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Both Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage went into syndication this fall on terrestrial broadcast stations for their first season. They were sold to Tribune Co stations as a major launch for the group in late night. But they have performed poorly in the ratings. So HBO recently came to its corporate cousin, Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, wanting to pull the shows from syndication. Yesterday, Warner Bros contacted stations to give them the news. However, the series will continue their syndicated runs on cable: Curb Your Enthusiasm on TV Guide Channel, and Entourage on Spike. What HBO plans for the two shows next is unclear.
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no reason to keep shows in syndication when syndie residuals are equal or less than barter revenue… syndie residual structure is out of whack. Creative Talent is the Loser! Guilds simply dont understand the bizness
Simply put, the heavily edited versions of these shows were completely pointless and I enjoy them both. HBO needs to do with those two shows what it has done with a show like OZ. Run it on your sister HBO channels. The shows are too provocative language/content wise to be on network television even at midnight.
Dude you’re right on target! Entourage is so watered down from editing that you can’t even follow the story on regular TV.
I certainly agree with brick. These shows and including in my opinion THE SOPRANOS were so heavily censored they totally lost their point. The language, nudity, and violence in the SOPRANOS were an important element in the stories, To edit them out was indeed making the stories pointless.
Commercials ruin these shows and Entourage is only funny maybe once but watching an episode again and again the show is boring.
Good move. Why would I watch either of these shows heavily edited without the language when I could just watch them online or on DVD (incidentally I have both series in full on DVD lol)
This is a case where the neutering required for broadcast syndication ruined all the greatness and originality of these 2 terrific shows.
I’d like to see them back in the rotation on HBO. Especially CYE. They used to play CYE every evening around 7 PM on HBO and I never tired of it.
I totally agree. I Tivo CYE every night and it has become my new favorite show!!! My husband and I laugh our heads off and because we watch it late at night, we go to sleep in a happy, laughing mood. I graduated with Larry David back in 1965 from Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, so I am partial to his humor and acting anyway. But we think he is the funniest man in the world! Bad move to move him from syndication!!!!
The shows were just too expensive for HBO to keep them on the air in syndication. When will the syndication marketplace and frankly the cable marketplace as well finally get it through their heads that Pay cable shows just don;t work anywhere but Pay cable, foreign markets and DVD/Streaming distribution. Outside of Sex in the City which was not a disaster for TBS there is not another example of an HBO/Showtime series having an after life in the domestic television marketplace. Can’t wait to see Hung, Weeds, United states of Tara, Nurse Jackie ect. next on KTLA?
The only series ever to to work big off of Pay Cable were Showtimes “Outer Limits” and “Stargate:SGI and in fairness they were far more commercial then anything the Pay Networks produce anymore, They also delivered far bigger numbers than any of the shows currently running on HBO/Showtime. That will never happen again.
It’s funny that everyone on here is trying to make it out that the editing of content killed these series in syndication. Pretty funny since the much more explicit and violent Sopranos killed in syndication for A & E. Perhaps both of these “insider” shows simply don’t appeal to a wider audience than the smallish (Entourage) and very small (Curb) audiences they pull on HBO.
The question I have is with the rise of on-line viewing what will HBO do when the inevitable decline in paid subscribers bites them in the butt. Right now they specialize in extremely expensive low rated programming that please the talent and the agents, not so much the audiences.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Bob DiBitetto would love his 2M per hour buy in returned to him. Sopranos did nothing for A&E and editing killed it. A number of people have spoken about HBO rerunning these shows in their entirety on sister channels and that’s the best thing to do. If HBO told me tomorrow that they were re-running The Sopranos starting with the pilot, I’d be there in a heartbeat waiting to spend time with Tony and Pussy again! Challenge is residuals and music rights which simply cost money. But HBO should consider a small subscription for the HD experience and make it on demand. People are increasingly moving off the DVD format and interested in downloading on to their DVR’s. There’s no doubt a segment of viewers would pay that extra fee to access it anytime.
Nonsense. The Sopranos did not “kil[l] in sindication for A&E.” It performed as lackluster there as Sex & the City did for TBS. A&E tried to really push it in the beginning, with primetime airings and holiday marathons, but the viewership for the censored version wasn’t there and it was quickly relegate to weekday airings at 3 pm, where it remains.
I’m guessing Spike is wishing HBO would take Entourage back too. It’s hash marks there too.
Yeah, couldn’t wait for Deadwood syndication. The whole show with dubbing.
I won’t pay for HBO so catching these shows in syndie was my entry to them and they’re great. You don’t need to see nudity and smutty language to appreciate the humor. Grow up!