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Recent developments thru NATPE:

 

DailyMailTV Renewed: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110334/daily-mail-tv-renewed-for-season-2

ID's True Crime Files joins Syndie: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110375/true-crime-files-joins-syndication-in-fall

The Real renewed thru 2020: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110070/the-real-renewed-through-2020 (not that surprised)

Women on the Move debuts Fall 2018: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110245/sewee-entertainment-on-the-move-in-2018

Funny You Should Ask reupped through '21: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110277/funny-you-should-ask-reupped-through-202021

Pickler + Ben renewed for Season 2: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110395/pickler--ben-renewed-for-a-second-season (Ben Aaron does double duty with WNBC's New York Live, Kellie Pickler is a legit TV star/Idol success under the radar)

Chicago PD hits syndie: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110402/chicago-pd-syndie-clearances-hit-75 (Editor's note: surprised Chicago Fire wasn't the 1st of franchise to be syndie'd, although somewhere i've read it was to be slated)

Page Six TV renewed: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110409/fox-television-stations-renew-page-six-tv (no surprise)

Millionaire + Right This Minute renewed: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110441/millionaire-right-this-minute-renewed (put away your soap opera reboot fantasies, please. They're here to stay for now.)

(And today as I write...) Steve Harvey's 'Steve' talk show renewed, despite challenges: http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/steve-harvey-talk-show-renewed-season-2-img-1202666653/

 

Here's one perspective on the just concluded NATPE, basically doldrums for the state of syndie: http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/steve-harvey-talk-show-renewed-season-2-img-1202666653/ (Note: although not officially, the writer in part detailed how there's no plan by NBCU to replace the failed 'harry' if any. That said...)

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WLVI's entire daytime lineup are trash talkers: Wilkos/Maury/Jerry x2, Robert Irvine, and a third Maury. Knowing how Sunbeam's take towards syndication there isn't much that can replace them out there.

 

Just like KQCA. Bill Cunningham and robert irvine comes on KMAX still. Wilkos on the other hand is on KTXL which is odd since the show is NBCU produced but shown on a tribune station. theres also the Judge shows on KOVR, KMAX and KTXL. oh and did i mention there are 4 COURT SHOWS on KTXL?

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Funny You Should Ask reupped through '21: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110277/funny-you-should-ask-reupped-through-202021

Millionaire + Right This Minute renewed: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110441/millionaire-right-this-minute-renewed (put away your soap opera reboot fantasies, please. They're here to stay for now.)

 

I'm not surprised at Funny You Should Ask being renewed, it's just Byron Allen filler junk. At least Bob Boden's got steady work again.

 

And as for the latter two, I'm not hoping for soap opera revivals. I'm wanting game show revivals- I'm still holding out hope that someone at ABC gets it in their heads to bring back Split Second and The Big Showdown. The two would make an awesome hour of solid quizzing and a good counterpunch towards anything else. Millionaire is in zombie mode nowadays and RightThisMinute is just filler. (Side note: ABC aired a game show in 1968 called Funny You Should Ask from Heatter-Quigley, but it was far superior than the crap we have with the name now.)

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Millionaire + Right This Minute renewed: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110441/millionaire-right-this-minute-renewed (put away your soap opera reboot fantasies, please. They're here to stay for now.

The Chew is the show on ABC that needs to go.

 

And as for the latter two, I'm not hoping for soap opera revivals. I'm wanting game show revivals- I'm still holding out hope that someone at ABC gets it in their heads to bring back Split Second and The Big Showdown. The two would make an awesome hour of solid quizzing and a good counterpunch towards anything else. Millionaire is in zombie mode nowadays and RightThisMinute is just filler. (Side note: ABC aired a game show in 1968 called Funny You Should Ask from Heatter-Quigley, but it was far superior than the crap we have with the name now.)

Yes we know you want these two shows that no one remembers to come back. You’ve only mentioned it a gazillion times.

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Just like KQCA. Bill Cunningham and robert irvine comes on KMAX still. Wilkos on the other hand is on KTXL which is odd since the show is NBCU produced but shown on a tribune station. theres also the Judge shows on KOVR, KMAX and KTXL. oh and did i mention there are 4 COURT SHOWS on KTXL?

 

None of the NBC O&Os carry the trash trio, which Wilkos is a part of. Maury was completely dropped by the O&Os in 2003, when WCMH/Columbus finally dumped it from the schedule.

 

The major station groups to carry the NBCU talkers are Sinclair and Tribune, believe it or not.

