Mark Burnett leaving MGM

[Bob Jersey]

Expected given two other high-ranking execs have already left...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mark-burnett-exit-mgm-tv-1235137806/ (link)

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[Mark Jeffries]

Perhaps those incriminating "Apprentice" outtakes will now see the light of day.

As the link states, the main problem with Burnett at MGM was that he was unable to come up with anything as successful as his previous shows--and he had no interest in the scripted prestige shows.  More importantly, all of his other shows that came to MGM have other owners involved--because they were all formats created by others ("Apprentice"--and his first show for Discovery, "Eco-Challenge"--were the only hits that he created--and of course, Trump owns part of "Apprentice").  His other main interests were all those Biblical-themed scripted shows he was doing for cable and the Light TV subchannel of family programming--the former shows didn't bring in the numbers or got lost in cable's removal from scripted as streaming came along and he ended up selling Light to Byron Allen--it's now Grio, competing with Scripps' Bounce for Black audiences.

Mark Jeffries
spotl...@gmail.com

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