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Friday, October 06, 2006
Are TV shows worth their price tags?
Marketplace: "The cost of producing one season of a TV show is now on par with the price of making a movie. Given the slim chances of a show succeeding, is it money well spent?"
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
This article doesn't really talk about time slots either. I know this past Wednesday I heard people arguing about which season premiere to watch because every networks top show was in the same time slot. I wouldn't be suprised if shows like "Lost" started having the option of a free webcast of an episode for the duration of time between when that episode and the following episode airs on TV. -Serrano
the tv industry is at a time where shows like friends, seinfeld, will & grace (largely popular shows) are closing and once-popular shows (like ER) are fading into the background. I think networks are pouring in money to see who can recapture the audiences that these shows have left behind. is it a misallocation of funds? it's hard to say since their job is to attract as many people as they can to promote their network, and sometimes a big price tag helps (however, i think the real factor is the lack of originality in the shows the money is being put into.) -Maddie Regan
The television world seems to ride on the idea of feast or famine. When there were only a handful of thriving reality tv shows, next season there were 30 more crappy ones. It appears that TV tries to capitalize on what is popular AS it is popular. The time it takes to produce a tv show from its first conception seems to always outlast the freshness and originality of the idea. As a result of television having to think so far in advance, one could argue that theatre is a much more effective way to produce art as the lin time is far less. (in nearly all cases, perhaps Pirate Queen excluded.)
3 comments:
This article doesn't really talk about time slots either. I know this past Wednesday I heard people arguing about which season premiere to watch because every networks top show was in the same time slot. I wouldn't be suprised if shows like "Lost" started having the option of a free webcast of an episode for the duration of time between when that episode and the following episode airs on TV.
-Serrano
the tv industry is at a time where shows like friends, seinfeld, will & grace (largely popular shows) are closing and once-popular shows (like ER) are fading into the background. I think networks are pouring in money to see who can recapture the audiences that these shows have left behind. is it a misallocation of funds? it's hard to say since their job is to attract as many people as they can to promote their network, and sometimes a big price tag helps (however, i think the real factor is the lack of originality in the shows the money is being put into.)
-Maddie Regan
In response to Maddie's comment...
The television world seems to ride on the idea of feast or famine. When there were only a handful of thriving reality tv shows, next season there were 30 more crappy ones. It appears that TV tries to capitalize on what is popular AS it is popular. The time it takes to produce a tv show from its first conception seems to always outlast the freshness and originality of the idea. As a result of television having to think so far in advance, one could argue that theatre is a much more effective way to produce art as the lin time is far less. (in nearly all cases, perhaps Pirate Queen excluded.)
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