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#K5NewsFMExclusive: A Dark and Dramatic Conclusion as the 4th Season of Wakfu will be the Last Season of its historic French cartoon series (updated as FINAL!!!)
(Written by Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong / Freelanced News Reporter and Presenter of OneNETnews)
ROUBAIX, FRANCE -- The upcoming Season Premiere of Wakfu, which will air on the 'Okoo' kids and teens programming block through French public broadcaster 'France Televisions' is set to be a dramatic heartstopping conclusion. This will mark the beginning of the show's 4th and Final Season, scheduled to debut in early mid-February 2024. It is worth mentioning to recall that the entire production at Ankama Studios in France has been successfully concluded, thanks to the global campaign fund of Kickstarter that took place in late-June 2020.
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Per the press release exclusively obtained through DWFH-FM 97.7mhz's K5 News FM, the latest synopsis for the final season of a French cartoon show portrays intense and potentially darker scenes that comes up a bit close to happen: "After their destructive battle with Oropo, but also with their own demons, Yugo the Eliatrope and his friends find themselves at the gates of Ingloriom, the realm of the Gods. The Tofu Brotherhood (TFB) has no time to wonder what fate the 12 Divinities have in store for them for this sacrilege: the floating territory is devastated!".
(SCREENGRAB COURTESY: FranceTVPro website)
(PHOTO COURTESY: Google Images)
Before an actual final season premiere on a national French television, a sneak preview in the panel is yet to be shown in-person at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (AICF) on Thursday late-afternoon (January 25th, 2024 at 5:30pm -- France local time).
(PHOTO COURTESY: AICF via X Network's FranceTVPro)
Inside a panel in Angoulême City, the said country, will discuss about the upcoming 4th and Final Season of the show, in the presence of Wakfu show creator named Anthony "Tot" Roux, one of the authors with French YouTuber personality (Malec) and Wakfu's historical Character Designer (Sonia Demechlis).
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In a televised trailer 'X Network' (formerly Twitter) released Tuesday afternoon (January 16th, 2024), the heroes of the Brotherhood of the Tofu, Yugo the Eliatrope, Prncs. Amalia Sheran Sharm, Ms. Evangelyne the Cra, Mr. Ruel Stroud and among others have fought against formidable enemies and ancient evils. But sadly, things are gone crazier and darker situations as the fate of 'The World of 12' rests on their shoulders.
K5 News FM learns exclusively that the runtime for this 4th Season of Wakfu is 22 minutes long, with a final 13 new episodes.
(FILE SCREENGRAB COURTESY: Generation TV_FR via YT VIDEO)
French cartoon show of Wakfu was started in the late-October 2008 during France 3's kids programming block "Toowam", before transitioning to Ludo (home of between Wakfu on the said date of 2008 and LoliRock in the late mid-October 2014).
(FILE PHOTO COURTESY for REPRESENTATION: Zodiak Kids and Family for Banijay & Ankama Studios / Editing Provided by the Anonymous Artists, and from the top left to the bottom right: Lyna, Carrisa, Talia, Iris, Aurianna, Evangelyne, Yugo the Eliatrope, Prncs. Amalia Sheran Sharm)
At the time of the writing with a confirmation from Ankama Studios and Zodiak Kids & Family (part of Banijay Group), theories in French kids cartoon suggest between LoliRock and Wakfu will not be planning to do a crossover episode for now, in and outside of this same public broadcasting network on Wakfu's final season for France Televisions.
As reported exclusively between AnimeTVFrance news bureau (via The X Network) and Ankama News (also via the press release division of Wakfu), we do know that the new episodes to be aired back-2-back on primetime until early mid-March 2024.
With this, you can catch LIVE new episodes of the final 4th Season of Wakfu, premieres February 9th, 2024 at 1:30pm Eastern / 12:30pm Central (in the United States) / 7:30pm in France -- only on France 4's Okoo programming block and streaming LIVE via the France TV website, Animation Digital Network (ADN) and on the Okoo app for Google Play and Apple App Stores in France.
PHOTO COURTESY: Ankama Animations
SOURCE:
*https://www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-presse/64569626 [Referenced Event Listings via FranceTVPro]
*https://www.youtube.com/@malec3821 [Referenced YT Home Page via Malec]
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoul%C3%AAme_International_Comics_Festival
*https://www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-presse/64684101 [Referenced PR News Article via FranceTVPro]
*https://twitter.com/Totankama/status/1736789152455131477 [Referenced X Network Captioned VIDEO via Totankama]
*https://twitter.com/francetvslash/status/1744403591736050165 [Referenced X Network Captioned VIDEO #1 via FranceTVSlash]
*https://twitter.com/francetvslash/status/1747280767598641312 [Referenced X Network Captioned VIDEO #2f via FranceTVSlash]
*https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toowam
*https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoliRock
*https://www.banijaykidsandfamily.com/shows/lolirock/ [Referenced Show Biography via Banijay Kids and Family website]
*https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saison_4_de_Wakfu
*https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakfu_(s%C3%A9rie_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9e_d%27animation)
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWsaz7gxI4 [Referenced YT VIDEO via Kass Koui]
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_7yLJQZ6JA [Referenced Classic YT Video via Generation TV_FR]
*https://twitter.com/francetvpro/status/1750584660021666155 [Referenced X Network Captioned PHOTO via FranceTVPro]
*https://www.wakfu.com/en/mmorpg/news/announcements/1680321-wakfu-s4-soon-available-viewing [Referenced News Article via Ankama News for Wakfu PR Division]
*https://www.france.tv/france-3/wakfu/saison-4/5698308-wakfu-saison-4-des-le-9-fevrier-sur-okoo-et-france-tv.html [Reference News Article via France 3 Info]
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*https://twitter.com/animetv_fr/status/1754591809651507421 [Referenced X Network Post via AnimeTVFrance News Bureau]
-- OneNETnews Team
#k5 news fm#entertainment news#roubaix#france#wakfu#season 4#saison 4#the final season#cartoon#french#fyp#ankama#awareness#exclusive#first and exclusive#OneNETnews
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S03E02: Sparker Reborn (Part 1)
1. A Brand New Bob
Six months into Bob Sparker's suspension...
"Mr. King!"
Percy looked up from where he was sitting at his desk, intently studying a report. It took him a moment to even recognize the voice--he hadn't heard the caw of his ex-number one primetime earner for at least six months.
