http://www.mediazulu.com/node/108 Comments for " Cable is the New Broadcast TV" en http://www.mediazulu.com/node/108#comment-66 <p>Max, won't get to call into Howie tonight, but can you talk about how some of these new shows are doing on cable. I mean I think FX has been putting out some very good TV for a few years (The Shield, Rescue Me, Nip Tuck and Sunny). Nobody in their right mind subscribes to a movie service for the movies. HBO original stuff has been great (Especially The Wire and Rome). Even some of the BBC America stuff has been terrific. The Office is the obvious one, but Life on Mars is a pretty good series. </p> <p>TBS's 10 Items is the only sit-com other than Sunny that I can actually watch.</p> <p>Now AMC is in the game with Breaking Bad. I mean the show couldn't have cost much to produce, and all the sudden I have to add AMC back into my Dish list of networks I will watch. I have friends who actually buy a lot of these shows from iTunes and watch on their computers.</p> <p>Anyway, what's the upside and downside of this stuff for the cable outlets?</p> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:39:35 -0500 Big Fat Dave comment 66 at http://www.mediazulu.com http://www.mediazulu.com/node/108 <p>Tuner's suite of cable networks -- TNT, TBS and the outfit formerly known as CourtTV truTV have decided to have an upfront gala on May 14. Notably, the Turner event comes right smack in the middle of when the Big Four through their big presentations for advertisers, hoping that boatloads of jumbo shrimp and premium booze will get Madison Avenue to fork over hundreds of millions of bucks on a bunch of new shows, most of which will fail. NBCU chairman Jeff Zucker has said these events are largely waste of money and used the air cover of the writers strike to say the Peacock Network would probably scale back its participation in these splashy affairs. But I think the Turner folks have the right idea. It's showbiz after all and most media buyers like the facade of being part of it, gorging on fillet mignon, swilling cocktails and getting their pictures taken with the latest hunks and hunkettes. It makes handing over all that cash all that much easier.</p> http://www.mediazulu.com/node/108#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:57:34 -0500 J. Max Robins 108 at http://www.mediazulu.com