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BREAKING: Paramount Closes Studios. “Treads” Has Confirmed That Paramount Has Shut Down It’s 📺 Studios In Los Angeles, CA As The Skydance Merger. It’s Aming To $500 Million In Cost Cuts Inc. Losing 2,000 Jobs. The Studio Formed In 2013, The Second Incarnation Of Paramount TV Arm, Separate From The OG Paramount TV Studios Which Bought Classic “Desilu” Created & Founded By The Late Great Actor/Studio Executive/Producer/Musician Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball In The 1960’s That Produced Classic 📺 Shows Like “Star Trek”, “The Andy Griffith Show”, “I Love Lucy” & “The Untouchables”. A Very 💔😢😭💔 Day In Hollywood Indeed!

Fast forward to 2024 and CW is as valuable as ever. In a confusing TV/ streaming/ cable industry where they want you to not only have the premium app, but still want you to have a cable service. CW has a broadcast channel with a free app. An old friend in the wwe will be providing Tuesday night wrestling with NXT while the nascar Xfinity series will be on Saturdays in addition to college football.

Steve was a DEI hire

@connro The dismissive way you talk about the black shows on UPN is very sloppy. UPN was only able to experiment with different programming or even secure the buyout deal because of the loyal African American viewers who took a chance on a poorly run channel with a weird name. It was the loyal years of watching shows like Moesha, The Parkers, Half & Half, and Girlfriends that kept UPN afloat for years. On the nights these programs aired, some even beat shows on The WB easily. The WB, which geared toward a more white young audience, also struggled to beat ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX. Please do better reporting.

Love your videos!

Pat Sajak Wheel Of Fortune Host From 1981 - 2024 For 4 Decades So Thank You So Much Pat Sajak!

oh man I think Fox after Breakfast was like the Titanic hitting the Iceberg it was becoming a Slow Sinking Ship until Laurie and the Puppet left then the Ship broke in Half before Sinking to the Bottom of the Ocean!

6:20 - 6:24 😆😆😆 "THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT!"

Well I am living in 2024 and let me tell you Steve Harvey has now been closer to the member in fast money then in your video so it is coming back.

You seem to have forgotten about an broadcast network called PBS and their affiliates like WGBH and WHRO

I’m still waiting for that completely separate video about the wb 🥲

Two very well-done documentaries! Like many, I loved "Breakfast Time" and disliked "FOX After Breakfast". BT was always real and energetic, and despite the craziness of it, treated its viewers with respect. Nothing ever felt contrived or forced or staged. BT was a perfect storm of just the right number of people in the right place in the right roles at the right time. We'll never see anything like it again, not even close. FAB, on the other hand, was a different story. Other than Tom and Laurie and Bob, there was nothing redeeming about it. I've always wondered whether the FOX executives in charge of FAB really wanted it to succeed from day one. I'm doubtful of that. Was really great to hear from Tom and Laurie on their reflections of both shows and the successes they''ve both had since then. Great job on both docs Connor, and can't wait to see what you do next!

2024; The CW is now majority owned by Nexstar, and Paramount is about to be bought by someone else. Warner Bros. Discovery, on the other hand, is... I don't know...

I hope the show increases its Fast Money grand prize and the consolation prize for Fast Money loss. The show has been criticized by many fans for being cheap and said that the $20,000 prize isn't really life-changing money. I just hope that the Fast Money consolation prize becomes $25 per point and the Fast Money grand prize becomes $30,000.

Can you do bob barker and the price is right

I could watch Kenan Thompson as Steve Harvey on SNL's Feud parody for hours.

Plenty of people back in the day had a problem with the kissing as well; it's not just a matter of hindsight.

Did UPN ever had a Saturday morning kids block? Like I've always known that the others had one for a bit, but as a kid I never went to UPN for anything other than wrestling.

Never thought I would be watching an hour long family feud documentary

Alternate title: the road to cringe.

5:07 Ray comes out to the same music they used for Jay Leno's introduction when he was guest hosting for Carson. I miss Doc Severinsen's orchestra.

