Matic asks, ‘Is VH1 Taking Viewers For Granted?’
So for 5 weeks we’ve been experiencing the massive decline in the quality of VH1 shows. It really doesn’t do me or anybody else any good to say anything about what’s wrong with Daisy of Love, Charm School 3 and New York Goes to Work because we already know the answer. However it does make me truly wonder why these shows are doing so horribly and what honestly can be done to make these shows better. This is all my opinion but I wanted to share what I have noticed and writing a long comment isn’t quite good enough for this.
**Matic**
Daisy of Love:
I have never watched one episode of this show, but I do read comments here and I’m aware of all the people quitting on this show. I feel the root of all this show’s problems is mainly linked to casting. It was terrible, and obviously a waste if people are walking out every week. Yea Daisy is portraying herself as a drug addled, blonde bimbo and Riki Rachtman makes every show that he’s on suck harder just with his mere presence, but the contestants are supposed to be what makes the show.
A show can’t be successful if it can’t at the very least make us pretend that it has the possibility of being genuine even if we all know it’s fake and Daisy and the remaining contestants are not doing that.
Averaging 1.4 million viewers a week shows what happens when you take a heavily recycled concept and do everything possible to destroy the elements that make it salvageable.
Charm School 3:
Ok, so before this show came on it seemed like this show had a near-perfect cast, decent Deans and a pretty good choice for the Headmistress.
The first episode aired and it seemed like it was on it’s way to being great. Then the second episode aired and caused an epic divide among the contestants and the viewing audience. But, the last 2 episodes seemed to crash in comparison, and left me wondering why this show isn’t doing better than I had hoped.
As far as the plot of the show goes, it could be argued that the most dynamic contestants (Ki Ki, Farrah, So Hood and Brittaney) left far too early. Also the strong evidence of misplaced and mismatched editing is a source of major frustration to me, and pretty much everyone else who watches this show.
I hope not to seem controversial but when it comes strictly from a numbers standpoint, CS3 is not doing well because black viewers are not interested in the show. Black viewers are the reason why ILM2, FTLORJ, RCOL were more successful than expected and black viewers are the reason why CS3 is under-performing.
To have episode 2 of CS3 only attract 712,000 black viewers as opposed to New York Goes to Work which attracted 985,000 black viewers that same night says that something about this show is off and it has nothing to do with mixing races or shows.
New York Goes to Work:
This show is unbearable to watch, yet, simple changes such as having better jobs choices would make the show profoundly better.
Simply put, we hate New York when she’s taken out of her element (cursing people out and talking about them).
The predictability of said jobs makes people want to want to skip the show because we already know what’s going to happen.
Undeservingly, this show is actually doing better than I expected, ratings wise. It has already performed better than the first 4 episodes of NYGTH and DOL.
NYGTW isn’t failing miserably like I expected because black viewers are keeping it afloat; accounting for nearly 60% of the total audience. Added to that fact, viewers are choosing which episodes to watch, as the ratings display an inconsistent pattern.
Conclusion:
It’s inevitable that ratings would decline as we become bored of, or savvy to VH1’s diet of reality TV; but big personalities will always attract an audience.
Unless VH1 can tweak the formula, cast watchable characters, or in New York’s case; return her to the type of show she does best; it won’t be long before no VH1 show can attract a profitable audience.
It will be interesting to see the effect of this garbage on the surefire hits to come; Real Chance Of Love 2, For The Love Of Ray J 2, and Megan Wants A Millionaire.
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STFU DUCK!
We welcome the new King and Queen of VH1 to New York
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i know you not talking about little ray
COCKtail will NEVER be my queen.
Never.
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I can’t think of any celebrities that I would like to see on VH1
Sorry; on friend’s PC, just in case CL is watching…
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I just wanted to give Matic a Kudos on this piece. I have been feeling like this for a long time. I hope Mindless Entertainment reads this.
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I think the producers of these VH1 shows need some help from the Bad Girls Club producers; they ALWAYS edit their shows well.
I really think what it comes down to is that we all know all these shows are fake and for the cameras. However, they have gotten faker as time has gone on.
FTLORJ was cool because even though you knew it was edited and whatever, it had a realness to it. In saying that though, I did enjoy ROLB, Tough Love (excellent show), and I’ve actually started to dig Daisy of Love. Not because of Daisy, I think she’s empty, but many of the guys on that show are crazy.
Charm School is just ok for me, I like the cast a lot, but again it’s all very fake I don’t think any of those girls wants to change, but I do think that they’ll act like they want to for 100,000 bucks. Try that show without a prize. Or maybe at the end they get a new job or something.
I watch NYGTW usually when drunk, that show should die, but when she’s answering the fan letters she’s funny. NY need a show where she can just hate on people or something. Maybe, give her a talk show I would have liked to see NY give out advice.
I think eventually VH1 is going to have to face the fact that it’s a music station and it’s run this concept into the ground. Bring back behind the music, and where are they now. I don’t know, but they are going to have to move quickly, they are living off of these 51 minds shows when in reality they should only have one a year instead of the 3 or 4 that they’ve been having.
