(15-09-2017 11:47 )babelover48 Wrote: when was the last time that S66 even dared to do anything different from the rest?
Quite an emotively phrased question but an exceptionally pertinent one.
Then, again, "different" is very subjective thing. And the eternal problem is just how different can you get within a babeshow?! It's a very restrictive format whose customer base don't traditionally do well with change (you only have to read the chatboxes and the forums - even twitter - to see that).
So what would constitute a significant depature to you? Something of marginal impact (the osg minimising for instance)? Something fairly radical that fails quite noticeably (66 USA perhaps)? Something that reinvents what has been done before and suddenly takes off (the pervcams)? Something that branches out away for the TV but is widely trounced on here (the mag)? Something that is apparently commercially successful despite coming under almost constant critism round these parts and has never been copied by any of their rivals (the tease slots)? (Btw doesn't the latter imply that there's something unique about 66's day babe heavy roster that makes it work for them specifically.)
Yes most of these may have begun a little while in the past now but I'd argue that 66's changes over recent years have actually been the most considered, tactical and progressive of all the operator's on the shows. Some have worked and some haven't but they have never given the appearance of being off-the-cuff efforts.
Change is neither good or bad inherently. On the babeshows, neither is it likely to be welcomed by freeloader and payer alike (the two parties often have very different wants).
As bw states, the addition of new babes is probably the area likely to generate most acclaim but even there no one would want their fav babe's slots threatened too much would they? And every commercially successful babe is some payer's favourite.
It must be a difficult one for the bosses. More than in most other lines of the entertainment business, the operators live on repetition - the ability for the average customer to get more of the same that he was pleased with previously. But yes they also have to show some signs of progression in order to avoid the feeling of stagnation.
Has cam2cam really taken off as yet? Are VR headsets going to be actually made to count by someone? Can the shows break free from the regulator yoke by further migration online? (Or will Ofcom simply be replaced by the new boogeyman BBFC?) Will it take a new operator with a fresh vision to really grasp these nettles? Or is three TV operators the optimum amount for a substainable cutback market place?
I'd have thought the stirring that BS are doing atm should at least be keeping the treading of water well and truly at bay for the time being though.