"The rest were offered to continue as recurring with a five-episode guarantee," Deadline writes, explaining that the reduction in the series regular cast is all due to the budget of the sitcom. The series has 11 series regulars in addition to Billy and Folake, and the outlet reports that all of them will be a recurring status in the next season of the show, which will air this fall on CBS. Head inside to find out more about why the decision was made. There’s also talk that the upcoming fifth season will be the end for the series.The next season of Bob Hearts Abishola is going to look a lot different.Īccording to Deadline, many of the cast have been demoted to recurring status, save for Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku, who play the sitcom's title characters. Will that change the show’s focus? Possibly. The show’s writers will have to figure out how to deploy those characters strategically. Regarding “Bob (Hearts) Abishola” specifically, it seems like the supporting cast members will be offered recurring guest roles in at least five episodes. This upside-down approach to management of media companies’ assets is at the heart of the current writers’ strike. Media companies see themselves as managing the decline of broadcast television, even though it makes money, while throwing billions at their streaming services, which have yet to turn a profit. That was probably a mistake on the part of the showrunners because it made the show ripe for the picking off of cast members.īut the decision to gut the cast is emblematic of the sad state of prime-time broadcast TV. Rob: “Bob (Hearts) Abishola” grew to have an inordinate number of series regulars - 13 according to the CBS press site, way more than most TV comedies. I feel like we had all those characters to flesh out the tale of Bob and Abishola, but are they now going to concentrate on the basic relationship? Q: What happened with “Bob (Hearts) Abishola?” I read a report that the entire supporting cast did not have their contracts renewed but will have the option to continue on the show in a recurring capacity, appearing in fewer episodes. Discovery bosses decided the HBO name was limiting because it supposedly scared off families with children, which is why the streaming service will be known simply as Max (again, as in “lots of stuff” not at all related to Cinemax) from May 23 onward. But then the company changed hands and Warner Bros. HBO Max launched under the corporate ownership of Warner Media, which saw value in hitching its streaming service to the HBO brand. (As for the shortening of Cinemax to Max, my sense is that was a choice made by newspaper editors for TV listings and never an official edict from Cinemax, which still exists as a linear cable channel.) The reality is, Cinemax became an afterthought as a brand around 2019, before the creation of HBO Max, once Cinemax stopped programming original content. I never heard anyone at HBO Max suggest the “Max” came from Cinemax, but that it was more about the idea of “HBO and more stuff” and a way to avoid calling it HBO+. Rob: Yeah, confusion has reigned supreme over the titling of that particular streaming service given its predecessors included HBO Now (or was it HBO Go?). Does Cinemax still exist? And why would HBO use the designation formerly used to identify Cinemax for their streaming channel? It is very confusing. But now it has been rebranded as just Max. When HBO started its streaming channel HBO Max, one would assume it is a combination of both HBO and Cinemax. Q: First there was HBO, which owned Cinemax and just as Showtime went by SHO, Cinemax went by the shortened MAX. “But we would just prefer to keep our team as-is.” “If we were ever really down two, we would bring somebody in,” he said. Rob: WTAE-TV general manager Charles Wolfertz III said while the station prefers three anchors in the morning, if they’re down one, he’d rather keep the remaining team in intact rather than bring in someone from outside the core team. Why don’t they ever use a substitute anchor whenever one of the show’s three anchors is off? Q: For more than a year, WTAE-TV has used three anchors on its morning newscasts and when one of the anchors is off, they never use a substitute anchor in order to keep three people at the anchor desk at any one time.
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