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Post by cacosa on Mar 8, 2015 10:58:40 GMT -5
Agreed. Altho I have a feeling we will only get interviews from Austin Basis, Brad Kern & Stu Gillard. Nothing from our leads if I had to guess. If I was CW & I recognized the chemistry between Jay & Kk I would be capitalizing on that and having them do interviews together a lot more. Honestly what is the last new interview we got of Jay & Kk together for promo for the show? And I don't remember what the last seperate interviews were either. I kno KK did a brief interview right before Love Letters and her Canadian reads things, and I think one interview for S3, but that's it I think. Nothing from Jay period, minimal from KK & Nina. Honestly the shows best promotion is the beasties. i think we will not get an interview from stu gillard,he is a director not an EP. austin ,brad kern and kk .(i dont see jay doing interviews ) also what happened to SHERRI COOPER and JENNIFER LEVIN??? I thought that Stu has been producing all episodes of the second season, besides directing some.
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Post by pippin on Mar 8, 2015 13:15:37 GMT -5
While I understand the potential for the argument about killing off a main character, I would say that would definitely kill the show. Why invest in a show about a couple if you are told one of the pair will be killed off? I feel I am downright emotionally involved in loving the core pairing of VinCat on BATB. So what would be the point for viewers like myself, particularly when a show has a Fairy Tale name, to watch something that DOESN'T have the Happily Ever After? Granted, several shows have benefitted, ratings-wise, by killing off certain characters. Look at "The Good Wife," "Game of Thrones," and "Bones." However, "The Good Wife" is about Alicia's journey, and no one was ever promised a happy Will/Alicia ending. That said, I haven't wanted to see that show after Will's death because I DID watch for the Alicia/Will pairing. As to the other shows, there is not just one main couple that everyone tunes in for, and deaths are expected and basically part of the plot for "Game of Thrones." Since the show (both then and now) was/is supposed to be about a fairy tale romance between the main core pairing, how would anyone expect to retain an audience if the whole draw/purpose of the series becomes nonexistent? Showing how the main leads are threatened by outside sources challenges the love relationship BUT allows the audience to enjoy how the couple turns towards one another as a result. Can really amp up the romance, in my opinion. Shows featuring a main couple HAVE survived for several years on television (think "Mad About You") so it CAN be done. Particularly as alliances are formed, etc. However, many shows HAVE failed to find ways to keep the audience interested, ESPECIALLY if they change the show drastically from season to season (think "Dark Angel"--this is the original show about the genetically-altered soldier who tries to hide from the organization that created her. Season 2 was founded on a COMPLETELY different direction, which resulted in a major loss of viewers, particularly as the showrunners deliberately kept the main couple apart as a result of a genetically engineered virus.) "Fringe" and "The Blacklist" are examples of how the showrunners found ingenious ways to constantly thwart a couple or pairing or challenge said main characters AND keep the audience interested. Both of these shows have elements that would TOTALLY work for BATB. Once again, I wasn't advocating that they try to continue the show without both of them, not even a single episode. I realize the show is called Beauty and the Beast and that the fairytale source has a happy ending, but because this show was based on the CBS series in which Catherine Chandler was killed and this version was trying to be gritty, graphic novel like, I didn't assume anything about how the show would end. In fact I wouldn't have been surprised if they opted to go with a sad ending. At the very least, I thought they could have used the fact that Catherine died in the previous version to create some suspense about the couple's ultimate fate, and was rather surprised when Kern came right out and said, "You'll never see Vincent or Cat die." Of course, one of them could still "die." I don't think a show like "Mad About You" is comparable. It was a sitcom and started with the main couple already together. There's a reason fairytales and romcoms end when the couple get together and most shows built around a couple's romance keep them apart for as long as possible. There have been shows like McMillon and Wife and Hart to Hart, but those were procedurals and this show already failed at trying to be a procedural. Season 1 blew through storylines with some bad decisions that drove off viewers, and unfortunately putting VinCat together so quickly seemed to have backfired. Season 1 lost 1.5 million viewers from its pilot episode to Never Turn Back and almost half a million of those viewers were lost over the last 7 episodes when it was VinCat in love, together and against the world. If season 1 hadn't lost so many viewers, I don't think Kern would have been brought in. Interesting. So if the producers of BatB had said that Catherine and Vincent were destined to love each other but maybe maybe weren't necessarily destined to end up together, would you not have started watching the show or would you only watch once the show was over and were told that it ended happily? The answer is yes ! because i don't waste my time on sad stories ! real life is full of sadness and tragedies ! so why i would torture myself by watching them on TV too ? it called Entertainment industry for a reason ! i know that may sound shallow ( which i don't completely deny btw) but i watch TV to relax and to entertain myself ! so i avoid tragedy as possible ! if i am on depression mode and want to watch sad tragedies i simply turn the TV on the news channels ! That seems valid to me. Obviously people watch what they watch for a variety of reasons. While I expect a comedy to be funny, I don't necessarily expect happy endings with dramas. Sometimes I'm actually more intrigued when I know a show doesn't end happily.