"Bob?" He said, blinking. "What are you doing here?"
Bob Sparker looked just as taken aback as Percy was. "Well--I mean--" he sputtered. He was holding what looked like a large easel, with something wrapped in canvas tucked under one arm, and he began to busily set it up. "You said I could come to you if I needed anything, right?"
Percy searched his mind. Yes, he thought, I probably did say that at one point. "Of course," he replied. "But I'm actually rather busy at the--"
"This'll take two seconds, I promise!" Bob set up the easel and propped the cloth-wrapped object on it. "I have great news for you, boss. Just great."
With a flourish he drew the cloth off of the canvas. Upon it was a brilliantly rendered oil painting of a dark mountain, looking much like the kind found in the range that ringed Electric Valley. Behind the mountain was a halo of light in flourishing reds, yellows and pinks. It took a long moment for Percy to process that what he was seeing was a sunrise.
"And this is...?" he ventured.
"This," Bob proclaimed, patting the canvas affectionately, "is the future. My future." He drew in a breath. "Mr. King, I'm leaving the company."
Percy stopped, considered this, and laced his fingers together. "To become an artist?"
"Oh, no!" Bob laughed. "No, no, I got this from Alice Lang. She's doing great, by the way, thanks for helping her out. No, this is gonna be the guiding star for my new television network!"
The room was silent for a moment. "Your...excuse me?" Percy said, tilting his head. "Your what now?"
"My new television network," Bob repeated, puffing his chest out with pride. "It's gonna be something new, something completely different. One with humanity, where we bring people up instead of running 'em through a meat grinder. No offense," he added quickly. "I did like being the meat grinder guy."
"Wait, wait, wait. Back up a moment." Percy sat back, rubbing his temples with one hand and tapping his pen on the desk with the other. "So you're leaving the company...and founding a television network all by yourself?"
"Not by myself, no." Bob's smile grew wider. "Jam's coming with me. He's gonna be my talent scout. He knows everything about everything when it comes to up-and-coming artists and musicians! Margaret's helping, too, when she's able to, plus she's footing the bill. And Miss Lang is going to be our first profile. Best of all, it'll be free!"
"Free?" Percy repeated. "How on earth--"
Bob pulled out a small notebook and flipped through it. "Public television," he explained. "If we can get approval from the municipal government, the whole thing'll be funded by taxpayers. Television by the people, for the people," he announced, beaming with pride.
Percy sat back in his swivel chair, crossing one leg over the other. "Public television? Please," he scoffed. "Bob, you're far too good for that. Give it six more months and I'll have you back on the air. The producers at Zap! Entertainment actually sent me a pitch this morning," he remarked, turning his attention back to the layers of documents on his desk. "Something about 'a hundred contestants enter, one leaves...'"
"Mr. King."
Percy looked up. Bob stood in front of him, his hands clasped nervously together. "I really appreciate everything you've done for me," he said. "Really, I...I do. But this is something I have to do. For myself, and for Electricopolis."
"Then what do you need me for? It sounds as if you have everything all planned out."
"Well, to kick off our programming, we were thinking of throwing a festival," Bob ventured carefully. "A celebration of art and artisans from across the city, that kind of thing. We would provide space and lighting, of course. And we could have an Electric Park at the end of it all, a huge light show right in the middle of the top tier!" he explained, slowly becoming more and more animated. "I was hoping, you know, as a going-away present--that you might sign off on it, that's all. It might be kind of hefty on the power bill."
Percy considered this. "I suppose I'll...see what I can do."
"Thanks so much, Mr. King!" Bob grabbed Percy's hand in his own and pumped it gratefully. "You've always believed in me, even when nobody else did--and I hope to make you proud!"
Percy blinked again, stared at him, almost baffled--and then his face settled back into his trademark wan smile. "Of course," he said soothingly. "Of course."
Bob wrapped up his painting and practically skipped out the door, leaving Percy in his office, alone, with a throbbing headache. He turned away towards the window, leaving the half-read report on the town's energy crisis lying on top of his desk.
The city was far underneath him, the clouds not so high above. The Top Tier CEO's office was at the very summit of the town, just about--the only thing taller was the broadcast tower. This town was his, and for the longest time it had ticked along in perfect harmony with itself, every part an integral member of a well-oiled machine.
Every schoolchild knew the history of the town, though perhaps not all of it. Electricopolis was founded centuries ago after a colossal meteorite had landed in the middle of a mountain range. Though difficult to get to from the outside world, the area proved to now be full of precious hydrocarbons that could be extracted and processed into fuel. A mad rush for the territory began, during which various countries--and corporations--launched expedition after expedition to access the valley.
Many of the expeditions failed. But one particular company succeeded in seizing the territory, and began to construct a city for the purpose of exporting the hydrocarbon fuel. But when the colony proved to become rich enough to buy out its parent corporation, the city became truly self-sufficient: fresh water was created from the hydrogen molecules below and the oxygen in the air, and some of the simpler hydrocarbons turned into nitrate-rich fertilizers for the city's hydroponic farms. In short, everything they needed was here.
And so the outside world became nothing but a distraction. Centuries on, Electricopolis had cut off all ties with the outside and turned inward, focusing only on itself, concerned only with itself. But there were only so many resources left below the surface of the earth. And every day the fuel was running lower, and the brownouts became longer and longer...
Percy drummed his fingers against his desktop.
Surely there was a way to kill two birds with one stone.
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NBC News on Friday announced that it had hired Ronna McDaniel, the former Republican National Committee chair who has repeatedly attacked the network and its journalists, assailed the news media as “fake news” and promoted false claims around the 2020 vote, as an on-air commentator ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
“It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics at NBC News, said in a memo to staff.
McDaniel exited the RNC earlier this month after leading the organization since 2016.
During her time as chair, McDaniel repeatedly attacked the press, which has become increasingly popular in Republican circles over the last several years as Donald Trump demonizes journalists and news institutions.
McDaniel echoed many such attacks, labeling the press as “fake news” and calling the media “corrupt.” At times, she even targeted NBC News and MSNBC with dishonest attacks.
In 2019, for instance, McDaniel accused Richard Engel, NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent, of “actively cheering for an economic downturn.”
“How can NBC let him keep his job when he’s made his bias so clear?” McDaniel asked.
McDaniel has a lengthier history attacking the progressive cable news channel MSNBC, which she will appear on in her new role. In recent years, she has repeatedly attacked the channel for “spreading lies” and blasted those she described as the network’s “primetime propagandists.”
