Thursday, May 25, 2006
FINALLY WWE/SciFi has made the new ECW TV show official with a press release sent out today. Satrting June 13th, ECW will air on Tuesday nights at 10/9c and will be airing live when the SmackDown! tapings are on the east coast and on a tape delay when they're from the west coast.
The press release was originally scheduled to come out on Tuesday. When the trail went cold over the last two days I started to become a little concerned. But I guess that'll teach me to stop being a negative nelly!!!
I read in the Observer this week that WWE is going to make a big effort to make sure the ECW tapings look different from the SmackDown! tapings. I'm assuming they'll hang a big curtain in front of the SD! entrance and forklift the ECW smashed-out brick entrance in front of it. They're also going to light the arena in a different way. We'll have to see how it pans out.
Now here is a little gripe of mine. ECW is scheduled to go out live when the tapings are on the east coast. There's going to be a big problem if the show needs sound sweetening. If the WWE fans get bored or start to file out, it's going to look like hell on TV. The new brand could be saddled with a dead crowd and made to look something other than hot.
Also, wrestlers like Sandman, Axl Rotten, Sabu etc are going to be on live TV. Nothing personal against any of those three but they're under pressure to deliver the goods live. Blown spots at a live TV taping are out there for the world to see. There'll be no cleaning them up in the cutting room.
Anyway, I guess it's all a case of lets wait and see. ONS and June 13th can't arrive quick enough for me!!!
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