Maybe things will go full circle and we’ll get shows like “49th street in New York City at 5 PM” and “Boats entering San Francisco Bay”
Rugby shows will replace reality shows. Mark me.
Wonder no more, as this exact thing just happened this very week! On Sunday’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, viewers were told to go to NBC.com and choose whether a recurring villain lived or died. You could then go to the website and view both endings.
(In case anyone was wondering, they chose:
that she lived.
They’re actually already here.
UPN showed the first, Game Over, in the Spring. It was lame and died a quick and deserving death.
Now there’s Father of the Pride on NBC before Scrubs. It was interesting, but not something I’d go out of my way to see.
Personally I’d really like to see action/drama shows catch on. With 24, Alias, Teh Shield and others, when it’s done right, it’s fantastic.
Oh God, you’re right. That was aweful. Typical Friday night crap.
Rugby? Pitosh!
It’s Snooker that will be coming to the 2005-2006 Fall schedule.
Being that there’s already poker on TV, neither of these suggestions seems the least bit farfetched to me.
I think as digital media starts to take hold, mass-media entertainment is going to become more interactive. As it is, people can vote folks out of some reality shows. What if the audience had more control? What if you could pick endings, or choose actions at key junctures and watch various plots unfold? Of course, the interactivity will be fairly modest at first, but eventually, we may enter the age of custom-made plots, and even story arcs, especially if CGI allows creators the kind of actionable flexibility in TV shows we now can find in, say, first-person-shooters, or virtual life games like The Sims.