes viewership with. This is something that’s never often said publicly by networks. This show needs to succeed with this demographic first and foremost it would appear. Of course CBS would like stronger overall viewership, but if it doesn’t resonate with this targeted demo, it won’t last.
Paramount, Citing Experiment During Strikes, to Cut Costs Per Title For Films, Series
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish and CFO Naveen Chopra explained their plan to reduce content costs on the company's earnings call.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
For years, power struggles between the Shari Redstone contingent and the Leslie Moonves contingent dominated the corporation and its sense of itself. After one side “won”, it seemed like there wasn’t much of a plan to figure out what came next. Paramount has been looking to merge with another studio and sell off their assets for at least 3 years now. WB was considered a possible merger candidate recently, but they backed down likely because of their own issues with being in debt. Universal is considered another candidate.
If they’re looking to cut a lot of costs, I can’t imagine how much worse the licensing fees for Y&R will be now with the 4 year renewal. The show already operates like it has nothing left. If B&B gets renewed after their current 1 year extension, it will be the same.
The barometer of success could very well look quite differently for The Gates. First off, they’ve been very direct in saying the core demographic they’re going after is black women, which incidentally is the same core demo Y&R significantly over-indexes viewership with. This is something that’s never often said publicly by networks. This show needs to succeed with this demographic first and foremost it would appear. Of course CBS would like stronger overall viewership, but if it doesn’t resonate with this targeted demo, it won’t last.
It's an entirely different show by design. Being unlike the original in many aspects has worked just fine once the initial panel moved on in other directions (or was asked to move on in one toxic case).
What do you mean by that? Y&R runs storylines which can take years to resolve. Are you talking about production value?
It’s probably the best looking soap on tv from a production standpoint.
Everyone I hear talk about it run to change the channel the second it comes on.
I'm sure that is a huge cross section of their viewers who happen to discuss their opinions of The Talk totally organically and naturally with you.
More to the point, they never "resolve" because it's the same tired plots over...and over....and over....nothing actually happens.
Yeah. I don't know where the summaries are any more, but when I could find them, Victor and Nikki were either breaking up or getting remarried, and Jabot was taking over Newman or Newman was taking over Jabot.
Why not cut Deal in half and have it follow Price and get rid of the flex schedule...
11 - Price
12 - Deal
12:30 - Local News
1 - Y&R
1:30 - The Gates
2 - B&B
3 - The Talk
11 - Price
12 - Deal
12:30 - Local News
1 - Y&R
1:30 - The Gates
2 - B&B
3 - The Talk
Because it’s doing fine; no way they’re getting noon back even in exchange for 12:30; and they’re not cutting Y&R to 30 minutes.
The flex schedule is actually a great option for the stations. It is not going away.
How about I give you the small episode in exchange for the soap behind door number two?
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