15-Minute Shows May Return To TV

By JackDavidsonOLD December 9, 1999 6:01 PM

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UPN is considering reviving the 15-minute TV format with a series of slapstick-style comedies, the New York Post reported today (Thursday).?"You have to tip your hat to UPN for trying it," media analyst Tom DeCabia of Schulman/Advanswers New York told the Post.?"If [the shows] are good -- if they're content-driven -- then they'll find an audience on UPN," DeCabia said.?"It sounds like a strange concept -- one that's never been done in the current environment, but, then again, nobody thought Smack-down! was going to do as well as it has."

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Posted by ellis (ellis@geeknews.net) on December 13, 1999 9:09 AM

If no one has noticed - TV shows are only 15 minutes or less if they took all the damned commericials out. So a "15 minute show" would only have about 5-10 minutes worth of content.