Broadcasters Worry About 'Zero TV' Homes

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18. It's a bleak world out there for the TV industry

Look at the networks right now. They keep ordering the same shows, same reality shows, same game shows over and over again and think they will get better results. Look at NBC tonight for instance - The Voice (a little different, but basically American Idol with better judges) and Ready for Love (it's the Bachelor Eva Longoria - you may think it's new, but it's The Bachelor). Netowrk TV is always looking for the next "Lost" or "Friends" instead of trying to find the next great show that is different than these shows. Lost was one of those shows that all of a sudden everyone wanted to recreate. Look at Once Upon a Time, I love that show, but next season there were will be 2 copycats of that show - NBC has an Alice in Wonderland and so does ABC. Or Mad Men - 2 years ago there were 2 "period" shows on the air to try and capture the Mad Men audience - Playboy Club (failed) and Pan Am (also failed). When the nets think outside the box they score hits. Since I work at a NBC affiliate I will bitch about them the most. Over the past 4 years we have had the same show in 3 different variations - My Own Worst Enemy, Awake & Do No Harm (2 episodes and it was gone this year). So you made a terrible Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde show in 2008 and thought hey why not make 2 more. It boggles the mind sometimes!