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Ninga

(8,281 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:09 PM Mar 2013

While I love Chris Hayes, how will his roundtable style of disucssion

translate from a 2-hour format to 1 hour? The Sat morning program has a, well, morning feel to it. Relaxed and not rushed and organic in terms of how topics are allowed to debated and expanded on.

Typically a 1 hr. program has about 39 to 42 minutes of actual content.

If Chris talks on and off to a total of about 10, that leaves about 30 minutes more or less for 4 guests to divide equaling slightly over 7 minutes each.

I suppose if the panel sticks to one subject it can work out ok, but will the depth and detail of the 2-hr format fit in to a smaller 1hr shoe?

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While I love Chris Hayes, how will his roundtable style of disucssion (Original Post) Ninga Mar 2013 OP

i wonder about that too Enrique Mar 2013 #1

Like Rendell and Steele!!! I hope not !! arrrrghhhhhhhh!!!!!! Ninga Mar 2013 #4

Who said it will be a roundtable style of disucssion? Tx4obama Mar 2013 #2

Good point....however the unique conversational style of his Sat morning program provides Ninga Mar 2013 #3

Rule one of TV, if it is an element that has appeal remove it at once. Bluenorthwest Mar 2013 #6

Actually, what you described might be called "applying the formula"...or like substituting whole Ninga Mar 2013 #7

I don't think he'll use a roundtable in his new format... Cooley Hurd Mar 2013 #5

Whatever it is, it won't be UP! immoderate Mar 2013 #8

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

1. i wonder about that too

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:11 PM

Mar 2013

and will he have the same type of guests, or will he just have the MSNBC regulars?

Ninga

(8,281 posts)

4. Like Rendell and Steele!!! I hope not !! arrrrghhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Reply to Enrique (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:16 PM

Mar 2013

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

2. Who said it will be a roundtable style of disucssion?

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:13 PM

Mar 2013

I haven't heard anything yet about how his new show will be set up.

Ninga

(8,281 posts)

3. Good point....however the unique conversational style of his Sat morning program provides

Reply to Tx4obama (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:15 PM

Mar 2013

in-depth analysis to topical issues. I thought that was the appeal.

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

6. Rule one of TV, if it is an element that has appeal remove it at once.

Reply to Ninga (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:26 PM

Mar 2013

Then declare that other elements are really what made the show appealing. Repeat this process until you have destroyed the thing you started with. Send host on vacation, replace with a host who has a certain appeal. Once you determine exactly what that appeal is...remove it at once...

Ninga

(8,281 posts)

7. Actually, what you described might be called "applying the formula"...or like substituting whole

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:32 PM

Mar 2013

grain dense bread with gasp, white bread.

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

5. I don't think he'll use a roundtable in his new format...

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:23 PM

Mar 2013

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

8. Whatever it is, it won't be UP!

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 09:03 PM

Mar 2013

In any case Chris will have to handle different formats of interviews because some of it will be breaking. It's different on the weekend.

I suspect Chris will break the formula as much as he can, and I look for innovative moves. But it will be a different show.

--imm

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