I think if I were in charge of a broadcast network that is the main
difference I would immediately implement: All series pitches should be 4, 6
or 12 episode arcs, and must contain a pilot script and outlines for all
remaining episodes.
For the kind of show with an overarching narrative we're
Whatever happened to the big broadcast network miniseries a la The Winds of
War? Seems like that would be the best format for this sort of thing, but
nobody seems to make those nowadays (why not?)
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djconner, to JW:
Whatever happened to the big broadcast network miniseries a la The Winds
of War? Seems like that would be the best format for this sort of thing,
but nobody seems to make those nowadays (why not?)
Higher costs than before, less promise of higher ratings than before in
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
Higher costs than before, less promise of higher ratings than before in
light of the far, FAR bigger universe of choices just in linear television,
and even less promise of visibility in light of the even BIGGER
Their Commish won't let Bell and Astral merge... how proportionately or
otherwise does that compare to Comcast/NBCU?
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From the article, what seemed to sway the regulators here was that it was
one of the dominant English language media companies (two national TV
networks, one of the national newspapers, a major cable net player, major
radio stations, including one that's a player in the Detroit market in
modern
I have an even better indicator of a show's potential to make it to season
two.
For the last several years, any show on the big three (I haven't liked
anything on Fox or CW enough to care) I liked enough to watch on a regular
basis was cancelled no later than mid-second season. The one
In settling the suit over Cablevision's unsuccessful HS programming service
VOOM HD, the satellite service has to shell out $700M to Cablevision, with
the agreement to bring back AMC Networks channels (AMC, WEtv, IFC,
Sundance--and sister company Madison Square Garden's Fuse), meaning that
