I used to be a fan, but The Chive BS was the last straw....

Well then yes, you are. If you think for one second that these charities for disabled veterans or handicapped children are selfless acts of kindness, then you are a fool. The truth is that for each dollar that goes to the chive, 3 cents falls out for charities, and even those charities are meant to bring about brand awareness and promotion. For heaven's sake, they make their own beer which actually, not metaphorically, tastes like vomit. Their t-shirts "sell out" within seconds because of purposeful under-stocking to represent popularity. They "promote" kindness but letting people submit random acts of what they've done, and in the next post they tease people who are different and label them as "virgins". The site is a piece of crap that has frat boys and people who want to fit in fooled. End of story.

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You can tell this show had its budget slashed because of the casting changes.

Well, I do not necessarily know if the budget was slashed, or if that was the original plan, if the show kept getting renewed. I am surprised any show can/could afford Heather Locklear, (since she has been working for so long).
The relevant facts go something like this:

1) TV show audiences are much more spread out over hundreds of cable and satellite service channels, plus the streaming and view on demand from the internet, and even the over-the-air broadcast channels.
2) With less eyes viewing any program material, revenues are relatively lower for all/any of the shows.
3) Many newer TV series use what the professional sports had started calling platooning, where the 'players' are regularly swapped out. This lowers the payroll cost for the talent by saving the marquee talent (you know, the ones that get people to buy those expensive tickets?). If the show is a hit, "the other guys" will clone it, so viewership will fall. Even if it doesn't get cloned, interest in shows seldom rises with age...

The worst case? Maybe that is the (few remaining) soap operas, with the occasional "The part of fill-in-the-character will be played by fill-in-the-unknown in today's episode." Next to that is the case where significant characters routinely get killed off, (not just the 'red-shirts' like in the original Star Trek series).
Just to toss out a few, LOST, PERSON OF INTEREST, THE 100, THE WALKING DEAD, GAME OF THRONES, GREY'S ANATOMY, NCIS(?), with each of them having 3 or more seasons.
Of course the "game shows" objective is to reduce the cast to the 'last one standing' (winner), then start the next season with an all new set of competitors. Those would be shows like AMERICAN IDOL, IRON CHEFS, and any with voting people off the show.

The more 'expensive actors' a show starts with, the more likely the show will fail to get renewed, (didn't live up to expectations), or characters will 'exit' the show, one way or another.


I do not remember exactly why, but I looked up THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE the other day, and found out their weekly variety show had 30 million viewers. Yes, 30 million. They, like SONNY AND CHER, were singers originally. What studio executive wouldn't froth at the mouth to get viewership numbers like that?
FYI, I do remember now...
They were getting divorced after a decades-long marriage. In an interview, Toni said "The Captain" was never very affectionate with her, (touching, (he did not like being touched), eye contact, PDA, the works). It sounded much more like a marriage of convenience, especially when she said their accountant told them they could save a lot of money on taxes if they were married... guess what happened next?

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I hear there was more chive crap in tonight's episode as well....pathetic.

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