Members OLTL_fan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Thats just tacky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 This is from another board but I thought it was worth posting. In this weeks entermainment weekly, there is an article about talk shows taking over daytime. The head of CBS Les Moonves says that his network went from losing $25 million to making about $100 million in daytime by getting rid of two soaps and adding talk and game shows. Then it says that ABC is following CBS' lead and this quote from Brian Frons "People are really interested in multiple points of view, multiple voices. Daytime viewers are also saying that if they are going to give us an hour a day, we need to give them something that is going to improve their lives." Later on he says, "You can't spend more money for less audience. That's why you see people going toward programming forms that cost less to produce." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Whatever. Soaps are dead and Frons and Moonves are writhing and laughing Vivian-style on their grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Frons & Moonves do STFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OLTL_fan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'd rather have game shows instead of talk shows. I watch Lets Make a Deal when home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 LOL to the Vivian reference. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Yet they never, ever mention either of these shows anymore, after hyping The Talk for months. I guess there's nothing to mention when your show is only known for firing people. I love how Frons is claiming that these are different voices when ABC is so lazy they even give them the same titles. It's filler, and I don't know why they pretend otherwise. They see viewers as stupid and fat and easily distracted, so this is the monkey flinging crap. Fine. But please stop pretending it's anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Vixen Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'd take Let's Make a Deal over a generic talk show any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Traitor. Can't have anything else on in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OLTL_fan Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 yea like DAYS or B&B? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members SFK Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Could, and often do, but when I'm working (and when it was particularly awful) I had AMC on as "background" as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Vixen Posted December 2, 2011 Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 I say again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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