# US Television **URL:** \ **Category:** Subscription and International\ **Created:** [January 8, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563 "2016-01-08T12:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 99
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2003 "2023-07-13T22:33:36Z")
The actors strike, which starts at 5pm AEST today, means most TV and movie productions in the US, Canada, and many parts of Europe will grind to a halt. Even if the dispute is resolved soon, there will be delays of several months for deliveries of new episodes of US dramas and comedies to broadcasters around the world. In Australia, Foxtel, Stan and Paramount+ will be the worst hit because they are heavily reliant on American scripted shows. 10 will also be affected as it depends on dramas such as NCIS and FBI franchises, CSI: Vegas and Law & Order: SVU to fill its post-8.30pm timeslots several times a week. It will be interesting to see if 10 has any alternate plans for the final two months of 2023 ratings survey period. ---
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2004 "2023-07-13T22:37:30Z")
Repeats. ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2005 "2023-07-14T00:08:44Z")
Local networks are going to be very very happy! ---
**Author:** ![MrJ](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mrj/32/85112_2.png) [@MrJ](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/MrJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2006 "2023-07-14T02:47:31Z")
I don’t know the details well enough, but do the writers and actors really have the leverage? A world of AI writing and acting must be looking pretty good to producers right now, humans are looking difficult. And with the rising interest rates, producers are probably looking for an excuse to invest less and go into a hibernation anyway. ---
**Author:** ![bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bacco007/32/99038_2.png) [@bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bacco007)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2007 "2023-07-14T08:12:39Z")
> [@MrJ](#): > > I don’t know the details well enough, but do the writers and actors really have the leverage? It will start to hurt the bottom lines of media companies fairly soon (if it hasn’t already), especially television/streamers who are going to have to try and find content to fill the considerable gaps in their forward scheduling. That will give some leverage to try and thrash out a series of deals. Having both writers and actors on strike will make it incredibly difficult to make new content outside of a couple of genres like non-scripted reality in the US (and probably now wider). > [@MrJ](#): > > A world of AI writing and acting must be looking pretty good to producers right now, humans are looking difficult. The current generation of AI is probably not capable of producing decent quality content - but that has the potential to change rapidly, making it a really critical time to put guardrails in place around how the technology can be used in the industry. > [@MrJ](#): > > And with the rising interest rates, producers are probably looking for an excuse to invest less and go into a hibernation anyway. We’ve seen this just seems to shift the focus to cheaper countries - Australia has been a beneficiary of this in the past where a strong exchange rate combined with incentives from Governments keenly interested in attracting the industry to the country (and state) can make it cost-effective to shift production locations. ---
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2008 "2023-07-17T22:32:24Z")
Revised schedule in response to the writers and actors being on strike. ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/a/2/c/a2c8bf67b53e46b35c8ea9edc91f0afe8f681104.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![LiamP](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/liamp/32/300932_2.png) [@LiamP](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/LiamP)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2009 "2023-07-17T23:27:05Z")
This is depressing. ---
**Author:** ![cmo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@cmo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/cmo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2010 "2023-07-18T04:33:31Z")
They’ll have to sensor the shit out of Yellowstone. ---
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2012 "2023-07-19T23:01:42Z")
> **[‘Magnum P.I’ Moves To Fall On NBC; Network Stays In Scripted As ‘Quantum...](https://deadline.com/2023/07/nbc-fall-schedule-magnum-pi-quantum-leap-found-the-irrational-1235441741/)** > > NBC is keeping broadcast’s scripted hopes alive. The network will have a slew of original scripted dramas on the air in the fall as part of a slightly revised schedule thanks to some forward planni… ---