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Post by pippin on Mar 8, 2015 13:37:48 GMT -5
Again, not suggesting that they continue the show without one of them. I'm saying that at the very end, last episode in the entire series, one of them would die. If Catherine dies, Vincent could be so consumed with grief that he wouldn't be able to change back into his human form anymore and he would go to live in the tunnels or if Vincent dies, Catherine would be left alone with their baby and the last shot could be of the baby with its eyes glowing. Or how about they both die and then JT takes their slightly strange looking baby Vincent, jr, and goes to live in the tunnels. How depressing. There is NO WAY this story is going to have anything other than a happy ending. It's a modern day fairytale afterall. The only way anyone is dying is if in the final scene of the final season, Vincent dies on the operating table, only to come back to life, no longer a beast, thereby allowing him to be the 'prince' of the original story, leaving the beast behind as a mere memory.
I recently watched all four seasons of 'Prison Break' with Wentworth Miller, not knowing the ending. I actually loved it but when it came to the final scenes and I realised the main character died, leaving his wife and unborn son behind, I sobbed my heart out and went into a deep depression that lasted days. I even found myself watching the ending again, like some sort of madwoman, hoping I was mistaken and that it would change to a happy one. I could not cope if my beloved BATB had a similar ending. This has to have the 'happily ever after' as they deserve it after everything they have been through. And we deserve it too!!!
Had no idea that's how Prison Break ended. I only watched sporadically and stopped when they ended up in that second or third prison. I might actually go back and see how the show ended up there now.
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Post by pippin on Mar 8, 2015 15:14:26 GMT -5
You would think so I just don't understand the lack of promotion for season 3 even though we're only in March and why none of the cast are goings to WonderCon it just doesn't make any sense to me it's like the CW doesn't want to attract more viwers . According to this interview with Kern, www.tvguide.com/news/beauty-beast-finale-1084001/ you are correct, the CW has given up trying to attract more viewers. Last year, according to Kern, the network was still trying to broaden the show's appeal. So last season, we got the storyline we got, they did Comic-com, New York Con, hired the social media person, hosted the press on the set for cast interviews, KK did the Global, Showcase, Arts Network interviews and others, Jay did WPIX, the cast spoke excitedly about the show's new creative people, direction, look, storylines, etc and they opened with a .3 rating and that's basically where they stayed. KK did all those interviews in support of the show's summer return and they managed to get over a million people to tune if for the first time in Season 2, but some 200,000 fewer people tuned into the following episode, even though I thought Beast is the New Black was the strongest episode of the season save for the silly scene of them in the shower with their clothes on. Now that they've given up trying to enlarge the audience, I'm not expecting much promotion, plus promotion costs money. Anyone know how these cons work? Does the studio have to pay Wondercon to have a panel? Even if they don't, someone still has to pay to fly the stars there and put them up. If Jay is in New Zealand, that's probably not cheap especially if he requires first class air fare. And for all we know, maybe neither Jay or Kristin was interested in doing Wondercon. cw goal right now is to make money from this by reaching this to the syndication.(with season 4 no of eps will be 70) also at the end of the april we may start getting something. my guess pr will be: 1 promo 2 sneak peeks 3 interview from cast/EP. Agreed. Altho I have a feeling we will only get interviews from Austin Basis, Brad Kern & Stu Gillard. Nothing from our leads if I had to guess. If I was CW & I recognized the chemistry between Jay & Kk I would be capitalizing on that and having them do interviews together a lot more. Honestly what is the last new interview we got of Jay & Kk together for promo for the show? And I don't remember what the last seperate interviews were either. I kno KK did a brief interview right before Love Letters and her Canadian reads things, and I think one interview for S3, but that's it I think. Nothing from Jay period, minimal from KK & Nina. Honestly the shows best promotion is the beasties. Considering that KK and JR only took one photo together during the shooting of season 3, that we saw, for all we know, they don't want to do any interviews together or maybe Jay just doesn't want to do any. October 2013 was the last time he did any promotion for the show. You can't blame the studio or the network if one of the stars is refusing to do interviews. Hopefully the fact that they will be shooting season 4 when season 3 starts airing will mean they can invite some media up there to cover the show and do interviews. i think we will not get an interview from stu gillard,he is a director not an EP. austin ,brad kern and kk .(i dont see jay doing interviews ) also what happened to SHERRI COOPER and JENNIFER LEVIN??? They are not really involved anymore I don't think Supposedly they are consultants but I doubt there is any involvement Cooper and Levin are working on the resurrected Unforgettable.