An NBC spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment about her attacks on the news media and NBC.
In her role as RNC chief, McDaniel also fanned the flames of election denialism after the 2020 presidential contest.
McDaniel was involved in a phone call in 2020 to pressure Michigan county officials not to certify the vote from the Detroit area, where Joe Biden had a commanding lead. McDaniel told the officials, regarding the certification: “Do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
The Michigan Department of State’s office condemned her claims of supposed voter fraud in the wake of the election, stating they had “no merit.” The state’s “elections were conducted fairly, effectively and transparently and are an accurate reflection of the will of Michigan voters,” it said in a detailed fact check posted online.
NBC’s hiring of McDaniel, however, plays into a recent trend at the network’s outlets, which has seemingly softened its stance on Trump as he inches toward the Republican nomination for president.
Earlier this month, CNBC hosted Trump for a lengthy phone interview in which the network’s anchors allowed him to peddle lies and conspiracy theories on air without scrutiny.
MSNBC has even started carrying Trump’s remarks live on television, a practice that the network boasted for years it would not do. Star host Rachel Maddow, who has said carrying Trump’s lies on the air is dangerous, even objected to the network broadcasting a recent speech from the presumptive Republican nominee, calling it “irresponsible.”
MSNBC has no plans to have former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on the cable network, its president told employees following the news of her hiring at NBC News.
Rashida Jones, the cable network’s president, has been seeking to address internal backlash in the wake of an internal Friday announcement by NBC News regarding McDaniel’s hiring as an on-air contributor.
In that internal memo, the political chief, Carrie Budoff Brown, said McDaniel would contribute “across all NBC News platforms,” causing turmoil among several of the network’s on-air hosts and staffers, people familiar with the matter said. MSNBC is part of the NBC News division.
Rashida Jones daughter of Quincy Jones & Peggy Lipton
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/msnbc-has-no-plans-to-have-ex-rnc-chief-on-network-0d88e70c
In February, Ms. McDaniel urged Republicans to unite behind Mr. Trump after his victory in the New Hampshire primary, irking Nikki Haley, his rival who had not yet dropped out of the race. Mr. Trump has since installed his daughter-in-law and a close adviser to lead the R.N.C., tightening his hold over the party.
Other prominent Republican commentators at NBC News include Marc Short, who served as chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, and Brendan Buck, a former top aide to Paul Ryan and John Boehner. NBC’s Democratic commentators include former Senator Claire McCaskill and David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s former campaign manager.
Ms. McDaniel’s NBC debut will be on this Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press.”
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Two decades ago, CBS spun off a show about criminal investigations led by a niche unit of the U.S. Navy from the network’s legal drama “JAG.” When it first premiered on the broadcast network, “NCIS” was hardly a hit, landing as only the No. 23 most-watched program of the season against juggernauts like CBS’ “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” Fox’s “American Idol” and NBC’s “Friends.”
It took U.S. audiences a few years to come around, but the Mark Harmon-led show performed well with overseas audiences — particularly in Australia, the U.K. and Europe. By Season 7, the show grew into the most-watched broadcast drama on TV. In 2023, with the flagship series in its 20th season and having spawned four spin-off shows, more than 300 million people across the world watched the “NCIS” franchise across all platforms, according to CBS data.
On Monday night, the franchise will air its 1,000th episode, an inspiring milestone for a collection of CBS crime procedurals in the age of declining linear television. The only other primetime TV franchise to have reached 1,000 episodes are Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order” shows.
The feat by “NCIS” is just as impressive considering how its flagship evolved from a small show in its early seasons into a global phenomenon comprising five series and over 46 seasons of highly-rated television — with more still to come.
“When [“NCIS”] began I figured it’s an America-only show that’s not going to necessarily play well globally. But the show really took off internationally before it did in the States,” CBS Studios president David Stapf, who was the network’s head of current programming at the time of the show’s premiere, told TheWrap. “Now knowing what the show is and what’s in its DNA, I see how naive I was.”
Creative and corporate leaders behind the franchise — consisting of “NCIS,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “NCIS: Hawai’i” and “NCIS: Sydney,” the franchise’s first international iteration — said its continued success stems from building strong ensemble casts to tackle inventive cases week after week, while striking a delicate creative balance of high-stakes drama, light humor and a sense of family that appeals to a worldwide audience. The showrunners’ success in “recasting well” and maintaining cost-effective productions has also helped ensure the longevity of “NCIS” — and declining linear TV ratings haven’t stopped the franchise from finding a strong audience in streaming.
“One thing that helps is appealing to a wide range of people, being a show that men can watch and women can watch, and that kids can watch with their parents,” flagship co-showrunner Steven D. Binder told TheWrap. “It also helps that we’re not a serialized show. You can tune in and tune out, although there doesn’t seem to be a lot of tuning out.”
It’s fitting that the flagship series, recently renewed for Season 22, holds the honor of airing the landmark 1,000th hour. But other than ensuring to make the episode special — as they’ve done in the past for the show’s 100th, 250th and other landmark hours — showrunners Binder and David North admit they haven’t had much time to think about making television history.
“It’s one of those things that I think I can’t really answer until I’m like 75 looking back on it,” Binder told TheWrap. Added North, “When you’re in the middle of it, you’re just focused on ‘What are we doing next?’ How can we keep the show interesting and fresh? How can we replace this cast member?’”
While celebrating their own milestone, the showrunners for all five “NCIS” series, along with Stapf and CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach, agreed that they can see other TV franchises replicating this success and longevity — though with shorter episode orders it might take more time.
Overcoming challenges
The “NCIS” flagship has gone through an almost complete cast shakeup in 21 seasons. Sean Murray and Brian Dietzen are the only remaining cast members to have been involved in some capacity since the first season.
Binder and North recalled the first cast exit — the death of Sasha Alexander’s Caitlin Todd — as the “scariest” one to get through. But it also served as a blueprint for introducing characters and dynamics to push the series forward after other high-profile departures. The introduction of characters played by Wilmer Valderrama, Diona Reasonover and Katrina Law made up for the losses of fan favorites like Weatherly, de Pablo and Pauley Perrette.
The biggest challenge came after Harmon stepped away from his role as team leader Leroy Gibbs in Season 19.
“Mark was the face of this thing, so that was a scary time for all of us,” North said.
