When most tv shows really make their money in reruns (and, more recently, in the home video market), I used to be complacent in the knowledge that tv execs would stop making reality tv despite low productions costs when they discovered that viewers weren't interested in reruns of shows whose whole point is the cliffhanger Who's going to win the contest?. Then, about two years ago, F/X started running Fear Factor reruns. I say, now or soon, look to "amateurs" on the web for cutting-edge screen drama (the only problem with that, of course, being that the plethora of choices means there'll be few or no runaway hits).
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When most tv shows really make their money in reruns (and, more recently, in the home video market), I used to be complacent in the knowledge that tv execs would stop making reality tv despite low productions costs when they discovered that viewers weren't interested in reruns of shows whose whole point is the cliffhanger Who's going to win the contest?. Then, about two years ago, F/X started running Fear Factor reruns. I say, now or soon, look to "amateurs" on the web for cutting-edge screen drama (the only problem with that, of course, being that the plethora of choices means there'll be few or no runaway hits).