DAILY ROUNDUP TRANSCRIP 7/8
You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality. Steve Podcast, I’m your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in on this Tuesday. We’ve got your Bachelor in Paradise episode one Review. My thoughts, my recap. I’ve got a lot of thoughts on what we saw last night and there’s so many things to go over within that.
I wanna talk about the season as a whole, when it’s going to end, will it ever end with these three hour episodes, ratings? The things I liked about the show, the good, the bad, and the ugly from last night. I definitely want to talk about some things. Obviously the trailer for the season, the first time we’ve seen the trailer, they now have shown that $500,000 is up in the air this season.
But we don’t necessarily know exactly how it’s shown, I’m sure, or how it’s played out. I’m sure I will find out sometime before the season ends and we’ll get to all that momentarily. So I wanna start here and talk about. The show because I, somebody from the show that I follow on Instagram, you follow any of the contestants?
They’re all posting about people tagging them and watching it and whatnot. But one of ’em that I was following yesterday, I can’t remember who it was, I just remember them saying something to the effect of, bachelor in Paradise starts tonight. Enjoy the journey for the next 10 weeks. And I was like. Wait, is this show really going 10 weeks?
And then I looked at a calendar. If you go 10 Mondays from last night, the 10th Monday would be September 8th, and I can tell you right now the finale is not September 8th because September 8th is the first Monday night football game of the season. That’s being simulcast on both ESPN and a BC. I really don’t think Bachelor in Paradise is gonna go a whole season with Monday episodes.
And then the 10th episode they’re gonna put on a Tuesday night. So 10 weeks could mean 10 episodes. ’cause we know next week has two episodes. But then if that’s the case, then is finale night going to air on September 1st, which is Labor Day. So I guess right now we don’t know the answer, is what I’m saying.
Yeah, because if it ends on the first, that’s Labor Day. I, I can’t imagine you would end this show on a holiday. They’ve aired episodes on Labor Day before, but I don’t think the finale has ever aired on Labor Day. And then you can’t air it the eighth because A, B, C, the channel isn’t even available that night.
’cause they’re airing the first Monday night football game of the season. So, which is, I believe is Vikings Bears. So. When is this show ending? I guess the answer is we don’t know. Is it 10 weeks or is it 10 episodes? I guess we’ll find out as we get closer to the end of the season and I will obviously let you know as soon as something is announced.
We just know next week. Monday’s episode is definitely three hours if you go to your guide for next week, I went ahead a week and looked at my guide, seven to 10 Central time next Monday night. And then next Tuesday night is a two hour episode. That’s when the goldens come in. And then I believe we’re regular, we’re back to two hour episodes on Monday nights.
I, I can’t imagine every episode. This season’s gonna be three hours. There’s no way. ’cause last night was, well, we’ll get to last night when I start covering it. Okay, now I do wanna talk about ratings for this show. Because while they took last season off and now they’re back this season with clearly all new cameras, a whole new resort, a whole new look to it, a whole new feel.
There’s air conditioning, like it just looks better. It looks like a streaming show. Whether you wanna say it looks like too hot to handle, or whether it looks like love island, whatever. It’s now on the level visually as the other shows that have been kicking its ass in terms of eyeballs. So they had to do something.
I think it looks great visually on camera. A lot of drone shots. Tons of drone shots, which adds to it. But. I could tell you right now if you’re expecting this giant jump in ratings because it took off a year and it looks better, you’re just not gonna get it. And it’s not because the show isn’t any good.
I mean, yeah, some people don’t think the show is any good, and that’s fine, but the ratings aren’t just all of a sudden going to skyrocket because of this new look. For two reasons, number one. It’s a network television show versus streaming, which is where Love Island is. It a network show just isn’t gonna get as much traction as a streaming show.
Network television shows on any network across the board have been going down for years now because streaming is starting to take over. So it’s not gonna come close to beating Love Island. It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges. Love island is on six days a week. This is on once a week, so it’s kind of hard to compare it.
It’s like, what are we comparing Just the Monday episode. I mean, if you, if you were to compare Love Island’s ratings to Bachelor Paradise ratings, you would just have to find out what last night’s episode of Love Island did versus last night’s episode of Paradise, not What Love Island is doing in downloads and minutes watched in a particular week or month.
You just can’t compare the two. The other thing is, and this is I think the bigger thing as to why Bachelor in Paradise is just never going to beat Love Island, and that is the live aspect, quote unquote, versus the taped aspect. Because Bachelor in Paradise filmed two months ago, filmed basically during the month of May.
I think it was May, May 3rd to the 25th, 26th, something like that. Maybe a little bit earlier. Three, it’s about, it was about three weeks of filming. But
not saying that Love Island isn’t is live. It’s not live, but it’s just like Big Brother. It’s about as close to live as you can get. Big brother’s actually live on Thursday nights for the eviction. But what you’re seeing on Wednesday, or what you’re seeing on this Thursday on the Premier of Big Brother is what’s filmed today and tomorrow.
And what you see on Sunday was basically filmed Friday and Saturday, so they’re only a two day lag time. Bachelor in Paradise is a two month lag time. That makes a big deal. I think that adds, and look, I’m not watching Love Island, I just know how it works in terms of the filming. I think that aspect that they turn it around so quick and America can participate by doing votes and stuff like that.
That helps the show and the Bachelor franchise is never going to do that. They’re never going to turn their show into something. They turn around in two days. It’s just, it’s just not the show. Love Island is a different show. While it involves dating and stuff like that, it’s still a different franchise and a different show.
And I think the fact that it is got this about as close to live element as you can get to it is why it does so well, and it’s on streaming so. I wouldn’t get too bent outta shape about whatever ratings last night’s Bachelor in Paradise brings us. So just wanted to throw that out there. So I wanna start with some like good, bad, and ugly.
The Good from Last Night’s show. I think the winner of last night’s show is just the look of it. It looks so much better than it did for nine Seasons. New Show Runner Scott Teddy came in, came from Summer House, came from Claim to Fame. He also was involved in one of the 90 day fiance shows. Clearly very well-versed in the reality TV dating world, and.
The cameras that they brought in for this, just make it look better. I mean, maybe you’ve forgotten what it looked like for nine seasons, but I don’t know. Go on YouTube and go back and watch, you know, the first 10 minutes of Season nine of Bachelor Paradise and compare it to the first 10 minutes of this season.
It’s just, it’s almost a different show completely in the way it’s filmed and the way it looks.
You add in how much music is playing during the show? I don’t remember so much music being played during the first nine seasons of Paradise. People talking. People coming in the slow motion shots, the drone shots. Music constantly playing. Like there is a lot of music that played in last night’s episode and like not just background music, I’m talking about musics that had lyrics, which is how these other dating shows work.
Love Island, same thing. Two hot to handle. Same thing like this is they’re trying to at least compete with them. They’re never gonna beat them ratings wise for everything that I just mentioned, but at least they’re trying and they’re doing a better job than they did for nine seasons. I will say that, take a quick break to talk to you about Zocdoc.
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