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luvs2spooge92 t1_j9drw45 wrote

Reply to comment by SilverSuferNorr in Paramount’s $1.5 Billion Write-Down Is the Bill for Peak TV Coming Due | Analysis by flowerhoney10

What you’re seeing is the slow killing Showtime to appease Viacom legacy brands. Last fall, Showtime’s CEO of 15 years left. After that they announced MTV Networks people would take over. Then they pivoted saying the Pluto CEO will take over. Then earlier this week, lots of Showtime execs left while a ton of people at the network were laid off. Viacom has a history of acquiring and destroying. Paramount keeps stumbling into money makers like Top Gun and Yellowstone so they’re just going to keep trying to do super broad stuff without really understanding why those things worked. They might stay alive but it will be through luck and not good decisions or talent.

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NeoNoireWerewolf t1_j9dwese wrote

Even the legacy brands are struggling. They moved RuPaul’s Drag Race from VH1 over to MTV hoping that it might get some people to actually watch MTV for the first time in a decade.

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a4techkeyboard t1_j9em197 wrote

Then MTV hilariously cut its runtime, created a new program they hoped to promote to the demo, so they put it between RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race Untucked.

This made it so the new show can be easily seen as to blame for stealing Drag Race's runtime, maybe making people want to watch it even less when some of its cast already made some Drag Race fans not eager to watch it.

So... made Drag Race shorter and noticeably missing segments, made people have to wait for Untucked, put a person of questionable popularity among the audience in said show, and made the show look completely to blame.

And then nobody wanted to hate watch.

So... that was a great move on MTV's part.

(Also, made a Teen Wolf movie without writing a script first, and without one of the core characters.)

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luvs2spooge92 t1_j9dwa6t wrote

It would be nice if niche things made a comeback from these huge conglomerates but unfortunately I think this will be the tactic. Shallow, broad content until everyone buys each other out.

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