While cast shakeups have happened across the “NCIS” universe, one behind-the-scenes loss stands out: The sudden death of longtime “NCIS” showrunner and “NCIS: New Orleans” creator Gary Glasberg in 2016 at age 50. Veteran CBS producer Brad Kern stepped in as showrunner of the Scott Bakula-led spin-off, but his tenure was short. After two internal misconduct allegations — reportedly involving mistreatment of female colleagues and making racially insensitive statements — Kern was demoted to consulting producer. He was fired in 2018.
Kern was replaced with franchise veteran Chris Silber and newcomer Jan Nash, who led “NCIS: New Orleans” through the remainder of its seven-season, 155-episode run before it wrapped in 2021. The duo now lead the “Hawai’i” spin-off led by Vanessa Lachey, which is currently in its third season.
“Life happens around you and sometimes it happens directly to your show,” Silber, who worked alongside Glasberg as a writer and producer on “New Orleans” since Season 1, told TheWrap. “I always saw my job at ‘NOLA’ to be the steward of the show that Gary created and following through on his vision… ‘Hawai’i’ was an opportunity for us to start something from the very beginning.”
“NCIS: Los Angeles,” the franchise’s second longest-running series starring LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell, wrapped up in 2023 after 14 seasons and 323 episodes. “LA” showrunner R. Scott Gemmill, who recently announced a new series at Max, “The Pitt,” with former “ER” collaborator John Wells, told TheWrap he’s certain he’ll return to the “NCIS” universe someday.
While the Los Angeles and New Orleans versions had long runs, “all shows have to come to their natural conclusion at some point due to a variety of factors,” Reisenbach told TheWrap. “They were able to wrap up their stories, give their characters great send offs… we’re thrilled with the runs they had.”
Global success worthy of expansion
“NCIS” stands as the top-rated broadcast drama of the past five TV seasons (2018-19 through 2022-23), with an average audience of 10 million per episode in delayed viewing.
The franchise’s global, cross-platform audience of more than 300 million people is 10% higher than the “Law & Order” universe, according to CBS data. Internationally, “NCIS” is licensed in more than 200 markets, and is the No. 1 scripted TV franchise in Australia, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. Along with streaming on Paramount+, 15 seasons of the flagship series are also on Netflix, a likely contributor to its overall visibility on streaming, much like NBCUniversal’s hit “Suits.”
The numbers show why CBS, and parent company Paramount Global, are determined to grow the franchise. Its latest spin-off, “NCIS: Sydney” — contributing eight of the 1,000 episodes with its first season — was an Australian production originally intended to only hit Paramount+ in the U.S. But the Hollywood double strikes left some holes in CBS’ schedule that led to the Olivia Swann-led show’s massive stateside debut (its premiere gathered 10 million viewers across platforms). The show was renewed for a second season that will stay on CBS.
“I’m thrilled to be bringing those characters back to life for a bigger and more ambitious second season,” Morgan O’Neill, the “Sydney” showrunner, told TheWrap.
What’s next for the franchise?
Though audiences seem enamored with the various iterations of “NCIS,” Stapf said he’s meticulous when it comes to developing a new show within its universe. He hears “a lot of ideas” for new shows from writers within the show’s creative ranks and outside pitches. The key to getting a green light is whether a spin-off can stand on its own and present a unique perspective, while still feeling like a good fit for the overall franchise.
That used to mean bringing the DNA of “NCIS” to a different city — or in the case of “Sydney,” to another continent — but the latest CBS spin-off to receive a series order will go back in time. “Origins,” an idea brought to the studio by Harmon and his son Sean, in collaboration with North and Gina Lucita Monreal, will follow the rise of young Leroy Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell) through the NCIS ranks.
“When David (Stapf) sent over the script for ‘Origins,’ it was undeniable,” Reisenbach said. “The audience will be so thrilled when they see a story that’s never been even alluded to before, once you get into the nitty gritty of it. That goes back to the fact we’re not printing out widgets with these shows.”
As for the existing shows? While “NCIS” wrapped production on its latest season, “NCIS: Hawai’i” awaits news about a Season 4 renewal, and “Sydney” is gearing up work on Season 2.
“I remember maybe Season 7 or 8 CBS came with a big cake and said we were the most-watched drama in the world… Then I had my high school reunion shortly after that. I’m standing around talking to people, and I said I was a writer on a show called ‘NCIS’… Like two people recognized it, and the other eight were like ‘What’s that?’ ” Binder recalled. “So as you’re excited. You’re also constantly humbled.”
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sorry none of you can expect me to listen to your analysis of the ‘we didn’t get you from a hyena farm’ line with a straight face. that is objectively the funniest thing ever said on primetime television
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you stated a lot of what i felt. i feel awful that i can’t be as happy as a lot of other people for it finally being revealed that buck is bi (especially since yes, there is no specific rep like this on primetime television as far as i know).
and i mainly feel awful because i saw where tim said that he didn’t even plan for this originally (as he was literally going to bring back lucy), but then because he couldn’t get what he wanted due to the actor being on another show, then he decided okay, yea we’ll reveal he’s bi for this episode. and it was done in such a distasteful way with much neglect towards the other characters.
im just gonna go ahead and say this, but with how everything was executed in this episode, it really does feel like finally revealing buck is bi was not truly done because it was a story the writers wanted to tell for awhile, but it was done out of “we don’t know what else to do for what we wanted to personally show on screen” so here you go, hopefully this brings up our viewership and ratings.
considering oliver advocated for bi buck i have faith they would have done it eventually if they were set on that possibility but more than them not knowing what to do anymore i seriously think it was because it was 100th episode so they wanted to do something major that’s why this whole thing was rushed and idk i’m just like was it worth it. actually can’t wait to see how hen and chimney react to tommy news because that’s gonna fully shape how i feel about the writing of this whole arc :)) i think whatever they plan next they won’t be direct about it in interviews and so but i legit don’t know what to think about people who allowed script for such big eps to be leaked lmao.
only person i trust at this point is drunk ryan he wouldn’t lie to me
#and unless they do full circle with this rn imma keep saying it was bad#actually i will still hate it even then#answered#911 spoilers
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TV Ratings, what they mean, and what about Chicago PD? Part 2.
Hi Everyone! Back here with more TV ratings info for you all. This is a continuation of part one.
How are ratings determined?
