Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox Sez Get Lost 'Flatch'

[Adam Bowie]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 8:05 PM Mark Jeffries  wrote:

>
> "Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality
> show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the
> studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and
> lots of staged reaction shots.  (And I suspect that you have tried to avoid
> the UK version of "Masked Singer," Adam, but as far as you know does the UK
> version do the same oversweetening and hyper panel as the US version?)
>

You would be right in thinking that I basically avoid all versions of The
Masked Singer. I think that in the first UK season they had Ken Jeong on
the panel, but then the pandemic made that impossible to continue. In any
case, from what I saw he floundered a bit because there are lots of UK folk
he will be completely unaware of.

>From what I've seen it's played for fairly broad laughs, and not massively
saccharine. That said, I believe that all the sound is "sweetened" because
I read somewhere that only a handful of the studio audience ever sees any
of the reveals because they want to keep everything secret, and a few
hundred people who scored free tickets for a TV show are unlikely to keep
everything entirely off social media between the recording date and the
airdate.


Adam

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[TV orNotTV] NoTV: That Station in NC Will Air 'Dirty' Met Operas About Minorities

[Mark Jeffries]

After national criticism, including a blistering Instagram post from North 
Carolinian folk singer (and author of the Pulitzer-winning opera "Omar") 
Rhiannon GIddens, Raleigh, NC non-commercial classical station WCPE will go 
ahead and broadcast the entire Metropolitan Opera Saturday broadcast 
season, including operas the station found objectionable that just happened 
to be written by BIPOCs and LGBTQs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/arts/music/met-opera-north-carolina-radio.html?unlocked_article_code=V5ZB-d7X9uHElhIwkkrljQKBV5-VzeyAkUafPGfT7LUbSXCJ9wkacTVsZkz_Yk7npi-BBY9BAbTG_BjlqqA9mcmSEeoUUeCsgmIxc_nU39JkTKHoZ9mIeUoAfwj7s9M_aScT1Y7YgO7qfBlZTIg71czLfBfCzoXGIzL4F6eDOFkvx9NvixOoQM3S2aZzuRuqOt2buQCo5NROgM-wHu8roJlA9b7o5aIkmO9_KpXSSDOKO-6-E_gAxxsx7w7FlsP2nCquyk8zl1FbYQsVqbnv8BThNb12OWehSF-_lzYrVxDBkrM7fAOVtoDmbAiQe45tHhIYhZ7mu6mUFG-iCJw4yq63FGlK563w1a5T&smid=url-share

Meanwhile, I would think it would behoove general manager Deborah Proctor 
to hand in  her resignation.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox Sez Get Lost 'Flatch'

[Kevin M.]

Absent any context, I’ll just assume Flatch was a generic version of
name-brand Fletch.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 12:05 PM Mark Jeffries  wrote:

> "Welcome to Flatch," the Jenny Bicks-Paul Feig Americanization of the
> Britcom "This Country," has been canned by Fox after two seasons (they
> waited for the WGA strike to end), although one can wonder, even though
> everyone says that scheduling doesn't matter in the era of streaming, is
> the proper lead-in for any kind of sitcom Gordon Ramsay screaming at people
> for an hour or D-list celebs in masks performing to get approval from a
> heavily-sweetened audience and overcaffeinated fellow D-listers?:
>
> https://www.thewrap.com/welcome-to-flatch-canceled-fox/
>
> "Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality
> show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the
> studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and
> lots of staged reaction shots.  (And I suspect that you have tried to avoid
> the UK version of "Masked Singer," Adam, but as far as you know does the UK
> version do the same oversweetening and hyper panel as the US version?)
>
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[TV orNotTV] Fox Sez Get Lost 'Flatch'

[Mark Jeffries]

"Welcome to Flatch," the Jenny Bicks-Paul Feig Americanization of the 
Britcom "This Country," has been canned by Fox after two seasons (they 
waited for the WGA strike to end), although one can wonder, even though 
everyone says that scheduling doesn't matter in the era of streaming, is 
the proper lead-in for any kind of sitcom Gordon Ramsay screaming at people 
for an hour or D-list celebs in masks performing to get approval from a 
heavily-sweetened audience and overcaffeinated fellow D-listers?:

https://www.thewrap.com/welcome-to-flatch-canceled-fox/

"Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality 
show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the 
studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and 
lots of staged reaction shots.  (And I suspect that you have tried to avoid 
the UK version of "Masked Singer," Adam, but as far as you know does the UK 
version do the same oversweetening and hyper panel as the US version?)

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