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10-15-2019, 01:56 PM | #1 |
1-0 TPWW Chess Master
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Bruce Prichard to take over duties for Eric Bischoff as lead writer of Smackdown Live
Will this make things better or worse?
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10-15-2019, 01:58 PM | #2 |
Trickster Demon
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Not lead writer, but Exec Director, and he will also oversee creative
Probably worse, much worse |
10-15-2019, 02:00 PM | #3 |
Trickster Demon
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10-15-2019, 02:13 PM | #4 |
Triple A
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Bischoff totally gone from WWE apparently
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10-15-2019, 02:18 PM | #5 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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lol wtf
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10-15-2019, 02:25 PM | #6 |
President of Freedonia
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Hahahaha
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10-15-2019, 02:31 PM | #7 |
President of Freedonia
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This all but ensures Smackdown will not improve creatively. It’s going to be all Vince. Bruce has gargled Vince’s balls for years.
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10-15-2019, 02:35 PM | #8 |
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10-15-2019, 02:50 PM | #9 |
Resident drug enabler
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Yeah. I think Bruce has even admitted that his greatest skill is that he “gets” what Vince wants without having to ask questions which isn’t something anyone else can do. So this pretty much just means Vince is writing the show now without having to actually write the show.
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10-15-2019, 03:30 PM | #10 |
king of sucks
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guess that's why there was no 83 weeks this week. easy e is to laid back to work for vince.
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10-15-2019, 03:37 PM | #11 |
It's a blood match!
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Make Smackdown! Better or worse? Well you have the ULTIMATE McMahon kiss ass in charge of the show... Eh... but Raw has Heyman and is also much worse.
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10-15-2019, 03:52 PM | #12 |
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I have zero faith in Prichard. He's even worse than Bischoff in catering.
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10-15-2019, 03:59 PM | #13 |
king of sucks
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I didn't think eric was in the long term plan anyway, he was just there to make fox exes happy over the move. hope eric did not buy a house up there.
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10-15-2019, 04:19 PM | #14 |
Tongue my Fartbox
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He moved his family up there as well..
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10-15-2019, 05:10 PM | #15 |
king of sucks
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the wife and dog that's all the kids moved on.
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10-15-2019, 06:53 PM | #16 |
TPWW Fire Pro Champ
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Ahhhhhh. It just keeps getting better and better. Like to know the details on what's up with Bischoff. Absolutely nuts if he's really gone 2 weeks into Smackdown on FOX. |
10-15-2019, 07:01 PM | #17 |
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Lol
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10-15-2019, 07:49 PM | #18 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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I now hope Linda goes the big house and Bischoff visits her in prison for an Impact promo
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10-15-2019, 09:09 PM | #19 |
World Class References
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He will have spent two weeks with his gloriously tanned face buried in between Steph McMahon's beautiful natural breasts, motorboatin'.
If he got caught it's probably because she came so hard that Triple H slipped on it in the locker room and saw Bischoff hiding up her skirt when he landed. |
10-15-2019, 10:28 PM | #20 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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Took just 2 weeks for WWE to start upsetting FOX.
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10-15-2019, 11:33 PM | #21 | |
Resident drug enabler
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10-16-2019, 02:44 AM | #22 | |
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10-16-2019, 04:21 AM | #23 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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Out with the old, in with the... old.
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10-16-2019, 05:57 AM | #24 |
I W C DEEZ NUTZ!
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Huhuh... you said "duties"...
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10-16-2019, 09:49 AM | #25 |
TPWW Fire Pro Champ
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Soooo, we got a pool going on how long Smackdown's gonna last until FOX ultimately cancels it?
FOX can cancel it, right? Been a while since high school tv production class. |
10-16-2019, 09:57 AM | #26 |
It's a blood match!
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It's always been rumored that they would demote to FS1 if that were to happen.
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10-16-2019, 10:37 AM | #27 |
boop/bop/beep
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it'll be on FS1 in due time.
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10-16-2019, 11:28 AM | #28 |
Stickman
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I feel like Bischoff did nothing. Like what did he actually do for Smackdown? Same old crap week in week out.
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10-16-2019, 12:23 PM | #29 |
It's a blood match!
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Those looking for WWE to "get better" need to "get real". It's not going to happen. WWE has been steadily in decline since the failed Invasion angle. Some periods of decline have accelerated more than others, and financially obviously they have themselves in a "Can't lose situation", but that doesn't mean they will turn around the ship creatively. The monster is to big to tame. There is too much content for WWE to even take it seriously themselves. The rise of WWE creatively will only come after their fall. Which is inevitable.
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10-16-2019, 05:38 PM | #30 |
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You’d think FOX would be able to cancel. It doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t. That being said, given it seems to work like sports licensing, it does make more sense that they would just put it on a channel where 2 million viewers is impressive.
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10-16-2019, 05:50 PM | #31 |
king of sucks
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they can move it to fs1, but fox is putting it on dead tv night anyway. so they are not expecting high ratings from the start.
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10-16-2019, 06:25 PM | #32 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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Yeah if SD can keep 2-2.5 million viewers on Fox it ain't going nowhere. Friday is for sure dead night and that's a pretty good audience size on it.
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10-16-2019, 07:06 PM | #33 |
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Didn’t Fridays on FOX get 3 million people on Friday during the regular season, or am I mistaken?
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10-16-2019, 09:44 PM | #34 |
RoBOT Reigns
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You don't win bidding wars with THAT kind of dollar value with the same outs that a normal sitcom or drama show would have.
I am 100% sure Fox can't simply cancel the show. They would move it to FS1, like others have said. It is their only real option, and I'm sure WWE would have placed something in the contract that states they get an automatic extension if they are moved to FS1. As for Bischoff, I think it was all a stunt, drum up some interest, and be a scapegoat when we need one. All the reports of Bischoff not doing anything, it just seems like it wasn't a real hire. |
10-16-2019, 10:20 PM | #35 | |
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Going into SD's debut, they had a show or two hitting the 6+ million range for Fridays but then they had other shows during the year hitting well below sub-SD numbers on average. |
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10-16-2019, 10:27 PM | #36 |
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Yeah, I remember reading that a Tim Allen show was getting 6 million people.
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10-17-2019, 05:56 AM | #37 |
World Class References
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Why isn't Tim Allen a billionaire
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10-17-2019, 05:58 AM | #38 |
World Class References
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Would you rather watch two hours of Smackdown or a Tim Allen show for half an hour?
I choose Tim. |
10-17-2019, 06:59 AM | #39 |
boop/bop/beep
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Tim for a half hour, every time. Especially if it's a re-run of home improvement i've already seen 4843678 times.
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10-17-2019, 11:39 AM | #40 |
World Class References
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The choice was too easy in retrospect. Only a fool would choose Smackdown.
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