As I mentioned in part 1, viewership is tracked via statistical sampling. Have you ever heard of people being “Nielsen families”. That’s still a thing. A small relative sample of people agree to record all of their viewing habits daily and then that is extrapolated over the total TV population to determine ratings and over the total estimated people watching TV to determine share. Want to know more about these families click here!
How to read ratings:
Sigh, it’s complicated to say the least but I will try to simplify as much as I can. At the end of the day, ratings are currency and there are many many ways to read them. You can read them both in context and out of context.
Out of context:
This is basically just looking at one show’s numbers week on week or year on year, at how many “viewers” they have had. The challenge here is that this is, by definition, out of context. A show could be gaining viewers but so could overall tv, or the time slot, and if they are gaining that does not necessarily mean they are winning. The opposite is also true.
In Context:
There are many ways to read ratings in context. This could be by night, by time slot, or by demo, by network, etc. This essentially shows how an episode does relative to these other factors, so…in context. In addition, when ratings are looked at at the beginning of the year for the coming advertising year, you also need to take into account total linear and total video viewing trends. If the pie is shrinking (and for linear tv it is), you can’t simply compare YOY absolute viewership.
What type of TV is Chicago PD
CPD is a network primetime show.
The media lingo for TV is super complex but in its simplest terms you can think of TV as linear (on a television set over the airwaves when it airs) or Streaming (subscription services like Netflix are an example, but there is also free streaming that is ad-supported).
Regular linear TV can be broadcast or cable, and can be prime time or non prime.
By all accounts in the linear TV world broadcast prime is generally the most expensive for advertisers (outside of prime sports like the superbowl) because of high viewership.
Chicago PD Example:
The chart here below shows CPD’s absolute viewership extrapolations and ratings in the key demo for this season (note that the first comparison on viewers is vs. last season’s premiere):
Of course the above is out of context because we don’t see how these compare to other shows on that night. For lots of context there are some awesome graphs here from ep 10x09.
By all accounts, Chicago PD is a Wednesday night powerhouse, handsomely winning the time slot but also showing strong performance in the demo for the night (not easy to do as a 10pm show).
But total viewers are down!
Yes but you can’t compare YOY viewers and make it accurate without doing some math.
Despite what Netflix might want advertisers to think, linear TV is still the dominant form of TV viewing, that said, it has been declining YOY as people shift to streaming. So that means the whole pie has gotten smaller so of course even if you have the same share your total viewers will decline.
Did viewers tank after Jesse’s exit?
Well out of context, it looks like there was a big decline in absolute viewership but you can’t look at stuff out of context. That night was also a world series game. People were tired, survivor was also on. As much as we love him, the absolute decline had nothing to do with him and in context absolute viewers when there are not major sport events have remained stable this season.
What about vs. all shows out there?
See below for the 2021-2022 season chart. Now this was total season ending so does not account for season 10 (which will be the 2022-2023 season).
Yellowstone crushed it and continues to absolutely smash ratings. This is Us had a strong final season. And look who’s after that….
Does this mean there is no way this show or any show will be cancelled? No.
To be clear network broadcast shows are still challenged by the overall landscape factors of overall viewership decline.
What does this specifically mean for shows like CPD? How do advertisers choose which shows to invest in? How does the money flow? Does one (or two or ten) actor’s salary have an impact on any of it? What are network’s obligations to advertisers and what if they fall short? Stay tuned for part 3!
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LONDON -- Michael Gambon, the Irish actor who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, has died at 82.
"We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon," a statement from his family said. "Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia. Michael was 82. We ask that you respect our privacy at this painful time and thank you for your messages of support and love."
Born in Dublin on Oct. 19, 1940, Gambon made both his film and stage debuts in 1962 and 1965 productions, respectively, of William Shakespeare's "Othello." He was among the first ensemble of actors to join the Royal National Theatre in London, alongside the likes of Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith and Michael Redgrave, to name a few. In 1998, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth.
He would go on to star in films like 2001's "Gosford Park" and 2010's "The King's Speech," both of which earned him Screen Actors Guild Awards for best cast in a motion picture.
Gambon took over the role of Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, beginning with the third "Harry Potter" film following the death of Richard Harris in 2002. Harris played Dumbledore for the first two films and Gambon played him for the remaining six in the series.
On the small screen, Gambon won four British Academy Television Awards for best actor. He won for "The Singing Detective" in 1987, "Wives and Daughters" in 2000, "Longitude" in 2001 and "Perfect Strangers" in 2002. He also earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for "Path to War" in 2002 and for "Emma" in 2010.
Gambon was a much-lauded stage actor and received three Olivier Awards, often considered the British equivalent of the Tony Awards, during his career out of 13 nominations. He won trophies for "A Chorus of Disapproval" in 1985, "A View from the Bridge" in 1987 and for "Man of the Moment" in 1990.
He would go on to make his Broadway debut in 1997 in "Skylight," for which he earned a Tony nomination.
Gambon's "Harry Potter" co-star Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the film series, took to social media to pay tribute to the late actor.
"So sad to hear about Michael," Grint wrote in an Instagram post. "He brought so much warmth and mischief to every day on set. He captivated me as a kid and became a personal role model of mine for finding the fun and eccentricities in life. Sending all my love to his family, Rupert."
Gambon is survived by his longtime wife Anne and their son Fergus.
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Peyton Place: The Novel That Shocked America
First appearing in 1956, Grace Metalious' Peyton Place blew the lid off the hypocritical conformity of small-town, postwar America. Considered the nation’s first “blockbuster” book, the novel both shocked and secretly delighted readers with its portrayal of sex, secrets, scandal, and even adultery, incest, and abortion. Selling 100,000 copies in its first month and at least 12 million more later, the book was so popular that it entered The New York Times Best Seller list a week before it was published. It inspired a film adaptation nominated for nine Oscars and network television’s first primetime soap, which once drew 60 million viewers three nights a week and helped launch the careers of Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal. (x)
Peyton Place was oddly familiar and yet jarringly strange not only because the novel shocked but also because in the minds of many readers the distinction between the imaginary realm of fiction and the reality of their lives was surprisingly effaced—a reality at best vaguely articulated and at times described as quite “unreal,” there being no words to express certain experiences, and thus no way to mark them off as such. Reading Peyton Place provoked an uncanny recognition, a glimpse into a somewhat frightening realm readers knew existed but could express in only a vague, inarticulate way, a taboo landscape, out of the public eye, that spoke to the silent fears and ambiguous emotions fans struggled to describe.