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Post by anapi -season3baby :) on Mar 8, 2015 15:43:53 GMT -5
You would think so I just don't understand the lack of promotion for season 3 even though we're only in March and why none of the cast are goings to WonderCon it just doesn't make any sense to me it's like the CW doesn't want to attract more viwers . According to this interview with Kern, www.tvguide.com/news/beauty-beast-finale-1084001/ you are correct, the CW has given up trying to attract more viewers. Last year, according to Kern, the network was still trying to broaden the show's appeal. So last season, we got the storyline we got, they did Comic-com, New York Con, hired the social media person, hosted the press on the set for cast interviews, KK did the Global, Showcase, Arts Network interviews and others, Jay did WPIX, the cast spoke excitedly about the show's new creative people, direction, look, storylines, etc and they opened with a .3 rating and that's basically where they stayed. KK did all those interviews in support of the show's summer return and they managed to get over a million people to tune if for the first time in Season 2, but some 200,000 fewer people tuned into the following episode, even though I thought Beast is the New Black was the strongest episode of the season save for the silly scene of them in the shower with their clothes on. Now that they've given up trying to enlarge the audience, I'm not expecting much promotion, plus promotion costs money. Anyone know how these cons work? Does the studio have to pay Wondercon to have a panel? Even if they don't, someone still has to pay to fly the stars there and put them up. If Jay is in New Zealand, that's probably not cheap especially if he requires first class air fare. And for all we know, maybe neither Jay or Kristin was interested in doing Wondercon. Agreed. Altho I have a feeling we will only get interviews from Austin Basis, Brad Kern & Stu Gillard. Nothing from our leads if I had to guess. If I was CW & I recognized the chemistry between Jay & Kk I would be capitalizing on that and having them do interviews together a lot more. Honestly what is the last new interview we got of Jay & Kk together for promo for the show? And I don't remember what the last seperate interviews were either. I kno KK did a brief interview right before Love Letters and her Canadian reads things, and I think one interview for S3, but that's it I think. Nothing from Jay period, minimal from KK & Nina. Honestly the shows best promotion is the beasties. Considering that KK and JR only took one photo together during the shooting of season 3, that we saw, for all we know, they don't want to do any interviews together or maybe Jay just doesn't want to do any. October 2013 was the last time he did any promotion for the show. You can't blame the studio or the network if one of the stars is refusing to do interviews. Hopefully the fact that they will be shooting season 4 when season 3 starts airing will mean they can invite some media up there to cover the show and do interviews. They are not really involved anymore I don't think Supposedly they are consultants but I doubt there is any involvement Cooper and Levin are working on the resurrected Unforgettable. my understanding is they can only take a certain number of shows in these type of events, hence they would only choose the ones they want to promote regarding previous promotion yes they did a few things before season 2 aired but really, not that much! one of the key things u need to do to introduce new viewers is to include trailers etc in key timeslots etc etc and my understanding is there was very little such promotion last year from what people were saying about seeing no trailers or anything. i still do think the show could do better, maybe around 0.5 or 0.6 with more clever promotion of sorts. so many people on twitter or facebook keep saying i thought the show was cancelled after season 1. i also think it is foolish of the network to assume that with no promotion at all adn with people not even knowing the show is coming back we are definitely gonna even hit the 0.3! i personally think that they could promote more even through showing the trailer often in some of their major shows like flash etc but again, i seriously doubt they actually will.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 17:42:49 GMT -5
You make me very upset with all these informations about no promotion in public event. I read a lot of AB interviews about S2 so at least some articles and videos were made. I don't know if the lack of interviews of JR and KK is 100% a Cw choice or actors choice, in a way I could understand if they don't want to do interview togather anymore. Now I would be happy even with a simple Q&A answered by email... that would be not so expensive I think...
