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Editors note: On October 10, Deadline posted a story summarizing a Medium column written by Jim McKairnes, a former SVP Planning for CBS who’s spent the past 13 years teaching TV history at the college level. The title of his piece was “Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An Rip Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry,” which, among other things, said that scheduling “is the word that’s slowly becoming irrelevant to the medium, having less and less meaning as television itself comes to mean more and more.”
Both the column and our subsequent writeup struck a chord with current and former executives, many of whom were eager to defend today’s linear schedulers — even though pretty much everyone acknowledged how much the job has changed over the years. So we asked former Fox and NBC executive Preston Beckman, who worked for 35 years in audience research, strategic program planning and scheduling before...
Both the column and our subsequent writeup struck a chord with current and former executives, many of whom were eager to defend today’s linear schedulers — even though pretty much everyone acknowledged how much the job has changed over the years. So we asked former Fox and NBC executive Preston Beckman, who worked for 35 years in audience research, strategic program planning and scheduling before...
- 10/12/2023
- by Preston Beckman
- Deadline Film + TV
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During a summer visit to Los Angeles this year, Jim McKairnes — a former SVP Planning for CBS who’s spent the past 13 years teaching TV history at the college level — had dinner with a fellow TV executive who shared concerns about the streaming world and how “viewers and the experience of watching and loving TV seemed to take a back seat to algorithms and optimizations.”
Around the same time, news broke that Kevin Levy was stepping down from his role as EVP Program Planning, Scheduling and Acquisitions at The CW. That’s when it dawned on McKairnes that the role of a scheduler, “the crafting of a 22-hours-a-week, 35-weeks-a-season primetime lineup worth jillions of dollars, just isn’t a thing anymore.”
So McKairnes sat down and wrote a piece for Medium called “Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An Rip Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry.” Along with offering a history...
Around the same time, news broke that Kevin Levy was stepping down from his role as EVP Program Planning, Scheduling and Acquisitions at The CW. That’s when it dawned on McKairnes that the role of a scheduler, “the crafting of a 22-hours-a-week, 35-weeks-a-season primetime lineup worth jillions of dollars, just isn’t a thing anymore.”
So McKairnes sat down and wrote a piece for Medium called “Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An Rip Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry.” Along with offering a history...
- 10/10/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
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For just about every decade that there has been a sitcom on television, it’s been easy to identify those stars who shine bright as the current face of comedy. In the ’50s, it was Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball. In the ’60s, it was Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith. The ’70s brought us Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, followed by Sherman Hemsley, Bill Cosby and Michael J. Fox in the ’80s, Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr and the cast of Friends in the ’90s, Charlie Sheen and Bernie Mac in the early aughts and Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jim Parsons in 2006 and beyond.
But ever since Veep and The Big Bang Theory went off the air in 2019, the spotlight has remained surprisingly vacant — the result of an expanding and ever-changing business in which multi-camera sitcoms have become vestiges of the past while contemporary comedies have...
But ever since Veep and The Big Bang Theory went off the air in 2019, the spotlight has remained surprisingly vacant — the result of an expanding and ever-changing business in which multi-camera sitcoms have become vestiges of the past while contemporary comedies have...
- 8/11/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
The Grey helmer Joe Carnahan and Mike Binder are teaming with comedian Matthew Aaron for Dine and Dash, an unscripted multi-camera project. Variety reports that the show has a perennial showbiz dinner setting, with the pilot having Aaron dining one-on-one with six celebrities at a West Hollywood restaurant. Topics of the conversations include love, fame and politics among others. Production starts late 2012. Carnahan and Aaron are serving as executive producers while Patrick Tobias and Melanie Marquez are producing with Jim McKairnes.
- 10/16/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Grey helmer Joe Carnahan and Mike Binder are teaming with comedian Matthew Aaron for Dine and Dash, an unscripted multi-camera project. Variety reports that the show has a perennial showbiz dinner setting, with the pilot having Aaron dining one-on-one with six celebrities at a West Hollywood restaurant. Topics of the conversations include love, fame and politics among others. Production starts late 2012. Carnahan and Aaron are serving as executive producers while Patrick Tobias and Melanie Marquez are producing with Jim McKairnes.
- 10/16/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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