| re: from the Dramatists Guild of America - an open letter to Leslie Moonves/CBS re Tony Award broadcast | |
| Posted by: OldTheaterGuy 12:36 pm EDT 06/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: from the Dramatists Guild of America - an open letter to Leslie Moonves/CBS re Tony Award broadcast - bobby2 02:28 am EDT 06/14/18 | |
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| Discussions like this spring up every year. No one wants to deal with reality (including me — I’d love to see everything everyone here has mentioned). But there are hard facts: there is considerably less time for the show than decades ago because there is more commercial time in each hour; they can not go over the three hour mark because local channels will simply switch over to their news broadcasts; the television audience size is minute compared to the Oscars and the Emmys and we’re lucky to have three hours on the air; CBS controls the show much more than back in the Alex Cohen days and their focus is strictly on the ratings (I assure you, if they could have promoted it as “watch a famous movie star swear at the president “, they would have; it wasn’t the Guild’s fault that the Harry Potter producers grabbed the mic and wouldn’t let and considered the playwright an afterthought; everyone watching is going to like different things—I found the Springsteen sequence a total bore while others found it the emotional highlight of the evening; Summer got a spot because it’s producers paid a whole lot of money which was used for good things like flying the Parkland kids to NYC. And, the show is designed to be a commercial for shows playing and soon touring; if they could eliminate all the on air awards, the producers would be very happy. | |
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