On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For the life of me, I don't understand why NBC insisted on milking the > reboot the way they did. American Gladiators works perfectly as a summer > replacement series, and I actually thought the reboot worked well, save for > the hosts (Hogan and Ali were terrible). > I'll speculate: the producers were shopping a reboot to syndicators and NBC, who was looking for unscripted shows, offered them a prime time network slot with a prime time network budget. Once the producers accepted the money they had to change the show from goofy weekend fun to serious prime time competition and they could not make the transition. Hogan and Ali were a symptom of the failure: NBC probably insisted on them because they were known names while there were lower level sports commentators who had the chops to bring more humor and a sense of fun to the proceedings. The original Gladiator would barely mention the occupation of a contestant and when they did it was to establish that their contestants had real jobs. In the reboot the contestant's background was blown out of proportion, especially if the contestant was a veteran or a firefighter. It became irritating when Hogan would go on and on about the contestant's heroism but I can't blame Hogan as that was what he was given to read or talk about. -- -- 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 --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
