Sunday, October 30, 2005

What should cancelled TV shows do??

Now days, TV shows get cancelled left and right. Some of them are just terrible and you sometimes gotta wonder how that shit got on TV. While others are great shows, but they don't get a chance to shine because of the network or a shitty time slot.

There are different things you can do after you get cancelled. Lets take a look at Jump Cuts. A great show that shows many different segments from independent film makers. I tuned into Comedy Central one night and I was hooked. Yet, only four episodes were produced in it's entire run!! Jump Cuts never had a stable time slot for new or old episodes. What is Jump Cuts doing?? The show is getting re-hashed by the same network that cancelled it, Comedy Central, and put on their Broadband Network called Motherload.

Another show that was cancelled is Stankervision. The show airs on MTV 2 part of their Sic Em' Friday block. The show brought in some very good ratings and helped MTV 2 to recieve their highest third quarter rating ever! It should have been renewed for a second season...but it wasn't. No one knows why but luckly, they had a show before Stankervision called The DAMN! Show. In fact, The DAMN! Show is supposed to be better than Stankervision. The DAMN! Show is being distributed on DVD.

Right now, tv shows on television network is a very dangerous place to be. That's why I think that IPTV is the way to go. What is IPTV?? To put it in simple terms, its TV downloaded from the internet. This is why instead of going to PBS for a time slot, The Triangle is distributing our TV show over the internet. We don't have to worry about ratings, or a fear of being cancelled. All we have to worry about is putting the shit out on time. There is no advertising, so you don't have to worry about fast forwarding or anything. Internet based TV is the way to go now that BitTorrent is getting popular. You could easily distribute your show and not worry about anything. It's simple and hopefully I'll be able to prove that to you when we get our first episode up in 2006.

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