I remember reading or hearing a sitcom showrunner say that the syndication market is no longer what it once was and making the hundredth episode is no longer a guarantee of wealth for the writers and actors.
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:59 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > I wager that with more 'air" to fill on cable thanks to the de-niching of > certain channels, the studios are getting more lucrative deals there than > in the syndie market. Plus there's always streaming... > > On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 12:12:42 PM UTC-4 Mark Jeffries wrote: > >> For quite a few years now, it was guaranteed that in the two hours before >> prime time you could turn to your local independent/Fox/UPN/WB/CW/MyTV >> station and get an alternative to news, celebrity gossip, Pat and Vanna and >> Alex in the form of syndicated reruns of sitcoms--the good, the bad and the >> mediocre. >> >> Well, in Chicago at least that's not the case anymore. As new syndicated >> shows start to pop up this week, the only station where you can watch a >> sitcom at dinnertime is Weigel's CW affil WCIU, where you can watch "The >> Neighborhood" at 6 and 6:30 p.m. As if you wanted to watch it first run on >> CBS Monday nights. The 5 p.m. hour on "CW 26" is filled with "Judge Judy" >> reruns (as you may know, her first-run judging is now on Amazon's Freevee >> streamer). >> >> Well, what's on the other non-Big 3 station? On Nexstar indie WGN, it's >> two hours of news, as it has been for many years now. On Fox's WFLD, it's >> an hour of news at 5 and an hour of "Family Feud" at 6 p.m.--they didn't >> renew for "Big Bang Theory" and WGN picked it up for prime time. And on >> sister station MyTV affil WPWR, it's *another* hour of "Family Feud" at 5 >> p.m. (seems to me Debmar-Mercury feeds six "Feud" episodes a day) and two >> new game shows from Fox First Run at 6 (they both ran test shows either >> last year or earlier this year): "Person, Place or Thing," a not-bad >> update of "20 Questions" appealingly fronted by Melissa Peterman, and "Who >> the Bleep is That?", a celebrity identification game produced by Fox-owned >> TMZ, which may be all you need to know. >> >> Of course, with the changes afoot in television lately, it seems unlikely >> that there will be more shows coming down the pike to get to the 100 >> episode number, although "The Conners" will probably make it (and what are >> they going to do with those first season episodes with Roseanne Barr?) and >> those involved are rooting for "Ghosts" and "Abbott Elementary"--and also, >> the stations seem to prefer multi-cams to one-camera shows--good luck on >> that. >> >> The Fox-owned stations seem to think that the future is in game shows, I >> guess with "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel" going through the host changes recently >> and next year,the fact that "Modern Family" and "The Simpsons" are their >> only remaining sitcoms and Disney will probably want more money to renew >> them--along with "Feud" and the two new shows, they've picked up reruns of >> Game Show Network's "People Puzzler" (based on the crossword puzzle for >> idiots in People magazine) and in-house "25 Words or Less" and in-house-CBS >> Media's "Pictionary" continue (but Big Jaw's reboot of "You Bet Your Life" >> isn't, presumably because of Leno's recent accidents). And you'll find >> sitcom reruns in late-night against the talk shows--oh shoot, there's >> another dying genre. >> > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/913b0aec-c65e-4a53-9e3e-efd3c6aa5857n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/913b0aec-c65e-4a53-9e3e-efd3c6aa5857n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGqY5CmtDYtuDfKnCcZjKtnOn1dzui8myDq3m5V48g%2Bzg%40mail.gmail.com.