Almost always, their stories begin with subterfuge:
“It was the kind of book mothers would hide under the bed,” a professor of English recalled.
“It was the first time I remember hiding anything from my husband. I kept it in the ice box, behind his beer.”
“I kept it hidden in the basement and used to sneak down there to read it.”
“I always carried it inside a brown paper wrapper. But that became pretty obvious, so my girlfriend and I slipped the dust jacket of Gone With the Wind—they were about the same size—over Peyton Place. But we still got yelled at—my teacher hated Gone With the Wind.”
“I kept it under the mattress. It was the only place close to me at night.”
“Oh, I had this big sock I’d use at Christmas. I’d shove Peyton Place down its long leg when my mother came in to say good night. It looked like a snake had eaten it.”
“In the toilet tank. We had one of those old-fashioned water closets, you know. The top had a little shelf where I hid stuff. Peyton Place sat there next to my Playboy magazines.”
“Under my pillow.”
“In a bag. A very deep bag.”
“Way up on the top shelf. My husband was short so he never much looked up there.”
“Under the lower bunk beds in the dorm. The nuns found it anyway and gave us hell. Then they took it back to the convent. We know they read it ’cause the sister who did the cleaning told us she had found it open on a table and what a disgrace it was to see it there. And I think they knew that we knew ’cause nothing was ever said about it and my folks were never notified, which was totally surprising!”
Metalious’s biographer Emily Toth tells the story of Michael True who while stationed at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, in the late 1950s, “could walk down the center aisle of any barracks and see forty men lying on their bunks, all still in army boots, reading the paperback version of Peyton Place.” (x)
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So What Happened
Nothing I'm about to put in front of you is a work of fiction.
It's about 1999. I'm 7 years old, and my dad is 56. I know, old dad. It's weird, but he's seen a lot.
We're watching X-Files. We always watch FOX, because our old Zenith television with the knobs and the rabbit ears gets two channels- FOX and ABC, and ABC is showing like... whatever ABC showed at night. It wasn't The Simpsons, so neither of us was getting up to mess with the knob.
That meant The Simpsons, probably King of the Hill, maybe some show that didn't last like The PJs or Titus or something, and then your primetime block before the 10 o'clock news.
So it was around 9:45 PM. I'm up late. Always get to stay up later with dad.
I ask him the question any kid might ask their dad during the X-Files.
"Dad, have you ever seen a UFO?"
Now, you ought to understand- my dad was a bullshitter. He got a kick out of yanking people around, and he'd been alive long enough to have a million ways to do it. He would always start up his tall tales with a healthy "welllllllll," and put his hands on his knees and lean in, as if confiding in you, for the rest.
He didn't do that, this time. If anything, it might've been the first time he addressed me like I was a grown adult, which was odd for a child of seven. Used specific names and measurements, even if I didn't have reference for them because, again, I was seven. But it's that distinctiveness, both in how he chose to speak and his tone, that makes me remember.
He said:
"It was before you were born- I was coming home real late one night, driving through Havelock down Highway 70. And I remember I was looking off to the side of the road at some of the old fields coming up ahead, and I noticed I couldn't see any stars overhead. I pulled off to the side of the road and looked out into one of those fallow fields, and noticed I could see stars, but only past the edge of something. I followed that edge with my eyes and realized I was looking at a big, black triangle, with a light at each corner. It didn't make a sound, and it was just sitting idle there."
Now, as a seven year old, who knows my dad is a bullshitter, I was excited to have some new weird thing to say to my friends at school, and really didn't care whether or not it was true. But it did stick with me, partially because of how he said it, and partially because of my own playground parroting.
And for 23 years, that's all it ever was to me. Just a dad story. He passed away in 2011, and it became one of the little things I had left. One reminder of many, along with his old jacket, some harmonicas, and his keys, complete with Food Lion MVP card and AutoZone membership.
By 2022 I had crossed the entire country, from North Carolina to Iowa to Washington, and I was in a Half-Price Books a couple of buses away from Seattle. I had a small fascination with the "Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown" collection because my grandma had some that I used to enjoy, and I was hoping to start my own collection up. (I currently have 26 of 32.)
The man who curated that section of the store talked with me, and I brought up the subject of my dad's sighting story, and told it just as I did in this post. The man gave me a thoughtful "hmm," and then, "before you were born? Well when was that?"
So I told him, 1992. And he nodded, and said, "well, that makes sense, because in the early 90s, there were lots of those black delta UFOs being seen over Belgium."
And this freaked me right out.
Let me just link you to the wikipedia page for the Belgian UFO Wave real quick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave
See that CGI reconstruction? That's something I guarantee my dad never saw in his life, he certainly wasn't keyed into Belgian news- he might watch the occasional episode of Inside Edition or 20/20, but this was a guy who didn't much care for news unless it was from city hall and it was about filling potholes.
And yet he described with that strange, talk-to-my-kid-like-an-adult specificity, something so very similar to what's depicted in CGI there.
So after 23 years of nothing, suddenly this tiny bit of connective tissue to my dad- a guy I had complicated feelings about, who I hated for years, who I presently miss dearly- becomes something I really need to understand.
I don't know what the hell he saw, but if I could find out, that would connect us in a way we never got to be when he was alive.
Since then, I've been trying to learn a lot. I gravitate toward guys like Joe McMoneagle and Bob Lazar- men who are, in many ways, extraordinarily boring. And I don't mean that as an insult- they tell their story in a grounded way, and the story never changes. When prompted to dig for more, they don't make up anything new.
I've been listening to a lot of Art Bell- Coast to Coast AM, Dreamland, Dark Matter, Midnight in the Desert, on my commute back and forth to work. It's an interesting way to hear these stories, because he approached his guests with healthy skepticism, but also gave them room to speak, heard them out, and asked questions that continued the conversation.
Sometimes you can tell something is pure woo. Sometimes you hope something is pure woo. But occasionally you see- and I use this phrase a lot, sorry- connective tissue, between one story and the next. Small things, like descriptors of alien behavior, or ship movement, or parts of theories that line up with other theories.
In an effort not to Pepe Silvia myself, I take great care not to cobble together a unified theory of my own- I'm not the one. I can recognize patterns and draw my own conclusions, but I don't dare for a second suggest that any of it is stone-cold fact. Not just yet.
But I do wanna know what dad saw. What was up there?
(If you frequent any of the tags I put on this post, sorry for the lengthy text wall I'm dropping in there. I'd usually do a readmore, but... well, I want this thing to be seen. I want to talk about it, you know?)
