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Questions about 21
Robert Hutchinson:
[quote name=\'bttritle\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 11:33 PM\']Regardless of why the show didn't work, it's not the reason it was cancelled. TwentyOne met all the criteria for a successful show at the time it aired. It revitalized a Monday night line up, it was a top twenty show on more than one occasion, and it was obvious that people were watching DESPITE the number of changes the made to the payout format.
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Yes, but how much money was all that worth to NBC? Because 21 was not a low-budget show.
--- Quote ---It was cancelled because NBC didn't want to recognize that a large portion of the population wanted to watch it.
--- End quote ---
Replace \"didn't want\" with \"failed\" and I might buy it. Maybe.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 10:54 PM\'] Keep in mind he won a large sum of money from this show... [/quote]
Which has nothing to do with his excellent insight into the temprement of the country in the 50's and how it might have affected the scandals.
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Sep 22 2003, 12:59 AM\'] [quote name=\'bttritle\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 11:33 PM\']Regardless of why the show didn't work, it's not the reason it was cancelled. TwentyOne met all the criteria for a successful show at the time it aired. It revitalized a Monday night line up, it was a top twenty show on more than one occasion, and it was obvious that people were watching DESPITE the number of changes the made to the payout format.
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Yes, but how much money was all that worth to NBC? Because 21 was not a low-budget show.
--- Quote ---It was cancelled because NBC didn't want to recognize that a large portion of the population wanted to watch it.
--- End quote ---
Replace "didn't want" with "failed" and I might buy it. Maybe. [/quote]
To be honest, I thought NBC cancelled it because the Top 20 ratings didn't satisfy them; that they wanted to be in the same league as Millionaire?
Ian Wallis:
I saved tapes of about 8 episodes from when it originally ran, which I don't think I've watched since then. I tuned into a few hours of the marathon last night and thoroughly enjoyed it - despite the \"dumbed down\" factor, I thought it was a good show and deserved a longer life.
I had one thought while watching this - if GSN is in the need for more original programming, maybe they should give this one a shot (for lower stakes, of course).
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Sep 22 2003, 08:33 AM\']
I had one thought while watching this - if GSN is in the need for more original programming, maybe they should give this one a shot (for lower stakes, of course). [/quote]
Keep in mind that GSN was fairly close to a deal for a lowered stakes revival of Greed last year, but the deal fell through. I think resurrecting Syndie Weakest Link(with George Gray as host preferably) would be a better idea, as they wouldn't have to lower the payouts much if at all(payouts on Syndie Link were often less than one-day totals on WHammy!)
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