10-18-2018, 06:22 PM
(10-18-2018, 06:31 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: What matters most to the decision makers is profit. How much the show can bring in from advertisers, syndication, DVD sales, streaming sales, etc., vs how much the show costs to make vs how the numbers crunchers predict an alternative show will do by comparison.
Audience politics, religion, etc., matter only to the extent to which they affect the above. If a show is extremely popular in a given part of the country but its P/L figures don't add up well, it's toast. If certain segments of the population are screaming and calling for boycotts because it has offended them but it's profitable as all hell, it will live on.
Interviews are often strategic. When actors, producers. etc., praise the network for "believing in us," that means the ratings weren't so hot but someone came to their rescue by persuading the suits that the profit was still there and they're stroking that person. When they talk about how much a certain demographic loves the show, that's an effort to attract more viewers in that demographic because the numbers are actually not so great. Prospective viewers can be made curious about something by telling them that people like them love it.
And you always call a show a "hit show" in PR when you're trying to sell, resell or reboot it. As long as it had one good season, you're not fibbing.
Sorry Face, your generalization does not apply to both of the shows I mentioned in today's day and age. Grimm was still kicking ass in its time slot winch in turn, by your own analogy demands higher revenue from commercials which in turn equates more profit.
As for "Last man Standing. It was the number one comedy sit com on network broadcast TV and the 2nd highest rated sit-com on ABC. Number one comedy for all the days and time slots. That show, which, has been renewed by Fox and broadcasted by them, was taken off the air by the newly appointed ABC executive and staunch liberal for one reason only. The star of the show Tim Allen, a conservative, ridiculed liberals and he was funny at it.
I don't know where you live, but here in the USA, liberals love to dish it out, but they can't take it. Before you rebuff my post, please do your homework and inform your self better about both of these shows and you will find, Politics had lots to do with their cancellation, not the BS babel put out by ABC about picking up production costs. That show made lots of money.
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