On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> The thing that stands out to me about this is that there is no effort > to show a different genre any more, at least on the networks. A number > of years ago Mark Burnett made the Rockstar series on CBS, which was a > music competition to find a vocalist to front a rock band. I would > think that a producer who wants to differentiate his/her show would > make it a competition for a new soul or jazz or country singer. All of > these shows push the same type of pop music and there has to be a > saturation point. Oversaturation is the name of the game. As long as a producer's show is not the one where humanity abruptly says "no more," producers will keep churning out the same crap. In other words, while it is nice to be the original, it is considered acceptable to be a copy, or a clone of copy, or a copy of a clone, as long as your copy/clone isn't the one that ruins it for everyone else. It isn't that we've run out of ideas, it is that we have to sift through mounds of redundant crap to find them. I find I am running out of appointment TV shows again, and that is annoying because last weekend someone gave me a TV set so I can theoretically watch TV in my apartment for the first time in a year. I watch a few on Hulu, or on various network websites, but I tend to watch older stuff more than ever. I've been rewatching Columbo this week (just realized one of the character actresses who made numerous appearances in the later installments was Falk's real-life wife), and I dread the day some gasbag decided to resurrect that franchise. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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
