On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:11 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Channel 5's late-night is Brit-centric reality shows. I don't see them > being imported. The Brit chat shows (Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, whoever > else) are all once-a-week. > > I can't think of a single thing on Channel 5 that would work on a US network. They did recently do the remake of All Creatures Great and Small which is PBS Masterpiece I believe, but their output is squarely UK-focused these days. They've just started doing a handful of original dramas, but that's about it. And would you really want to have Piers Morgan airing again in the small hours with Good Morning Britain? The big shows in the UK air 9.00-10.00pm - usually dramas. But they've nearly all already got US homes in PBS/Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/FX/HBO/Acorn/BritBox. And gameshows/unscripted tend to way better being reformatted rather than re-broadcast. Network Ten's late-night is Colbert and a repeat of "The Project," their > 6:30 p.m. panel current affairs show. The "tonight" shows (as they're > called over there) that were the linchpins of the schedule have been gone > ever since Rove McManus ended his show. But perhaps CBS could air "The > Project" and force the hosts to offer explanations of Aussie-centric issues > for the American viewers. (For the record, Australian TV's biggest ratings > are now in the dinner hour, where the commercial nets basically offer their > flagship newscasts and game shows "The Chase" and "Millionaire Hot Seat", > with Seven running the long-running soap "Home and Away" in that block, > Nine running the original tabloid mag "A Current Affair" and Ten "The > Project.") > > Mark Jeffries > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGCO7TZREdjdatDRchY%2BsjykunKYF7Os-ic22X2jxx2tKg%40mail.gmail.com.
