After watching Pilot Week, I was thinking what FTA commercial TV might look like if it relied on multiple different shows across the week like we’ve just seen instead of stripped multi-night formats that now seen to get all the resources. I’m not sure that viewer numbers would be higher but I think a broader cross section of people would potentially tune across a week due to a broader range of offerings.
Would it, however, be as commercially attractive? There are advantages of scale in production and even promotion (it’s probably easier to promote one show that’s on 4 nights than 4 separate shows) of stripped formats which in many cases leads to fairly high quality production values.
Watched Kinne also. Feels like a late night program (10.30 in the better days but) probably a 9.30 or 10pm timeslot for 30 minutes a week. I think that could work in a more fuller schedule.
I saw a photo of Delta in a Home Hardware store last week and was dumbfounded. EDIT: from Home Hardware’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BmPlw2_AeVc/
Now I know why she was there. I and my fellow Delta fans are looking forward to it.
This show reminds me of something I used to watch 20 years ago on a Saturday night. If a head on a stick pops up I think a certain former Gold Logie winner might need to consult his lawyers.
Your post makes me wonder what exactly you were expecting that could be done live? I think it is fair Sat night fare. Might catch on over time as a 60 minute show noting it is slightly more adult in nature as an M-rated program and after 40 minutes I can see why it is M.
Seeing the M rating, I also now understand why it is still at 7.30 in SA and WA.
Something a little more fresh and original than the stale old stunts that were pulled on Hey Hey a couple of decades ago. A guest or two worthy of an interview.
I’m enjoying it. Seems to have changed from it’s original premise of young stars singing classics and legends singing new stuff. Ditched for a straight-forward Rove Live type show.
