Strictly Business #14: The CONSTRUCTION of a Wrestling TV Show
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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On this SPECIAL LIVE edition of Strictly Business. Eric & Jon deconstruct RAW and Dynamite just to put it back together again for YOUR INSIGHT.
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0:09 START
2:30 Tom D Episode
3:00 Today's Topic: The CONSTRUCTION of a Wrestling TV Show
3:45 WHAT are the building blocks of a great wrestling TV Show?
6:20 HOW do you STAGGER a Wrestling show?
9:00 HOW do you keep an audience now vs the 90s?
11:30 can the A-Story be "Too Much?"
14:30 the pacing of RAW 02/13
16:15 the VALUE of a recap on TV
18:40 the 02/03 Smackdown segment by segment
22:17 02/08 Dynamite Segment by Segment
27:00 LAST NIGHT'S AEW Dynamite
29:30 Can you imagine Succession being structured like this?
32:00 The failure of the 3 man announce booth
36:05 DEFENSE of Excaliber on commentary
39:16 BREAK Jimmys Seafood
42:50 The Narrative urgency on WWE's programming
48:00 The CROSSOVER
51:46 GROWTH
52:16 LAST NGIHT'S Dynamite starting with a tag team match
55:30 MJF vs Bryan Danielson
57:38 BREAK STAMPS.com
1:01:05 Closing Dynamite with the Women
1:04:00 Does AEW NOT need to grow?
1:06:16 Wardlow dropped the ball
1:14:45 Does AEW need to grow?
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