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End of Primetime
Last week was the last class of Primetime: the Game of Television. All in all I had mixed feelings about the class. It was fun, but it got kind of tedious towards the end. I think the main benefit was the constant idea generation when we were producers - in both Seasons 1 & 3. [...]
End of Season 3
So Season 3 was only two weeks long - not really time to have a third week when this Tuesday is the last class.
Candid Bums did surprisingly well - 5% at least for each time slot I believe.
Paul Simms, the writer and executive producer of News Radio (a show I’d never heard of, but [...]
Making Money
In season 3 of Primetime it’s impossible for the Networks not to lose money. You can’t get enough money from the advertisers to come even close to covering even an A show.
Our response has been to create the cheapest TV possible - 3 hours of DV footage shot by a homeless person and edited [...]
Season 3 Week 1
These were my two show ideas. I think they’re pretty funny and retarded enough to be popular. My teammates only chose the one with The Rock. We’ll see how that does in the ratings.
Play Your Ex
Paris Hilton hosts the gameshow where ex couples come face to face and answer questions about their past together [...]
Tax week
Last week in Primetime was tax week. Jason had already handed in tax for us.
We did OK in the ratings - Garden State was the only thing to top its time. I was surprised, but I guess the other options on Friday night were not good.
Season 3 starts today.
Actors are back in, but syndication [...]
Some Original Programming
So this week I insisted that we busy some original programming. The syndicated shows didn’t do too well. That didn’t matter though, because we still made money.
This week’s Viewers’ Guide
Syndication
Here is the line up for ABC this week:
Viewers’ Guide
This week we’re trying a totally different strategy - almost all our shows are syndicated. This means they are cheaper and less work for us as the descriptions tend to be copied from the originals. We needed to do cheap shows this week as advertising budgets [...]
ABC Network
Our first Viewers’ Guide
We’ll see how the shows we chose do.
Farewell to Rockett Productions
So this was the last week of season 1. Our new show Sweep Up (renamed by NBC to Dirty Love, which I think is probably an improvement) did quite well.
For the next season Jenny, Candice and I will be working with a guy called Jason. We’re ABC network. I think being a network will be [...]
Brad and Angelina and Will Ferrell
Last week I didn’t get to vote because Mali’s e-mail with the links to the surveys didn’t come to me for some reason. This meant I wasn’t as excited to see the ratings as the previous week. It was a bit of a disaster in the end - my new show The Illustrator got only [...]