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Post by anapi -season3baby :) on Mar 8, 2015 18:11:19 GMT -5
i dont think we can assume jay has refused to do interviews...could he even do that? sure, he prefers to avoid them it is clear - if he can. but if the network wants him to do lots of promo then he will have to... it would be part of his contract. so ultimately it is down to the network IMO network wanted jay to be on twitter which as he said was not hsi type of thing. clearly network isnt bothered anymore about that, but if they were i guess jay would have to be more active on twitter..yes, of course actors can choose to be very active (like austin has with his activity on twitter and his participation in small magazine/radio interviews whenever he is asked) but if the network does want to promote and wants their actors to be promoting more, well they will.
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Post by pippin on Mar 8, 2015 20:32:08 GMT -5
According to this interview with Kern, www.tvguide.com/news/beauty-beast-finale-1084001/ you are correct, the CW has given up trying to attract more viewers. Last year, according to Kern, the network was still trying to broaden the show's appeal. So last season, we got the storyline we got, they did Comic-com, New York Con, hired the social media person, hosted the press on the set for cast interviews, KK did the Global, Showcase, Arts Network interviews and others, Jay did WPIX, the cast spoke excitedly about the show's new creative people, direction, look, storylines, etc and they opened with a .3 rating and that's basically where they stayed. KK did all those interviews in support of the show's summer return and they managed to get over a million people to tune if for the first time in Season 2, but some 200,000 fewer people tuned into the following episode, even though I thought Beast is the New Black was the strongest episode of the season save for the silly scene of them in the shower with their clothes on. Now that they've given up trying to enlarge the audience, I'm not expecting much promotion, plus promotion costs money. Anyone know how these cons work? Does the studio have to pay Wondercon to have a panel? Even if they don't, someone still has to pay to fly the stars there and put them up. If Jay is in New Zealand, that's probably not cheap especially if he requires first class air fare. And for all we know, maybe neither Jay or Kristin was interested in doing Wondercon. Considering that KK and JR only took one photo together during the shooting of season 3, that we saw, for all we know, they don't want to do any interviews together or maybe Jay just doesn't want to do any. October 2013 was the last time he did any promotion for the show. You can't blame the studio or the network if one of the stars is refusing to do interviews. Hopefully the fact that they will be shooting season 4 when season 3 starts airing will mean they can invite some media up there to cover the show and do interviews. Cooper and Levin are working on the resurrected Unforgettable. my understanding is they can only take a certain number of shows in these type of events, hence they would only choose the ones they want to promote regarding previous promotion yes they did a few things before season 2 aired but really, not that much! one of the key things u need to do to introduce new viewers is to include trailers etc in key timeslots etc etc and my understanding is there was very little such promotion last year from what people were saying about seeing no trailers or anything. i still do think the show could do better, maybe around 0.5 or 0.6 with more clever promotion of sorts. so many people on twitter or facebook keep saying i thought the show was cancelled after season 1. i also think it is foolish of the network to assume that with no promotion at all adn with people not even knowing the show is coming back we are definitely gonna even hit the 0.3! i personally think that they could promote more even through showing the trailer often in some of their major shows like flash etc but again, i seriously doubt they actually will. Yes, they could get more people to watch if they did a lot of promotion for the show, but that costs money and in the end, what would it get them. Season 1 Beauty started out with strong numbers for a CW show but they couldn't hang onto the viewers. They had a mini-second chance when they won their first PCA, but that Alex arc seemed to kill the show for a lot of people. In season 1, the show was already down to a 0.5 behind Vampire Diaries when VD was still drawing a 1.0 rating or better. I think the network hoped that the show had a loyal enough audience that it would retain that rating when they moved it to Monday, but obviously that wasn't the case. I think that's why they didn't dare move Reign in its second season because they saw what happened with Beauty's ratings. But since the show has been renewed already, US Nielsen ratings obviously didn't factor into that decision. I also don't know that advertising within other CW shows will help much. I think the CW audience has already made up its mind about the show. Plus if they use a 30-second ad spot on the Flash to promote Beauty, that's some $60k they can't actually sell to an outside advertiser. Last season, Beauty's ad rate was less than half of what it was in season 1, down to around $20,000 and that might have been the rate when advertiser thought it could pull a 0.4. So if US Nielsen's don't make a difference in this show's survival, why would the network give away $60k in sales to promote something that might only bring in $20k in sales.
