Night time talk shows, they don't have a clue what to do unless someone writes for them.

Name some, OP.

I wasn’t around back then.

Originally posted by steven1mac:

Night time talk shows, they don't have a clue what to do unless someone writes for them.

That wasn't it. Late night talk shows existed to promote the entertainment industry, they are advertainment, they completely lost the plot along with the hollywood types going full political trashing their brands and the existence of the movie star. So without a purpose it just became cringe propaganda, doesn't matter if they have writers or not, its terrible.

We’re supposed to believe that Colbert being cancelled was politicallly motivated when the show lost 40 million a year while Colbert is paid 20 million annually all the while getting less views then YouTubers. I think people who watch night shows are all over 60 at least

It’s funny that the few hundreds of fossils that watch it are ragging on paramounts decision

Originally posted by Doomerang:

We’re supposed to believe that Colbert being cancelled was politicallly motivated when the show lost 40 million a year while Colbert is paid 20 million annually all the while getting less views then YouTubers. I think people who watch night shows are all over 60 at least

It’s funny that the few hundreds of fossils that watch it are ragging on paramounts decision

IMO it was both. They were just looking for reason and had it.

Originally posted by sleeping lain:

Originally posted by Doomerang:

We’re supposed to believe that Colbert being cancelled was politicallly motivated when the show lost 40 million a year while Colbert is paid 20 million annually all the while getting less views then YouTubers. I think people who watch night shows are all over 60 at least

It’s funny that the few hundreds of fossils that watch it are ragging on paramounts decision

IMO it was both. They were just looking for reason and had it.

Oh I'm sure they would be happy to lose money forever if he had been politically effective, these are ways they get around campaign financing laws to fund political propaganda. Its really cheap to them, he just was no longer useful, became too obviously cringe.

Its why the "go woke go broke" often doesn't work, they are losing money on purpose, its a donation.

Season 1 of Breaking Bad was apparently supposed to be 9 episodes, but had to be cut down to 7 due to the writers' strike.

Originally posted by Affronter:

Name some, OP.

I wasn’t around back then.

Haha, well, I do got one example that caused me to make this thread. Also, did you know there was a big boom of reality shows because of this strike?

My Name Is Earl, S3 (This show is about a trashy redneck criminal who realized he is a POS after winning the lottery, getting hit by a car, and learning about karma while high on morphine. The formula is simply this guy trying to make it up to everyone he has wronged while learning important lessons. The list is THE center of the show, but in S3 they temporarily pause that and have a prison arc which also leads to the worst episode Creative Writing. He still helps prisoners out with their dilemmas, but it stops temporarily being about how he wronged people and more becomes about a reflection of how he has wronged people.

Bonus, but not exactly what I was going for is Breaking Bad. Season 1 was very short because of the strike, and Jesse was supposed to be killed off but wasn't. Funny enough, Tuco Salamanca's actor is in the prison arc of Earl and is in more episodes of that than BB (not counting screen time or BCS!)

Originally posted by Dwerklesberry:

Originally posted by sleeping lain:

IMO it was both. They were just looking for reason and had it.

Oh I'm sure they would be happy to lose money forever if he had been politically effective, these are ways they get around campaign financing laws to fund political propaganda. Its really cheap to them, he just was no longer useful, became too obviously cringe.

Its why the "go woke go broke" often doesn't work, they are losing money on purpose, its a donation.

It does make me rub my chin curiously that a bunch of rich people go on TV and say "the working class/minorities/this and that are being treated unfairly!" but then will go in their private jets or mansions or fancy cars. I like John Oliver, but at the end of the day he is not someone that is struggling to pay bills or struggling to pay for college tuition or medical debt or anything like you and I would. He is comfortable. And it isn't wrong to be comfortable, lord knows if you got privilege that doesn't hurt others use it, but...c'mon man idk

community season 4 happened due to dan supporting writers, when he was placed between writers unions and private showrunning/producing interests.

I heard a lot of shows scripts were ai written and then tweaked into something more marketable during this period. Sort of what Mad Men was circling around.

People have also compared it to the British Empire crashing the grain market on purpose in 1917. There was an enormous push for British production during this period, and the forces which halted this were the same ones that incited the strike as well.

It starts to look like a top-down imposition on culture.