New programming ideas for My Network TV

[imhomerjay]

IMHO, Terra Nova (and also the late great TNT show Memphis Beat) would have been revived for first-run syndication. It worked for Too Close for Comfort, It's a Living, Silver Spoons, Mama's Family, Webster, Sirens, Forever Knight, Due South, and Punky Brewster in the past. But this practice is less common these days.

Those shows alsocoss peanuts compared to Terra Nova. There's absolutely no way it would work as a syndie.

[spencerkarter85]

Why?

[PirateJohnny]

So I understand that Fox cancelled 'Terra Nova' and Netflix passed on it. Here's an idea: Why not have My Network TV air the show? Maybe it'll become a better "syndicated" show than while on Fox......

Terra Nova cost a bundle to produce.  FOX owns MyTV...

[TVCOOL]

how long MyNetwork TV has left to go? We all know CW will last until 2016 the earliest.

[Iowan]

Personally, I wish that 'Smackdown' hadn't moved to My Network TV in the first place. I know there are some people who agree with me on this. The SyFy contract is supposed to last for at least two years and maybe a possible third. That means MyNet could get the show back as early as later this year!

Also, there's another show we lost to cable-- 'America's Most Wanted'. I also believed this show would be better off on My Network TV or syndicated and I still do. Instead, it's on Lifetime, a cable network. However, 20th Century Fox is still the copyright holder of the show, so maybe Lifetime and MyNet could come up with an agreement regarding 'AMW'...

[Iowan]

It has become my understanding that 'Afterburn' and 'The Bottom Line' are both still in production and seen overseas. My Network TV should strike a deal with the WWE and bring these two programs back to U.S. airwaves where they belong!

[TVCOOL]

Personally, I wish that 'Smackdown' hadn't moved to My Network TV in the first place. I know there are some people who agree with me on this. The SyFy contract is supposed to last for at least two years and maybe a possible third. That means MyNet could get the show back as early as later this year!

Also, there's another show we lost to cable-- 'America's Most Wanted'. I also believed this show would be better off on My Network TV or syndicated and I still do. Instead, it's on Lifetime, a cable network. However, 20th Century Fox is still the copyright holder of the show, so maybe Lifetime and MyNet could come up with an agreement regarding 'AMW'...

I agree with both of these posts. AMW would fit in well with My Network TV at their old time slot 9pm et/pt saturdays.

[Iowan]

Here are some more ideas:

 1. 'Dr. Drew's Lifechangers' is expected to leave The CW Daytime in September 2012.
 Hopefully, the show will continue in first-run syndication, and maybe there could be hour-long
 specials on My Network TV (like a two-parter airing back-to-back on The CW)

 2. Bring back some of the former programs that aired before

 3. Air special presentations of Fox's top hit programming

 4. Make a deal with Lifetime in regard to 'America's Most Wanted'-- after all, TCF does still own
 the copyrights to the show

 4. According to wikipedia.org, there was some proposed programming back in 2006, but
 nothing ever became of these shows. They were:
  A. 'Catwalk' (similar to 'America's Next Top Model')
  B. 'On Scene', produced by Fox News (I think this is similar to 'Celebrity Justice')
  C. 'America's Brainiest' (based on a British game show)
  D. 'Love Island' (the U.S. version of a British celebrity 'Bachelor/Bachelorette')
 I can see B as a possible weekday show with an hour-long version in primetime (like 'Extra' or
 'TMZ'). Also, C sounds like a very plausible show...