**Author:** ![KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/KICK-IT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2013 "2023-07-20T08:25:06Z")
Disney & Bob making noise about selling ABC, linear is all but dead in the US _Should Iger sell ABC and FX, as he dangled in Sun Valley? The reality is that audiences have been trained to expect linear and Pay TV to get worse as prices go up. Virtual TV providers, like YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV, keep getting more expensive while the content offered on those platforms moves to streaming. Trying to pivot interest back to linear at this point doesn’t work, and therefore arguing it still has value becomes much, much more difficult. Just look at what happened to newspapers and digital media over the past 20 years, as revenue went down and private equity came in._ _Perhaps the most obvious cautionary tale is ABC News. As my colleague **Dylan Byers** recently pointed out, **Robin** **Roberts** , **GeorgeStephanopoulos** and **Michael** **Strahan** are being paid a combined $75 million a year to work within a model of news that is in decline. As I noted in a recent piece, news is becoming more passive, more intimate, and more micro-community based. There are news organizations that appeal to specific audiences, and journalists that speak to specific industries. (Puck is a case in point.)_ _This doesn’t mean macro news organizations are going away, but they’re morphing into larger lifestyle brands (The New York Times ) or developing new products to increase participation amongst audiences (Twitch). The type of news that exists in Pay TV will inevitably disappear with the audience watching it (Baby Boomers and older Gen X). The need for global and local news doesn’t go away, but the approach and distribution changes._ _Disney executives should sell networks like ABC, even at a potentially humbling loss, before it gets much worse. In the most recent quarter, Disney saw its linear networks revenue decrease by 7 percent while its operating income dropped a whopping 35 percent. The silver lining, as Iger presumably knows, is that writing down losses demonstrates action and vision to Wall Street. (This is one reason why **David Zaslav** took a hammer to CNN+ mere weeks into its life.)_ _FX, however, is a more complicated story. It offers slightly more differentiated content than general ABC or Freeform. But is owning FX more valuable to Disney’s future D.T.C. business than selling it and re-investing the cash into individual projects for D+? It’s a question without a clear answer. FX content has exclusively streamed on Hulu for more than a year now, but Hulu isn’t seeing the level of growth each quarter to make it stand out as a differentiated partner, even with hits like The Bear ._ _Divesting the content from the distribution channel, if possible under the terms of any potential sale, would be crucial for Disney to keep its prestige brand. Rolling it into Hulu exclusively would hurt in the short term but keep the brand active and forward thinking in the long term. Think Showtime, but with more attention on its series. Recall that HBO, the crème de la crème of these networks, hit a subscriber ceiling. That’s why being bundled with cable was crucial to HBO. It was always a channel on top of everything else—the cherry on top—and that’s how it exists now within Max._ _FX plays a similar role within Hulu and, especially as the company is determining what content to license and what to keep exclusive on its platform. FX’s content is an example of what’s worth keeping, even if the channel isn’t._ ---
**Author:** ![bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bacco007/32/99038_2.png) [@bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bacco007)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2014 "2023-07-20T08:49:14Z")
> [@KICK-IT](#): > > Disney & Bob making noise about selling ABC, linear is all but dead in the US Anything that’s not tied down seems to allegedly be up for sale at Disney at the moment - as if they are trying to work out how to fund the [$5 to 9 billion acquisition of the remainder of Hulu from Comcast](https://fortune.com/2023/07/15/disney-comcast-hulu-deal-strategy-bob-iger-turnaround-plan/). It’s got a real vibe that someone finally twigged that Disney (especially now it’s bought 21CF) has all this legacy baggage it needs to shed. ---
**Author:** ![KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/KICK-IT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2015 "2023-07-20T09:28:19Z")
totally agree ---
**Author:** ![greenpea](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@greenpea](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/greenpea)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2016 "2023-07-20T10:44:06Z")
Disney, in essence, finds itself entangled in its own creation of a complex situation. Through the acquisition of 21st Century Fox and relinquishing BSkyB to Comcast, they seem to have inadvertently woven a tangled web. One can speculate that Disney intended to include Sky as a crucial component in the deal, potentially using it as a platform to launch Disney+ on a grander scale. Meanwhile, their aim may have been to maintain global operations for services like Disney Channel and National Geographic, ensuring their continued presence worldwide. ---