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None of the NBC O&Os carry the trash trio, which Wilkos is a part of. Maury was completely dropped by the O&Os in 2003, when WCMH/Columbus finally dumped it from the schedule.

 

The major station groups to carry the NBCU talkers are Sinclair and Tribune, believe it or not.

 

KQCA seems to be the only Hearst Station to show 2 of them because they don't list other Hearst stations.

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The Chew is the show on ABC that needs to go.

 

 

Yes we know you want these two shows that no one remembers to come back. You’ve only mentioned it a gazillion times.

 

I would love to see daytime versions of Match Game, $100,000 Pyramid (inflate the top prize to $1,000,000) or revive Hollywood Squares or Gambit for ABC. But some soap opera fans (my granny is one of them) still say they want their soaps back, some say revive All My Children.

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Good luck with Hollywood Squares. CBS has the rights and additionally, they let VH1 revive it, even if it is in a........different way.

I had wondered who had the rights, as it would be a very logical addition to the ABC summer line-up. For the right price, get Bergeron and Whoopi back. It would write itself.

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I would love to see daytime versions of Match Game, Pyramid or revive Hollywood Squares or Gambit for ABC. But some still say they want their soaps back, some say revive All My Children.

 

I'd like to see Press Your Luck revived as well

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I had wondered who had the rights, as it would be a very logical addition to the ABC summer line-up. For the right price, get Bergeron and Whoopi back. It would write itself.

 

They could still do it, maybe on CBS or even, if they somehow get some of the people from Hip Hop Squares, on the CW (either in the vacated slot that Tribune's giving up nationally) or on the CW O&Os/Tier 2 CBS stations, which would also see it airing in syndication mostly on CW, MNT, Fox and independent stations with a few Big 3s (mostly your WWJs, WAWVs, KVEOs etc) mixed in.

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KCWE a Hearst station has all 3 Talkers but no midday Newscast on KMBC/KCWE. Wipeout bring back. More Newscast to KC maybe. In addition, Sewee also launching a fashion news service Holly's Fashion Fix featuring fashion expert Holly Katz from Atlanta. It provides short-form content for use in news and digital platforms.

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Any further information on when Chicago Fire will be syndicated and/or airing the previous seasons on a cable outlet?

 

Nothing yet; and if anything, we have to wait a little longer before we get any news.

 

TBH, I'm just as puzzled as you are that Fire got passed over for PD to be the first Chicago show to get syndicated.

(Probably because most people still love police procedurals)

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I had wondered who had the rights, as it would be a very logical addition to the ABC summer line-up. For the right price, get Bergeron and Whoopi back. It would write itself.

 

Thinking the two of them would be taking a little bit of a pay cut to do the show again, though.

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Nothing yet; and if anything, we have to wait a little longer before we get any news.

 

TBH, I'm just as puzzled as you are that Fire got passed over for PD to be the first Chicago show to get syndicated.

(Probably because most people still love police procedurals)

 

I blame it all on the recent debut of Chicago West.

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Any further information on when Chicago Fire will be syndicated and/or airing the previous seasons on a cable outlet? Was surprised that Chicago PD was done before Chicago Fire.

Nothing yet; and if anything, we have to wait a little longer before we get any news.

 

TBH, I'm just as puzzled as you are that Fire got passed over for PD to be the first Chicago show to get syndicated.

(Probably because most people still love police procedurals)

Chicago Fire's serialized elements make it a tougher sell in syndication. NBCU shopped it around last year and only got one low-ball offer from a cable network. PD is more procedural and thus got the better deal.

 

http://deadline.com/2017/01/tv-procedurals-sales-slump-cable-networks-1201875545/

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I want to go a year further (2019-20) and ask if NBC’s juggernaut blockbuster This Is Us will have station groups and cable networks (if it’s not USA or another NBCU property) paying big bucks for the rerun rights? With all of the network specific apps, Hulu, and Netflix having all episodes of shows will a show that popular be worth its value on the syndie rerun circuit?

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I want to go a year further (2019-20) and ask if NBC’s juggernaut blockbuster This Is Us will have station groups and cable networks (if it’s not USA or another NBCU property) paying big bucks for the rerun rights? With all of the network specific apps, Hulu, and Netflix having all episodes of shows will a show that popular be worth its value on the syndie rerun circuit?

Have dramas ever been prime syndication fodder?

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This is Us (a show I admittedly don't watch, so correct me if I'm wrong) seems like a show that might be too serialized to work in syndication. Picked up by a streaming service or even a cable network for binge-watching/marathons, though? Absolutely.

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