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Post by pippin on Mar 8, 2015 21:22:10 GMT -5
i dont think we can assume jay has refused to do interviews...could he even do that? sure, he prefers to avoid them it is clear - if he can. but if the network wants him to do lots of promo then he will have to... it would be part of his contract. so ultimately it is down to the network IMO network wanted jay to be on twitter which as he said was not hsi type of thing. clearly network isnt bothered anymore about that, but if they were i guess jay would have to be more active on twitter..yes, of course actors can choose to be very active (like austin has with his activity on twitter and his participation in small magazine/radio interviews whenever he is asked) but if the network does want to promote and wants their actors to be promoting more, well they will. The actors probably wouldn't dare refuse to do certain things the first season even if they could, but if you are the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, by the second season, what's the studio going to do. I'm not sure Tom Welling did any interviews for Smallville between its 4th and 10th season. He only went to SanDiego Comic-con the last two seasons once he was named one of the show's EPs. Not sure if that was written into his contract when they got him to sign on for season 9 and 10 or if he saw the financial benefit of going once he was an EP. KK never went to Comic-con for Sville and said in a 2008 interview that she had stopped doing interviews for the show for a while. I'm also not sure how much a studio or network can require an actor to do, especially if its on their own time. Outside of the first season and all that goes into launching a new show and maybe SDCC, the actors are union employees so it could be that unless someone is willing to pay them, any promotion they do is voluntary. Per SAG or AFTRA agreements, they probably limit how much uncompensated promotion an actor is required to do. But Austin, KK and Nina all did interviews though so, I imagine that there were requests for interviews with Jay too. Why wouldn't there have been?
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Post by anapi -season3baby :) on Mar 9, 2015 0:29:01 GMT -5
i dont think we can assume jay has refused to do interviews...could he even do that? sure, he prefers to avoid them it is clear - if he can. but if the network wants him to do lots of promo then he will have to... it would be part of his contract. so ultimately it is down to the network IMO network wanted jay to be on twitter which as he said was not hsi type of thing. clearly network isnt bothered anymore about that, but if they were i guess jay would have to be more active on twitter..yes, of course actors can choose to be very active (like austin has with his activity on twitter and his participation in small magazine/radio interviews whenever he is asked) but if the network does want to promote and wants their actors to be promoting more, well they will. The actors probably wouldn't dare refuse to do certain things the first season even if they could, but if you are the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, by the second season, what's the studio going to do. I'm not sure Tom Welling did any interviews for Smallville between its 4th and 10th season. He only went to SanDiego Comic-con the last two seasons once he was named one of the show's EPs. Not sure if that was written into his contract when they got him to sign on for season 9 and 10 or if he saw the financial benefit of going once he was an EP. KK never went to Comic-con for Sville and said in a 2008 interview that she had stopped doing interviews for the show for a while. I'm also not sure how much a studio or network can require an actor to do, especially if its on their own time. Outside of the first season and all that goes into launching a new show and maybe SDCC, the actors are union employees so it could be that unless someone is willing to pay them, any promotion they do is voluntary. Per SAG or AFTRA agreements, they probably limit how much uncompensated promotion an actor is required to do. But Austin, KK and Nina all did interviews though so, I imagine that there were requests for interviews with Jay too. Why wouldn't there have been? I guess we will not find out but I just find it hard to believe that jay would refuse to do interviews if he was expecyed to. But maybe if kk does interviews in s3 and we get nothing at all from jay I will start thinking that this may be a good possibility.