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Every time I see Brendan F promoting and being rewarded for that movie that does not regard fat people like human beings, I think fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit fat suit and also
Fat Suit.
Guy Branum said:
Darren Aronofsky received some criticism about casting Brendan Fraser, and his response was to say that casting an actual very fat person or, God forbid, a very fat gay person would have been impractical because of the risks on set. And I desperately pleaded with Nick Stoller, the director of "Bros," to take out a full-page ad in Variety attesting that he had worked with me for the better part of four months, and I did not explode on set once from fatness. The mental gymnastics required to believe that the most honest way of telling this story was to put Brendan Fraser in a fat suit rests on the sincere belief that very fat people aren't human beings.
We make television about very fat people all the time. TLC is full of it. NBC made it a staple of their primetime lineup. They were putting 600-pound people on a set and making something with them, but it presented those people as animals who needed to be yelled at. And this movie kind of also wants - like, in trying to give it slightly more than being an animal that needs to be yelled at, we have to have sympathy. And part of that sympathy comes from knowing that Brendan Fraser used to be a human being with a waist. And part of the reason that we are tempted to sympathize with him in the movie is because we know he once was hot and now has gone to the dark and terrible place of unhotness
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The Great American Family (GAF) is climbing in its ratings and is quickly becoming the fastest-growing network among viewers.
According to a July press statement released by GAF, the network is "leading all networks in year-over-year viewership increases in the demo for the eighth consecutive month."
"Great American Family finished the quarter as TV's fastest-growing network among Women 25-54, Households and Total Viewers. The network also retained its #1 ranking as the fastest-growing network in 2023 YTD with the largest gains in Total Day and Primetime viewership among both Households and Total Viewers," it reads.
As CBN News reported, the CEO of the Great American Channels company says he is on a mission to make GAC Media the "leader in family television" and they are doing just that.
In an interview on Up Next with John Contratti last year, GAC Media CEO Bill Abbott laid out his plans to provide high-quality original content the whole family can enjoy.
Abbott said, "There's so much need for family content and the market in this space. It's pretty scary, quite frankly, the amount of content that's out there, the vast majority of content is salacious and is not appropriate for any member of the family, really."
The GAC Family network has been hard at work to achieve this goal, airing original Christmas movies during the last Christmas season.
The company has also hired Hallmark actors and actresses to appear in movies and programs for its channels. Candace Cameron Bure, Danica McKellar, Jen Lilley, Daniel Lissing, and Jessica Lowndes are just a few of the performers GAC audiences will recognize.
Last month, Bure thanked fans for their support of the network.
The outspoken Christian is now the chief content officer, actor, and producer at the network where faith and family are the focus.
"I am constantly looking for ways that I can inspire people to live life with purpose," Bure said. "GAC fits my brand perfectly; we share a vision of creating compelling, wholesome content for an audience who wants to watch programming for and with the whole family."
Although the network's Christmas films have contributed to its popular ratings, it is also looking to break into new genres.
The network is set to debut a mystery movie – its second original film since merging with the faith-based streaming platform Pure Flix.
"The Abby Brooks Mysteries" follows Abby Brooks who finds herself engrossed in the mysterious death of her free-spirited neighbor — with Bible verses serving as clues to solve the small-town mystery," CBN's Faithwire reports.
The film will premiere on GAC on July 30.
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Tinie Tempah is fronting a Channel 4 MOTORING show - Is TV this dry?
I'm seeing this man live. Yes, in concert. This year. I am absolutely excited to see him perform because I have been a fan of Tinie Tempah for years now, ever since I was 6 years old and blasting "Frisky" or "Pass Out" as loud as possible.
However, today's news on TVZone is that the "Disturbing London", multi-award winning, chart-topping, international superstar act.... is fronting a Channel 4 show about cars.
Whilst I have no issue with a Top Gear rival from Channel 4... (atleast, im assuming that is the audience they want to try and rival) It is the issue of out of everybody, why Tinie? After Tinie's first few series run of his own.... property show..... that was, also, on Channel 4, wouldn't this be abit jarring? It reminds me of the joke I made in 2021 whilst reviewing Tinie's property programme that it's like if Snoop Dogg started hosting Location Location Location, but let's not put it past them, I don't want to start predicting the future.
Tinie Tempah is a great lad. He's funny, witty and very understanding. Not a single bit of his ego has inflated the man as he is still open and humble... however. After building the rap image, it's tough to see him go from a hardcore rap career, all the way to showing his knowledge about cars and motors, whilst F1 analyst and stunt driver Naomi Schiff looks at the cars from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s making a comeback too. It'll be a tough watch for sure, but I would be very curious on how this all pours out! Tinie, as I've said, is a great host, just abit weird to see the man talk so deeply about cars from a time lonnnngggg ago.
It's made me raise another question too, is TV hosting dying?
As we witness Tinie Tempah seamlessly transition from hardcore rap to vintage car enthusiast, it raises an intriguing question: Is TV hosting on the brink of extinction, desperately gasping for its final breath?
In the golden age of television, we marveled at the art of hosting. The eloquent voices, the impeccable suits, the ability to effortlessly juggle interviews (Davina, we love you for the scandalous "tell us everything" Big Brother UK interviews), and the occasional cheesy joke—these were the qualities we admired in hosts. But now, it seems anyone with a pulse and a Twitter account can call themselves a TV host.
Gone are the days of the erudite and sophisticated master of ceremonies. Instead, we're bombarded with hosts who seem more interested in garnering social media followers than actually, well, hosting. Isn't it abit off how Will Best is now going to be a huge TV face due to his role of Big Brother host? Not to mention, we are now seeing channels comission shows featuring people from social media, admittedly, some YouTubers can pull it off. Daniel Howell's UNTOLD documentary is one you should watch.
But wait, there's more! Brace yourself for the upcoming BBC One show, "The Mundane Chronicles," a riveting program where ordinary people are transformed into hosts overnight. Picture this: a checkout clerk named Steve is thrust into the limelight, hosting a primetime talk show. As he stumbles through interviews, his guests desperately search for an escape route. It's a train wreck you can't look away from, like watching a sloth attempt to perform brain surgery.
