Too Much TV: Your TV Talking Points For Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

Ah, I love days with lots of tech challenges...

Here's everything you need to know about the world of television for Wednesday, March 30th, 2022. 

Many of you didn't receive yesterday's newsletter. If you didn't, you can read it here. Today's newsletter is a bit late because I'm trying to figure out what happened. Hopefully, I have it fixed now.

'THE DAILY WIRE' TO POUR UP TO $100 MILLION IN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING

The conservative media web site "The Daily Caller" said on Wednesday that it plans to invest as much as $100 million into children's programming over the next three years. The content will be available to Daily Wire subscribers starting in the Spring of 2023:

“Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Boreing. “They’re tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory. But they want to do more than just cancel them. They want alternatives. The Daily Wire is giving them those alternatives.”

The Daily Wire’s plan to produce children’s content has been in the works for months. Boreing has brought on Eric Branscum and Ethan Nicolle of “VeggieTales” and the Babylon Bee to head up kids content development.

The original announcement of The Daily Wire’s kids content was slated for November 2022, however, The Daily Wire decided to move up the announcement to Wednesday because of reporting from Christopher Rufo, who revealed on Tuesday that Disney recently held a company meeting in response to Florida’s Parental Rights In Education Bill. In Rufo’s footage, employees like Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer for Disney, bragged about increasing “queerness” in their Disney content during the private, all-hands meeting. She also admitted to having a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda.” Vivian Ware, Disney’s diversity and inclusion manager, at the same meeting said that the company has been altering gendered language in its theme parks to come up with more gender-neutral terms.

It's easy to mock this idea, and honestly, I have serious doubts that The Daily Caller has $100 million to invest in anything. And I could note that The Daily Caller has already released three full-length feature films and I think it's fair to say that none of them exactly broke through into the pop culture zeitgeist.

Children's programming is also notoriously difficult to do successfully. Kids are fickle consumers and while they will watch something they love 1,000 times, creating something they love is more hit-and-miss than most people might suspect. 

More power to The Daily Caller if they can make it work, but it's quite a long shot.

READER FEEDBACK ON CNN+
In yesterday's newsletter, I asked for reader feedback on CNN+, and you did not disappoint. I received nearly 100 emails and tweets from readers giving their feedback and here are some of the highlights:

"I think you are being unfair in your criticism of CNN+. It has just launched and as you said, things will evolve as they discover what works and what doesn't. You should have patience and give them time to find their rhythm."

--Stephen S.

"I'm with you. I don't know why they don't have a live 24/7 feed. It seems as if it's something people would expect when subscribing to a news streamer. It's like launching a streamer devoted to movies and only having movie trailers available."

--Connie L.

"I've noticed a lot of complaints on social media from people who thought that subscribing to CNN+ meant they could watch CNN live. Is that a reflection of people's stupidity or bad marketing by CNN?"

--Ellis A.

"You're an idiot"

--Matthew F.

"I subscribed to CNN+ but I'm not sure if I'll keep it. There are some interesting shows. But is there enough here to justify me paying even just $3 a month? I'm not sure about that. At least not yet."

--Cyndi G

"I just don't understand the market for this. If someone doesn't have a cable package and is looking for live news, there are plenty of options available. And how many Jake Tapper superfans are there willing to pay $6 a month so they can watch him interview authors for a half-hour?"

--Andrew L.

"I like your description of CNN+ as being CNN from another universe. It feels that way. It's a lot of shows that could be on CNN, although more likely than would be airing at 10:00 am on a Saturday."

--Basil B.

"I subscribed to CNN+ as soon as I could and I think it's great."

--Steph B.

TWEET OF THE DAY

TWEET OF THE DAY, PART TWO

ODDS AND SODS
* The HBO Game Of Thrones prequel House Of The Dragon is premiering on Sunday, August 21st.

* Netflix has hired BBC Drama Commissioner Mona Queshi.

* INSP is a 24-hour-a-day general entertainment cable network, but the company is now also moving into the broadcast television station business with the acquisition of twelve television stations from Cox Media Group.

* The Game Show Network has picked up the off-network rights to 25 Words Or Less. According to Buzzer Blog, the episodes will begin airing on April 11th.

WHAT'S NEW FOR WEDNESDAY
Here's a quick rundown of all the new stuff premiering today on TV and streaming:

All Hail (Netflix)
Broken Idol: The Undoing Of Diomedes Diaz (Netflix)
Married At First Sight Australia Season Premiere (Lifetime)
Moon Knight Series Premiere (Disney+)
Queen Of Versailles Reigns Again (Discovery+)
Trust No One: The Hunt For The Crypto King (Netflix)
24 Months That Changed The World (ABC)
When We Were Bullies (HBO Max)
White Water Summer (Discovery+)
Why The Heck Did I Buy This House? Series Premiere (HGTV)
Wild Abandon (Netflix)

Click Here to see the list of all of the upcoming premiere dates for the next few months.

SEE YOU THURSDAY! 

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