Darnell is now running the reality arm of Warner Bros. So far, besides
keeping Mark Burnett and NBC happy with "The Voice" (which is actually
owned by a company now owned by the UK's' ITV) and ABC happy with "The
Bachelor" franchise, he's tried a flashy hard quiz show with Burnett ("500
Questions"), Ellen DeGeneres' brand extensions of her talk show (her new
NBC game show and Steve Harvey's "Little Big Shots," which is based on an
Ellen segment), the reboot of Warners property in North America "Whose
Line?" (and I'm surprised that no one hasn't tried to swallow up Hat Trick,
which seems to be able to do both scripted and unscripted successfully) and
the reboot of Warners property everywhere in the world "Love Connection."
Which means he has about as much of a clue of what to do with unscripted
as anybody else. And I still can't figure out why Burnett in his current
role as boss of MGM TV is sitting on the Heatter-Quigley game show formats
and not doing anything with them, since I think that some of the shows
could still be viable formats. It's almost as though because their most
successful format ("Hollywood Squares") is owned by CBS, he's thinking to
hell with it. (And with our luck, he'd probably pick "The Magnificent
Marble Machine" as worthy of revival.)
Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
[email protected]
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> ...the reboot of "The Gong Show" with Mike Meyers hosting pretending to
>> be a Brit (or so it seems)
>>
>
> One thing I always like about our group and this forum is that we don't
> have a high capacity for industry marketing bullshit. It is clear that
> Myers is hosting The Gong Show as a parody character. In the THR article
> with an interview with Tommy Maitland there were enough clues to verify it
> is Myers. Since the idea we don't know for sure is just part of the show's
> marketing we do not have to play along.
>
> For the rest of the story about OTA reality programming I was going to say
> that FOX misses Mike Darnell but I don't know if Darnell would have any
> fresh ideas that would breathe new life into the genre. His stunt dating
> shows can't compete with cable shows like Naked Blind Date or whatever it's
> called. The modern wave of reality TV started with Survivor in 2000 and
> it's surprising that it is so played out in only 17 years.
>
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