Seemingly Intractable Questions In Pop, No.1 in a Series

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How do you make pop work on TV?

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Re: ORGAFUN WILL REIGN FOREVER

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Bad choice of words, I accept - when I refer to the death of TV, I really meant the death of the traditional TV format of scheduled shows with ad breaks in the middle and at the end of shows.

Is there a viable way for music shows to continue to be made in the "new world"? Yes, there probably is, but I don't feel that anyone has come up with it yet. As has been said elsewhere on this post, the most successful recent examples (Pop Idol and X-Factor) are really shows about the production of music rather than the music itself.

Audience participation is clearly essential to any successful future shows. As I've said elsewhere, why would I watch a music show of which 90% of the content may not be interesting to me, when instead, I can watch clips (of music shows) of my choosing, that are interesting to me? I think that this is the key problem facing programme makers (and this is no different to the existing model) - how do I make the show that has the widest possible appeal without alienating too big a portion of my potential viewers?