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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 6, 2022 10:25:05 GMT -5
I don't think The Office did well during its initial syndication run in 2009. My local station and TBS took it off schedule after 2 or 3 years, the length of the contract I suppose. But then it got on Netflix, was very easy to binge, people started to make memes from it and it got a second life in the pop culture.
Modern Family also had lower ratings in its syndication with USA and it looks like its nostly on fellow NBC Universal channel E!.
I also believe Seinfeld was one of the first shows to put its entire library for streaming with Hulu in 2015. At the time there was talk whether it was actually worth that much. 6 years later Netflix pays even more for Seinfeld series.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 7, 2022 7:33:44 GMT -5
Modern Family also had lower ratings in its syndication with USA and it looks like its nostly on fellow NBC Universal channel E!. The problem with Modern Family's deal is that they were expecting Big Bang Theory type numbers, so they gave it a BBT like deal. It's underperformed, they had way too high of expectations thanks to BBT being a ratings juggernaut, and still being a ratings juggernaut. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 7, 2022 7:38:59 GMT -5
Here's an example from the world of animation: Superfriends. It did air in syndication in the early to mid-80s (they would air the one hour first season eps split in two on Monday and Tuesday, the 30 minute segment of All New Superfriends Hour on Wednesday, the other shorts on Thursday, and Challenge on Fridays), but it was gone by the mid-80s once all the big 80s toy-based shows took over syndication. They didnt even get to the Worlds Greatest, Super Powers Team or Galactic Guardians years, those wouldnt be seen again until Cartoon Network. I actually remembered seeing what you described, except the ANSFH elements were replaced with the '78 core team adventures. Also, I would guess Scooby-Doo, which I think also was introduced onto syndication at the time (1983?), had a similar week. Two days devoted to a New Scooby Movies episode, then the rest was some combo (I forget) of Where Are You? and The Scooby Doo Show eps. |
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 7, 2022 8:00:38 GMT -5
Here's a big one: anything reality tv, specifically reality competition shows where each season has a group of contestants competing for one prize. Those almost never make it to syndicated tv. Even long before the current days of where you could easily throw reality seasons on a streaming service and the only real way to binge a season of something would be in marathon form on a cable channel. Still, older seasons of Survivor only got a few seasons aired on Outdoor Life Network (appropriately enough) before disappearing completely. Ditto Amazing Race on Travel Channel (also appropriate. In fact, I was hoping for Big Brother to complete the trifecta and air old seasons on HGTV.)
American Idol is more complicated because of all the music rights mumbo jumbo, but considering how insanely popular it was, not much ever materialized in terms of reruns. They did have a syndicated retrospective show called "American Idol Rewind" that showed clips of older seasons and even spoke with some contestants years after they were on, but even that faded pretty quickly.
The only reality shows to have any mileage on cable syndication are America's Next Top Model, which enjoyed several years of marathon seasons airing on VH1/Oxygen/Bravo, as well as Bravo's original reality shows often filling up their own weekday schedules.
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