Louie was underrated. I grew up with the animated series. Fox Kids back in the 90s was awesome! They had big names like Spider-Man, X-Men, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs. And then cartoons based on comedians like Bobby’s World and Life with Louie.

6:41 benefit to shareholders sure but a death knell to ideological diversity

What was that wisecrack that Bob said during the segment where Laurie is interviewing Rob Schneider in the shower ? There were too many overlapping voices for me to distinguish what Bob said to Laurie. 😂

How dumb are you? RAHHHHswell. Learn how to read and pronounce the name of things.

31:41 Scott Wimmer sighting.

I think you should tackle the Chris Gethard Show next. It had a very similar meddling cycle between its move from public access to two different cable stations that proved that most executives feel like they need to sand off shows with a special identity.

I don't remember UPN and this is coming someone who used to watch TV back in the 90's and 2000's but slowly Dwindle away during the 2010's but by the Time My Parent's and me Moved we went from having Basic Cable to Sattelite TV and I guess UPN was soon having the Axe dropped on the Network because nothing seemed to Lure me to watch anything on UPN Strange because I know of CBS, NBC, ABC, and CTV but UPN? Nope!

The legend should VA warning to everyone showbiz is not constant unless you're extremely popular so the thing to do is to save money and not spend carefree. Unfortunately Ray Combs found that out the hard way and as a young man of only 40. He got a fat salary with family feud but apparently it was more than he had before so he started spending money foolishly. I miss him I thought he was funny and hilarious and I'm really surprised more people did not pick him up as a stand-up comedian. Rest in peace Ray combs. I understand the demons you had and I sympathize I have the same demons except I have grandkids.

Morton Downey a trash show I disagree I love that show when it came on.

And he quit after 41 Years now Ryan Seacrest is Hosting it now and Vanna might be leaving in a Few Years! I was hoping for Vanna to Host the Show but that doesn't seem to be happening!

Next, the price is right

I didn’t know Tom was on fox Before Afv

I didn’t know Tom was on fox before he was on Afv in the early 2000

Dude. You need more content! You do great work.

Well said

24:10 It's SUPER weird that the new director was LESS kinetic. Conan's show was always much more kinetic and energetic than almost all other shows. It was the late night madhouse. On paper he seemed like a smart hire. Sadly, it wasn't.

Breakfast time is to morning programming, what Conan was to Late Night.

UPN was cool in it's prime

The failure for UPN to pick up "Malcolm In The Middle" and "American Idol" is amazing to me. "American Idol" was the TV show that actually brought FOX to the #1 status over the traditional "Big 3" networks for the first time. Could you imagine what UPN could have done with those numbers? So much unrealized potential.

The kissing didnt age well? Aw, does baby need his diaper changed?

That match game game contestant early in this video had quite an impressive sixhead.

Richard still lives on in another small way. He once wrote "el doggo" for an answer on Match Game. We use "doggo" as an alternative term for dogs today. I like to think he inspired that term.

For the record, I’ve seen Richard Dawson kiss men on the show before. It didn’t happen a lot, but I can remember at least two or three times when he did and it was no bigger a deal than when he kissed the ladies. The kissing honestly never bothered me, but I grew up with Richard Dawson as a fan of both Hogan’s Heroes and FF, and it just seemed totally natural. He was being a charming gentleman, and the female guests genuinely seemed flattered. And in many countries, a kiss is seen as a normal part of a first greeting between men, women, or whatever. It’s strange what different generations find creepy though. Personally, I think Lizzo making paintings with her butt and broadcasting it around the world for all to see is incredibly creepy as well as tasteless, and certainly not charming or endearing. I guess it’s all a matter of perspective.

Family Feud contender, Geoff Edwards, wound up hosting my personal favorite 1980s game show, Starcade. He was absolutely great, he knew the game backwards and forwards, he could be funny on the spot and he got on really well with the contestants. Top notch host. Miss you, Geoff!

Star Trek Voyager sucked.

When they brought back Dawson the reason that there was only four contestants is that when the former family’s from the past that was brought back there could of been a contestant died so they lower it to four

To those who miss upn and black sitcoms. The pluto app has alot of their shows.

Who's Watching it after Pat Sajak's Last Episode of Wheel of Fortune?