If that's not bizarre enough, let's delve into the realm of reality TV. In "Survival of the Fluffiest," contestants compete in a battle of wits and fur as they try to outwit each other in a cuddly showdown. Hosted by an animatronic teddy bear, this show blurs the line between entertainment and sheer lunacy. But hey, who needs substance when you can have stuffed animals battling it out for the crown? Why are you tuning out? No, you don't get it! Listen, steam all the full boxset and the spinoff and the gossip show for free on Channel 4! Stream it first, why aren't you STREAMING?
So, as Tinie Tempah delves into the world of vintage cars, we can't help but wonder: Is TV hosting a dying art? With hosts more interested in viral moments than meaningful conversations, perhaps it's time to bid adieu to the days of genuine talent and welcome the era of unfiltered mediocrity. No more iconic faces in the future, but more random, one-hit wonder TikTokers. After all, who needs a skilled host when you can have a YouTube sensation teaching us how to fold socks?
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In 1965 I was making my first documentary for television. I once titled it Music Makers of the Blue Ridge but these days I title it Bluegrass Roots. I was 23 years old and I was headed to the mountains of North Carolina, to Asheville, to meet with and film 82 year old Bascom Lamar Lunsford. I had written him a letter asking if I could accompany him as he sought talent for his great music and clog dance festival - the Asheville Mountain music Festival which had been going on since 1929! I spent three weeks shooting this film with Bascom and his wife Freda. I was filming with a 16 mm sound camera and a friend carrying a Nagra audio recorder. Bascom told me that he was going to invite a clog dance group to his house In South Turkey Creek North Carolina for a dance demonstration. He said he would roll up the rug in his living room so we could hear the feet as they clogged on the wooden floor. And so this scene happened and I absolutely loved filming it. Although my camera rig was 49 pounds with a battery, I danced with the dancers with glee and recorded one of the best scenes that I have ever filmed. Clog dancing at its best. Local folk. Just having fun. And the musicians? The best in bluegrass or mountain if you want to call it that or old timey if you want to call it that. The musicians included Obray Ramsey and Bascom's relative Ray Lunsford. In one moment you can see me & my camera in the mirror filming the scene. After all these years I still love Mountain music and dance. I have been in touch with several of the performers and some are still alive and some are still dancing in the mountains of North Carolina – the Appalachian mountains – THE center as far as I'm concerned, of spectacular bluegrass and country music. If you have enjoyed watching this clip, please click the super thanks button below the video screen to the right side. It will help keep me going sharing more of my film clips with you. The one hour film ran in the primetime in 1965 and got the cover i've TV Guide with a fabulous review. Today it is considered a classic and I am proud that so many subscribers and others have chosen to watch it – many more than once. Thank you Bascom Lamar Lunsford and all those who appeared with him in my film.
David Hoffman, filmmaker
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Do u rly think Jesse wanted to leave?
I say this kindly, but we are never going to know if/who/why Jesse wanted to leave. He's a real person with real thoughts, feelings, and emotions. We feel like we know who Jesse is- and to an extent we do-but we see it through a lens that he choses to share with us via social media, interviews, and more. There's so much more to the man that we know. Now, I'm not saying he isn't genuine, a kind person, etc. Because I whole heartedly believe all the things we see and hear about him, my point in making this statement, is no one personally knows him. Contracts and the TV industry are also incredibly nuanced, more so than we as fans will ever be privy to knowing.
All of that being said- I don't know if he wanted to leave. It's plainly obvious that he loves the show, the cast, and the crew. He wouldn't have had to spend a decade working there if that weren't the case.
Sometimes your time just runs out on a journey. You can have the best of times, the worst of times, and just... Need to move on. Could something have happened with the contract? Yes, sure. It totally could have. We are going to drive ourselves crazy trying to figure out what actually happened when in reality we are never going to know what happened.
All I can say is that I am grateful. I am grateful for ten years of Jay Halstead. It's been an honor and a privilege to watch Jesse portray Jay for this long. Jay's character development from the pilot to where he is today is one of the best TV characters I have seen on primetime television. I am thankful they aren't killing him, so the door is left open for the opportunity for Jay to come back in some capacity.
And as a fan, I am grateful to Jesse. Ten years is a long, well done run. For anyone. It's not for the faint of heart, and you can tell he poured his blood, sweat, and tears into that show. I'm so thankful he loved and believed in the character and show enough to stick around that long. Mostly, I hope he's happy- at the end of ALL of this, I just want Jesse to be happy. I'll probably follow whatever he does next, so if that is back to old stomping grounds or not, I'll be there ready with open arms.
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i remembered i A) was curious and B) don't actually like talking out of my ass, so i went and looked it up, and i'm right -- during the day, the cw's schedule is entirely judge shows and "local/various", which means, i assume, infomercials, game shows, and maybe local news?
and yeah so that is both going to drive the average viewer (and nielsen box haver) age way way up, and also assumes that that age is already up, because if they thought younger people were watching, they'd put on things that younger people are known to like. except that there is no longer a "teen daytime demographic" (as much as there ever was -- disney channel aside, even nickelodeon had nick jr during the day, because older kids were assumed to be in school). teens like dramas, because teens are dramatic, and that's primetime material.
even commercials, even during things like riverdale, are for like. diapers. so yeah at least 25-35 if not 35-50 age range is the target. and that's in the evening, when a show for younger people is on. during the day, like i said, it's life alert pendants, pharmaceuticals, and class action lawsuits.
and of course right now even their primetime spots aren't great, because no one wants to put their show on a dying network, which again drives viewership to only the daytime shows, which drives the average age up.
but ALSO i think one thing they're not thinking about, that nielsen boxes are not capable of thinking about, is that younger people are simply not watching the big television box anymore, and definitely not watching "channels" with predetermined, scheduled programming. that would be like restricting yourself to cassettes where you have to listen to the songs in order. if the big box is used, it's another computer screen that streams. we had to go through so much bullshit to get our over-air antenna hooked up i swear to god
and of course we all know all this, because we are 58 years old, but i just wanted to validate my expectations and lay out all my thoughts. mr/ms/mx cw, if you're reading this -- because small untagged riverdale blogs are of course your primary information-gathering resource -- the young people are still here. they're literally here, on tumblr (not twitter or ig just trust me dude i checked there's no need to look there) and they love your shows so so bad. get good at memes (like seriously? nothing exceptional between "epic highs and lows" and "it's not queerbaiting"? slackers) and streams and they will give you eyeballs to sell to better advertisers i swear to you
#long post#unnecessary post#demographics and marketing are fascinating to me the same way the occult is though so. sorry lmao
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