On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > The big factor in celebrity TV interviews nobody has brought up yet is > the increase of influence of managers, publicists, and studio > marketing departments on the star side and pressure from advertisers > and network suits on the host side. Each talk show is under pressure > to fill guests slots and the studios and publicists are pushing their > clients. I'm sure there are instances where egos have to be stroked > and that takes priority over guest quality in the name of keeping a > relationship with a publicist/studio going. (SNIP)
> I don't listen to Kevin Pollak's show, but I do listen to Marc Maron's > podcast, and he and his standup guests talk about how liberating doing > a podcast is compared to a radio or TV show. If hosts could find a way > to monetize these podcasts, it would lead to the ideal situation of > the host inviting only guests s/he knows will be good and the time to > do longer form interviews. (SNIP) That partly gets back to my original question - is there any evidence that having these stars on actually increased ticket sales for their films? But it also adds another element, which is not the impact of celeb appearances on talk shows on the talk show's ratings, or on the ticket sales of the film, but on the profile of the stars themselves. As I think about I guess this maybe be one of the driving factors (publicists getting celebrities on talk shows to make them more famous, presumably so they can then charge more for movies and other things) - and this is the part of the whole thing that is most irritating - seeing Dave (or whoever) forced to talk to someone not because they are interesting or have something to say, but just to helm make them more famous. Our Kevin probably understands this much better than I, but Pollak has been talking about his plans to monetize his podcast - I think the idea is getting a single sponsor to underwrite either a single episode or an entire season. Sometimes it seems like he has a vision of the podcast running on some kind of cable (maybe something like Showtime, or maybe something like what Directv does with the Dan Patrick radio show?), but sometimes it seems like a model based just on downloaded and streamed podcasts - maybe that people pay for, or if he can show enough hits, free access but integrated ads for the single sponsor. -- 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