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Post by anapi -season3baby :) on Mar 9, 2015 0:35:52 GMT -5
my understanding is they can only take a certain number of shows in these type of events, hence they would only choose the ones they want to promote regarding previous promotion yes they did a few things before season 2 aired but really, not that much! one of the key things u need to do to introduce new viewers is to include trailers etc in key timeslots etc etc and my understanding is there was very little such promotion last year from what people were saying about seeing no trailers or anything. i still do think the show could do better, maybe around 0.5 or 0.6 with more clever promotion of sorts. so many people on twitter or facebook keep saying i thought the show was cancelled after season 1. i also think it is foolish of the network to assume that with no promotion at all adn with people not even knowing the show is coming back we are definitely gonna even hit the 0.3! i personally think that they could promote more even through showing the trailer often in some of their major shows like flash etc but again, i seriously doubt they actually will. Yes, they could get more people to watch if they did a lot of promotion for the show, but that costs money and in the end, what would it get them. Season 1 Beauty started out with strong numbers for a CW show but they couldn't hang onto the viewers. They had a mini-second chance when they won their first PCA, but that Alex arc seemed to kill the show for a lot of people. In season 1, the show was already down to a 0.5 behind Vampire Diaries when VD was still drawing a 1.0 rating or better. I think the network hoped that the show had a loyal enough audience that it would retain that rating when they moved it to Monday, but obviously that wasn't the case. I think that's why they didn't dare move Reign in its second season because they saw what happened with Beauty's ratings. But since the show has been renewed already, US Nielsen ratings obviously didn't factor into that decision. I also don't know that advertising within other CW shows will help much. I think the CW audience has already made up its mind about the show. Plus if they use a 30-second ad spot on the Flash to promote Beauty, that's some $60k they can't actually sell to an outside advertiser. Last season, Beauty's ad rate was less than half of what it was in season 1, down to around $20,000 and that might have been the rate when advertiser thought it could pull a 0.4. So if US Nielsen's don't make a difference in this show's survival, why would the network give away $60k in sales to promote something that might only bring in $20k in sales. Yes agreed but my point is that if they had advertised better before s2 they would have possibly maintained a 0.5 at least to begin with. If they keep not promoting I just can't see how we can get over 0.2 to 0.3 in ep1. As they have renewed us for another season wouldnt it be worth it for them in the longer term to do some promotion at least to begin with? There may be short term expenses but would be worth it longer term if they got more viewers. Anyway these are just random thoughts lol I have no idea of figures or how things work
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 2:55:59 GMT -5
Maybe I'm wrong and my mind is only making a huge castle in the air... about the fact that we had AB interviews and not KK and/or JR interviews in 2014: if you think, in AB interviews we focus our attention on what he has to say about the show and we see him exactly as JT even when he is speaking about his relationship with other actors; when KK and JR make interviews (especially togather), we often continue seing KK and JR (not Cat and Vin) even when they are speaking about BATB and we focus our attention on how they behave... so it is not a great promotion for the show but only for the actors.... and CW maybe don't want that or isn't able to use that for its own purpose. just IMO.
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Post by themadpoet on Mar 9, 2015 11:13:18 GMT -5
i think we will not get an interview from stu gillard,he is a director not an EP. austin ,brad kern and kk .(i dont see jay doing interviews ) also what happened to SHERRI COOPER and JENNIFER LEVIN??? They are not really involved anymore I don't think Supposedly they are consultants but I doubt there is any involvement Yeah, I don't know the story so I will refrain from making negative judgments, but it would seem to be disappointing that one of major reasons that KK decided to do the project was because of them, and now they are no longer on it. Which impacts those secondarily effected with similar ramifications.
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Post by pippin on Mar 9, 2015 11:59:03 GMT -5
The actors probably wouldn't dare refuse to do certain things the first season even if they could, but if you are the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, by the second season, what's the studio going to do. I'm not sure Tom Welling did any interviews for Smallville between its 4th and 10th season. He only went to SanDiego Comic-con the last two seasons once he was named one of the show's EPs. Not sure if that was written into his contract when they got him to sign on for season 9 and 10 or if he saw the financial benefit of going once he was an EP. KK never went to Comic-con for Sville and said in a 2008 interview that she had stopped doing interviews for the show for a while. I'm also not sure how much a studio or network can require an actor to do, especially if its on their own time. Outside of the first season and all that goes into launching a new show and maybe SDCC, the actors are union employees so it could be that unless someone is willing to pay them, any promotion they do is voluntary. Per SAG or AFTRA agreements, they probably limit how much uncompensated promotion an actor is required to do. But Austin, KK and Nina all did interviews though so, I imagine that there were requests for interviews with Jay too. Why wouldn't there have been? I guess we will not find out but I just find it hard to believe that jay would refuse to do interviews if he was expecyed to. But maybe if kk does interviews in s3 and we get nothing at all from jay I will start thinking that this may be a good possibility. Last summer, when the show returned, KK did phone interviews with several sites such as Access Hollywood, MTV, TVLine, TV Guide, ZapIt, and TVFanatic. Austin did interviews with at least BuddyTV and Krypontonsite. Unless the press do not want to talk to Jay for some reason, I can't imagine that at least one of these eight sites wouldn't have wanted to interview Jay. Now since these interviews were done during the hiatus, maybe Jay just wasn't available when the interviews were being set up or he told the show's publicist that he was going to be on vacation. Whatever the circumstance, he was obviously absent. If they really are going to start filming season 4 around the time season 3 starts airing then hopefully everyone will be available and willing to do some interviews. Will be interesting to see.
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Post by fairydreams on Mar 9, 2015 13:19:34 GMT -5
Those interviews together (Jay & KK) used to be so funny
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