Writerly Ways
May. 15th, 2022 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnesswill be tomorrow. I'm done in. That heat did me worse than I thought. I was pretty crappy all morning and then I put in grades ALL day. It's done and now to start with the incredible amount of paperwork and prep for next fall.
I don't have the brain power for any writing thoughts.
So I will talk about those cancellations. Honestly Magnum PI doesn't upset me much. It had four years. Legends of Tomorrow same. Batwoman I had already given up on but when you sit back and really look at the pattern it's depressing. After the Warner Brothers/Discovery merger they announced the ending of ALL scripted tv on TNT and TBS. I don't know if Snowpiercer will be exempt or move to maybe their streaming service.
I've been expecting something like this ever since the last contract for TBBT was announced and Sheldon/Leonard/Penny were all getting a million an episode. Scripted tv is getting so expensive that no one wants to bother with it so they just keep slapping together reality shows (and by that they're including true crime/cooking shows/documentaries). It makes sense from a budget stand point. Regardless of what Guy Fieri and the judges make for an appearance on Guys Grocery Games it's not going to come near chucking a million an episode down a hole or even a more modest salary (I read once most of them average between 1-200,000 an episode on scripted TV)
Making it worse, streaming tv has no ads so who the hell is paying for that? That's half of Netflix's current woes.
But I think a lot of us don't want nothing but reality shows. Most of us aren't going to write fanfic for Dr. Pimple Popper. We're not buying merch for Evil Lives Here. And yet we're here watching an art form fail. Fox has some 20 hours of tv to fill but isn't really considering much in the way of scripted tv if the articles are to be believed. I can't even imagine what will b e on TNT and TBS now. And with 48 hours to go FOx has NOT renewed the resident, or either 911 so who knows.
I find it all depressing. I live in the middle of no where, too rural to stream. TV is expensive but if it's my only entertainment it's not so bad. But I'm not going to be paying for it if it's nothing but reality shows.
Sigh. Okay I need to go out and look for the eclipse without making Rocket run in and out 1001 times.
I don't have the brain power for any writing thoughts.
So I will talk about those cancellations. Honestly Magnum PI doesn't upset me much. It had four years. Legends of Tomorrow same. Batwoman I had already given up on but when you sit back and really look at the pattern it's depressing. After the Warner Brothers/Discovery merger they announced the ending of ALL scripted tv on TNT and TBS. I don't know if Snowpiercer will be exempt or move to maybe their streaming service.
I've been expecting something like this ever since the last contract for TBBT was announced and Sheldon/Leonard/Penny were all getting a million an episode. Scripted tv is getting so expensive that no one wants to bother with it so they just keep slapping together reality shows (and by that they're including true crime/cooking shows/documentaries). It makes sense from a budget stand point. Regardless of what Guy Fieri and the judges make for an appearance on Guys Grocery Games it's not going to come near chucking a million an episode down a hole or even a more modest salary (I read once most of them average between 1-200,000 an episode on scripted TV)
Making it worse, streaming tv has no ads so who the hell is paying for that? That's half of Netflix's current woes.
But I think a lot of us don't want nothing but reality shows. Most of us aren't going to write fanfic for Dr. Pimple Popper. We're not buying merch for Evil Lives Here. And yet we're here watching an art form fail. Fox has some 20 hours of tv to fill but isn't really considering much in the way of scripted tv if the articles are to be believed. I can't even imagine what will b e on TNT and TBS now. And with 48 hours to go FOx has NOT renewed the resident, or either 911 so who knows.
I find it all depressing. I live in the middle of no where, too rural to stream. TV is expensive but if it's my only entertainment it's not so bad. But I'm not going to be paying for it if it's nothing but reality shows.
Sigh. Okay I need to go out and look for the eclipse without making Rocket run in and out 1001 times.
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