24 minutes ago, Errol said:

In order to survive on a streaming service, the show better understand viewers are going to want quality TV. I don't know of any streaming series (i.e. drama) that has ever survived off of its silliness. I'm not saying there can't be room for fun and games, but camp all the time, every time, will not work going forward.

With Peacock, they'll know what people are watching, skipping over, pausing or refusing to watch. Hope TPTB are ready for the immediate audience response.

To be fair... have you seen Riverdale lately?

27 minutes ago, Errol said:

 

 

In order to survive on a streaming service, the show better understand viewers are going to want quality TV. I don't know of any streaming series (i.e. drama) that has ever survived off of its silliness. I'm not saying there can't be room for fun and games, but camp all the time, every time, will not work going forward.

With Peacock, they'll know what people are watching, skipping over, pausing or refusing to watch. Hope TPTB are ready for the immediate audience response.

 

10 minutes ago, te. said:

To be fair... have you seen Riverdale lately?

Stopped watching after the first season. But that's a teen show that airs as little as 18 episodes a season after less than a decade on the air. I can't compare it to a show that's been on the air for 57 years, but at the same time viewers knew what they were getting when both shows began. DAYS can adjust with a clean slate of characters and make a quick adjustment to quality, Riverdale can't because shows like that can't transition with a clean slate. It tends to lead to their demise.

My ultimate point is that DAYS hasn't always been camp and the amount of episodes it has to produce each year, exclusively for streaming, won't work with pure camp.

14 hours ago, Errol said:

 

 

In order to survive on a streaming service, the show better understand viewers are going to want quality TV. I don't know of any streaming series (i.e. drama) that has ever survived off of its silliness. I'm not saying there can't be room for fun and games, but camp all the time, every time, will not work going forward.

With Peacock, they'll know what people are watching, skipping over, pausing or refusing to watch. Hope TPTB are ready for the immediate audience response.

Only for it to, what, change in eight-months' time? This is the flaw in the current taping model.

19 hours ago, te. said:

To be fair... have you seen Riverdale lately?

To be fair, not many people have, it's ratings are terrible lmao.

Errol's right, the show can't survive on streaming being mindless drivel that I'm sure for the majority of the audience left it's just habit and treated like background noise.

4 hours ago, Darn said:

To be fair, not many people have, it's ratings are terrible lmao.

It's not successful in linear ratings no, but it still has sizeable audience on streaming since it appeals to the 18-34 demographic. Which is the point. Nonsense can survive on streaming and I don't think there's necessarily a quality-meter as to what survives on streaming.

Of course, DAYS would've needed to make a big splash and a soft reboot to get people to watch it instead of doing this wet far thing, but that's another issue.

Tomorrow's spoiler pics. 

So with Sonny being attacked I'm wondering if Andrew Donovan will make his debut on the main show to investigate it.

4 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

Tomorrow's spoiler pics. 

Thanks for posting!

 

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