On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > If he tries to bring his show to TV, Pollak will suffer the same fate > as the guys who tried to shop around "Mystery Science Theater 3000." > Not a lot of media outlets willing to give up two hours of their > lineup. I wish my fellow Kevin luck, but network executives are > unlikely to go for a guy, a table, an all black set, and a single > guest in a long-format interview. I doubt even PBS would take that > deal... again.
I don't know if you have seen DirectTV's channel 101, but that is not really too much more than a podcast anyway (its just radio on TV), though they do have ad breaks. Right now they run Dan Patrick's 2 hour show about 3 or 4 times a day - it might not take too much to get them to experiment with one of those blocks. Pollak also seemed to be real jazzed about the path that Family Guy took to get back on Fox, and talks a lot about how a show can be profitable if it gets enough eyeballs in a certain niche. I don't think he wants to end up on broadcast TV (in fact, I am pretty sure he does not) but I think he would like to end up on something in between 101 and Showtime - maybe a 2 hour block on Sunday evening on Bravo or A&E or IFC or Sundance or Adult Swim or some incarnation of Nik at Nite? Another idea I have heard him talk about (and maybe this actually already exists? I am just on the edges of the podcasting world) is some kine of online service that people pay a monthly or yearly fee (perhaps with a more expensive pay-per-view option as well) that then gives access to a menu of quality podcasts. I guess such a site would also have ad support as well. -- 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
