If you saw any of Sunday night's Emmy Awards telecast, you might have picked up on a bit of a desperation theme going on, that the gathered creative masses are a little concerned about the future of their medium.
(It was especially reflected in Neil Patrick Harris' opening song-and-dance number called "Put Down The Remote"...which, of course, I didn't see until the next day online.)
Combine that with the "blockbuster" shifts like the one created by the new Jay Leno show (variety/talk show five nights a week in primetime? Scandalous!) and it kinda looks like the networks are in Spaghetti Cooking Mode...you know, plucking an idea out of the roiling waters, throwing it up against the wall and seeing if it will stick?
Author/researcher Henry Jenkins writes about this kind of industry unsettling on Huffington Post this week. His general thesis? Nobody knows what's really going on right now.
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I definitely agree that networks are trying to put out random shows right now. They simply don't know what consumers want to see anymore. We really haven't had some new type of television show anymore. Reality TV is dying out. Game shows don't exist like they used to. There are countless sitcoms and random shows about anything one could possibly imagine. I don't blame them for trying to test out all of these new shows and stunts to try to see what we as consumers want to see.
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