That said, I still watch, I’m totally addicted and I probably won’t stop watching them, until they really start to suck- 20 Pack of Love comes to mind….
kinda interesting, after this brilliant piece was posted, rich posted this on the blog, stating “I’m guessing this didn’t make the final episode, because after a few more fights like these, they’d have to change the name of this show to Scream School.”
http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1612185&vid=394969
just thought it was coincidential
i feel ridiculous for saying this, but in that clip above, i would’ve handled that crumy situation the exact same way brittany did. im a nonconfrontational person and i dont like drama (”lord” knows my life will be drama free when this disgusting mess i work with gets fired!) and im sooo tired of hearing these mouths going off about nothing!
As far as New York Goes To Work, I think they should have done the show in a way to get more involvement from the viewing audience. Its pretty cool to have people vote for what job they want to see her do, but they is no incentive to do so other than entertainment. Why should I as a viewer care if SHE gets $10,000 for successfully performing a job. I would have set up the show so that if she is successful at the job, then like 5 people who voted for her to do that job could each win $10,000 themselves as well. Now the viewers care about voting.
i think this whole topic is funny. it’s talking about the dicline in “quality” of a VH1 reality show. that’s like talking about the decline in quality of McDonald’s food, Hyundai, Payless shoe products, ect. VH1 reality shows have never been about quality anyway. However, i remember reading about how studies have shown where black children on average in america watch more tv than any other races. so the theory of success being linked to black viewers seems accurate. It’s also backed up by the success of Flavor of Love being the first to launch these shows anyway.
also, i want to add to my statement concerning black people and tv. it should be observed that when it comes to tv there are very few options. thus when shows come out that target/appeal to african americans the numbers tend to be concentrated and thus higher. outside of bet, which many black people still don’t get outside of urban markets, there is very little. white people have the luxury of EVERY cable and tv station with the exception of BET and Telemundo catering to their various interests. so the ability to pick and choose leaves channels like VH1 finding greater success with african american markets even with trashy low quality shows.
this is random but did anyon know that Dallas from ROL and Rock of Love Charm School is in a wendy’s commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZfqBuv7roU
Did anyone see the Youtube duel going on between Raven Masterson from Rock of Love and Charm School 2. It got so crazy that Youtube had to suspend her account. She was ranting about how men were the scum of the earth and that if she had a kid (and it was a boy) that she would abort it. A lot of men chimed in and tore her up for the ghettogaggers thing she did.
Think of all the potential little boys that died on her face. I guess that counts.
That’s basically what they said to her. It was hilarious. The video that she posted was titled I HATE MEN and she received many responses for it. It was an instant classic. That chick is messed up in the head. The sick thing is that she had many followers supporting her topics.
Is it terrible that she reminds me of Bjork? A talentless, feminazi, ghetto gagging, asshole-ish version of Bjork? She’s more deserving of the insane fan who’s going to mail her a bomb and kill himself in her name.
you guys are hating one her. however, i can’t help but feel sorry for her. i chatted with her on one of her many webpages. she basically cursed me out before i got dialogue going. but i still just feel pity. she must have alot of troubles going on to be so angry and make the terrible decisions she does.
How am I hating? She said a lot of things out of line and I’m not going to kiss her ass because I’m afraid of what she has to say. I said my piece to her and she kept repeating the same tired old stuff. Her bark is weak when you listen to content. If you agree with her then you’re just as jaded………..
I’m a black female and I’m watching DOL and CS3. I think Daisy isn’t getting rating b/c people aren’t giving the show a chance. I happened to start watching by reading Rich’s blog about the episode when they formed bands and made a song. I was reading and I’m like this sounds too crazy, I have to see this. After watching, I really like the show. It has everything trash reality TV is supposed to have- dumb, crazy characters that you just can’t turn away from. I think if more people gave it a chance and saw how funny the show is, it would do better. Seriously, just watch episode 3(the best one IMO) and tell me you don’t like this show.
As for CS3, I’m so pissed about the show. It’s sooo predictable and the editing is terrible. I feel like they’re trying to manipulate me into believing stuff that doesn’t even makes sense. I’m still watching but I’m really disappointed. And it hurts that some of the most contoversial people went home so early.
As for NY, even I have my limits of crap that I’ll watch. The show doesn’t interest me at all.
I think that NY should have her own talk show where she’ll have guests from eliminated and controversal contestants from VH1 shows. her guests will talk ish about people, try to solve(instigate) problems and stuff.
and why doesnt KO understand the word instigate?
Ive been thinking about this, and I really think Vh1 should remodel their entire channel.
VhNEW.
New line-ups, new ideas, new everything!
They should really scrap all these ‘of love’ shows and focus on something new.
They should try and get more shows about musicians and their lifes. More shows like Tough Love & Brooke Knows Best would work too. We really just need the vh1 that was more centered around actual celebs, and not these CELEBREALITY retards.