Their challenge will be that almost certainly the large fraction of Colbert Nation will be switching to CBS at 11:35 - and most of them are also part of TDS audience. So, will it still make sense for them to package a TDS comedy hour? I don't recall what used to follow TDS before CR - but CC must be wanting not to go back to what probably was a lower-rated half hour. It seems like they have to choose between a new show in the same comic universe and with the same sensibility as TDS/CR (and of that I love the idea of a Bee/Jones Morning Show, although Aasif Mandvi is one of my favorite people on television right now, and anything he was interested in doing I would be interested in watching. He is actually capable of doing very silly humor, very tight satire, and very serious commentary, and a show that combined those would be fantastic) or going in the direction of a sketch show, and broaden to people not into the more political comedy of the TDS. I will be surprised if they do some kind of wheel format at 11:30 - for me at least (and I am much older than their target demo) one reason I don't watch Key and Peele as often as I would like is that I don't have any real sense of when it is on. I have a season pass set for it now to record new shows, but I have no sense of what one of those might be coming. The TDS/CR Hour has given CC a real core, stable identity, and I would think they would be hoping to retain that somehow.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:25 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Any value in expanding TDS to 60 minutes? I suspect the staff works >> plenty hard as it is, but if CC is stuck on having an hour of news satire >> (which doesn't strike me as a given), I'd think they would consider it. >> > > Value to CC, sure. Would Stewart agree to it? Nah. > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
