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I'm going to assume it'll show up on a different network next season, but it belongs on a network like HBO. I can't believe they'd do this. Inexplicable.
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Ensign9 wrote:
I'm going to assume it'll show up on a different network next season, but it belongs on a network like HBO. I can't believe they'd do this. Inexplicable.
I sure hope so. I loved hearing the players talk on the field, I think that really added to the show. Also, the narration. I hope it comes back next year. This is a huge mistake for HBO.
NFL Films just needs to find somebody else to partner with. Let's all hope it's not the NFL Network.
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This show was one of the few I always loved to watch as a kid. I liked it because it aired full highlights of every game, not just the marquee matchups.
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I really liked this show for some reason, even though I don't like the people on it. Costas is OK I guess, but I'm sick of him. The chemistry was good, a lot of laughs.
Anyways, I always wondered how a show like this could make $$, with all the people they have to pay.
I'd like to see one of the major networks pick it up...but they'd probably just ruin it with annoying cross promotional nonsense. I think this is destined for the NFL Network, which means I won't be seeing it any time soon.
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8. I think the demise of Inside the NFL, to the best of my knowledge, was not so much about money as it was about not being different enough anymore. That's what we, as a staff, were told by HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg and executive producer Rick Bernstein.
The 27 minutes of NFL Films highlights and feature footage we aired each week, plus the often hard-hitting features we did on the show, were unique to NFL studio shows. For example, even though the Cardinals hosted the Super Bowl this year, our Super Bowl week piece by producer Christine Wilt about how the 1925 NFL title was stolen from the rightful winners, the Pottsville Maroons, and now resides with the Cardinals had to be embarrassing to the Cardinals franchise. That's not a story most studio shows would have done, ever, and certainly not during Super Bowl week.
Though the show was different, it's hard to call any NFL studio show "unique.''
I've gained so much respect for people I didn't know very well entering the experience. There's not a more salt-of-the-earth guy in the game than Dan Marino; once you're on his team, you're family. Not satisfied with just being on the show, Cris Carter worked to become a better broadcaster. I assume the same way he worked to become a better receiver. Bob Costas worked as hard trying to make everyone else on the show look good, setting us up with the right questions he knew we could bat out of the ballpark, as he did in excelling himself.
I learned a lot from Cris Collinsworth, about former players who became great in this line of work, not just because they were polished, but because they're not afraid to speak the truth. The truth he spoke this year about the shame of Spygate and how Bill Belichick should have been suspended for it ought to be required viewing -- whether you agree with him or not -- for ex-jocks trying to make a TV go of it. (I know my family will never forget Collinsworth, on Christmas Eve 2006, excusing himself from a dinner we were hosting for the out-of-town NBC studio team members at our home. Cris went into the kitchen and washed the dishes. Not just for laughs, either. He did every last plate.)
It was great working with everyone there -- segment producers like Bentley Weiner, Bruce Cornblatt, Jason Hehir, Rahul Rohatgi and Wilt included -- and I hope the show isn't dead forever. But if someone picks up the show, it wouldn't be the same if Brian Hyland, a superb and fearless storyteller in a land of TV puffery, weren't producing it. I'm not encouraging Hyland to take a hike from HBO. I'm simply stating a fact. Thanks for the experience, HBO.
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