On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Melissa Neal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > My guess is that they have plenty of episodes for syndication and don't > need to spend money making new ones. > > In Bill Carter's book Desperate networks, while discussing bringing > Friends back for another season, he noted that 100 episodes gets a > series into daily strip syndication and 200 episodes fills a year's > order. So the revenue to be gained drops after the 200th episode and > as costs go up every year for a hit show it's unusual to see a show go > past 200 episodes. From what I remember reading Two and a Half Men has > done 177 episodes so if CBS continues the series it's only for 1 more > year. If they don't make any more they'll take a financial hit but not > a massive hit. If CBS thinks viewers will tune in for a season without > Charlie they'll recast the role and use the money they save from his > contract to pay off Lorre. > I hope they recast and continue for at least a year - it will set up an interesting situation in which two of the three most popular sitcoms (I think) would be going into next season with new leads. It would be interesting to see how successfully and creatively each is able to deal with that. I would guess conventional wisdom would be that the Sheen show is more dependent on him that The Office is on Carell, but I am not so sure. I don't know that Sheen brings anything to any project that 10 waiters working in West LA don't bring as well, while, even though The Office has become a real ensemble effort, it revolves around Michael Scott, and it is not clear how the chemistry will work without him. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
