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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 291645, member: 289"] Reality shows are popular with the networks because they don't have to pay the participants what they would pay an actor. Also, the production values are minimal compared to a dramatic series. Regarding the panel shows, there are some that don't involve competion vs. the panelists. "Washington Week" on PBS is better than, say, "The McLaughlin Group". In sports, I always loved "The Sportwriters on TV" from Chicago back in the 80's and 90's, with Ben Bentley, Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason and Rick Telander. Those guys were friends, not competitors. They could get excited sometimes, (especially Jauss), but their shows were like a friendly bar consersation on sports. They even did shows while on a fishing trip together. That show was on from 1985-2000. That inspired ESPN to create The Sports Reporters, which led to all their other talk shows, like Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption. But there were two significant differences between The Sportswriters on TV and The Sports Reporters. The Sports Reporters were from different cities and there was an air of competition between them. There were rivals, not buddies. Also, The Sportswriters on TV had a set where they were just sitting around what might have been a poker table and the format was just a free-wheeling discussion, a sort of libertarian debate where the only rule was to respect eachother, which they did. The Sports Reporters is set up like a poltiical debate, with each person in their own chair or stool and each given their own chance at a sound-bite. [media=youtube]ojUtzQUkFuQ[/media] I've suggested to Brent Axe that a Syracuse version of The Sportswriters on TV would be interesting. They could have Brent and Bud, as they ahve on Syracuse.com, (The Bud and Brent Show), with maybe Bob Snyder and a rotating fourth panelsit that could be another journalist or a coach or a former player or someone else invovled with sports in this area. [/QUOTE]

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