NBC Gets Real--More Reality, More Game Shows
NBC’s cost cutting strategies include more game shows and reality programming, according to Bob Wright in the LA Times. Scripted shows, like Studio 60, which costs $2.7 million an episode and delivered half the audience as Heroes,(which costs about the same, but is produced by another arm of the empire, NBC Universal Television Studio) don’t seem to be pulling their weight.
Times writers Maria Elena Fernandez and Meg James bring up a juicy if unsourced point:
Some NBC Universal executives privately regard the company’s restructuring plan–dubbed NBCU 2.0–as
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