**Author:** ![KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@KICK-IT](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/KICK-IT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2017 "2023-07-20T11:42:02Z")
> [@KICK-IT](#): > > _Perhaps the most obvious cautionary tale is ABC News. As my colleague **Dylan Byers** recently pointed out, **Robin** **Roberts** , **GeorgeStephanopoulos** and **Michael** **Strahan** are being paid a combined $75 million a year to work within a model of news that is in decline. As I noted in a recent piece, news is becoming more passive, more intimate, and more micro-community based. There are news organizations that appeal to specific audiences, and journalists that speak to specific industries. (Puck is a case in point.)_ > > _This doesn’t mean macro news organizations are going away, but they’re morphing into larger lifestyle brands (The New York Times ) or developing new products to increase participation amongst audiences (Twitch)._ This is key to me. The grand salaries of FTA personalities start to become a massive overhead in a declining ecosystem. 9 News and 7 News and even ABC News will have to morph to become lifestyle brands - and they will have to launch onto streaming platforms in the near future as FTA auds continue to fall off a cliff - it wont make sense to fund a news operation at $100m+ a year that is aimed at an ever aging ever dwindling FTA audience They need to adapt their product and start placing it off linear and on streaming “always on” formats and platforms. Or they risk being obsolete in 20 years ---
**Author:** ![DDN](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/ddn/32/443648_2.png) [@DDN](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/DDN)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2018 "2023-07-20T13:35:23Z")
Would be interesting to see what type of company would purchase ABC, especially if Disney holds onto the production arm. Also to note ABC is headquartered within Disney’s Burbank facility, so it would be a large logistical change if Disney kicks them out after a potential sale. ---
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2019 "2023-07-21T00:15:41Z")
> **[South Park: The AI episode | TV Tonight](https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/07/south-park-the-ai-episode.html)** > > 11 minutes of fake-South Park, with script, vision, voices and editing generated by AI is released online. ---
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2020 "2023-07-26T10:43:40Z")
> **[Australia’s WTFN partners with US firm Spiegelworld to visit Circus Town](https://www.c21media.net/news/australias-wtfn-partners-with-us-entertainment-company-spiegelworld-to-visit-circus-town/)** > > Australian producer WTFN has partnered with US-based modern circus entertainment company Spiegelworld to develop a TV series and a weekly digital series for social media, both called Circus Town. * * * > **[‘Entertainment Tonight’ Undergoes Layoffs](https://deadline.com/2023/07/entertainment-tonight-layoffs-1235449018/)** > > EXCLUSIVE: There has been a round of layoffs at the daily syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight. About 10% of the staff at the CBS Media Ventures program were affected, source… ---
**Author:** ![Tejas57](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tejas57/32/70710_2.png) [@Tejas57](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tejas57)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2021 "2023-07-28T08:37:54Z")
> **[Tina Fey is 'being courted to take over Saturday Night Live'](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12346189/amp/Tina-Fey-courted-Saturday-Night-Live-Lorne-Michaels-despite-saying-no-plans-retire-year-ago.html)** > > Tina Fey, 53, is rumored to be making her way back to 30 Rock to take over Saturday Night Live, despite the creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, 78, insisting he has no plans to retire. ---
**Author:** ![WestKnight](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/westknight/32/321147_2.png) [@WestKnight](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/WestKnight)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2022 "2023-07-28T14:29:03Z")
The Emmy this year will be (expectedly) postponed, amidst writers and actors’ strike: > **[Emmys Vendors Have Been Officially Informed That the Telecast Is Moving Out...](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/emmys-airdate-actors-writers-strike-1235681067/)** > > Vendors for the 75th Primetime Emmys have been told that the ceremony will not air on September 18 — the first time that there has been official word that the date has been pushed, Variety has lear… ---
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563/2023 "2023-08-01T14:45:23Z")
> **[Get ready for a SpongeBob and slime Super Bowl. CBS and Nickelodeon team up...](https://www.cbs17.com/sports/ap-get-ready-for-a-spongebob-and-slime-super-bowl-cbs-and-nickelodeon-team-up-for-nfls-biggest-game/)** > > SpongeBob and Slimetime are coming to the Super Bowl. The NFL and CBS Sports announced Tuesday that this season’s Super Bowl will have a kids-centric presentation on Nickelodeon, marking the … Announcement video > .[@Nickelodeon](https://twitter.com/Nickelodeon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and [@cbssports](https://twitter.com/CBSSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) are joining forces to present a slime-filled telecast of Super Bowl LVIII specially for kids and families 🏈 [@nateburleson](https://twitter.com/nateburleson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) will be back in the booth to call the first-ever [#SuperBowl](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperBowl?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) alternate telecast, exclusively on Nickelodeon. [pic.twitter.com/30aRYWySwL](https://t.co/30aRYWySwL) > > — CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) [August 1, 2023](https://twitter.com/CBSMornings/status/1686355739491569665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563.md?page=98) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-television/563.md?page=100)