Subashni, as far as the nonfandoms are concerned, the actors and the PH are safe from blame about the flop-tracks.
The tracks have been very similar in the negativity - and never showing the couple unitedly effective, and always showing the male lead as weak/bad/unilaterally worshipful of his wife - before and after the PH-split.
The common factor for track-decisionmaking before and after was the channel, with a pattern that they avoid for their other serials.
Most of the accredited press knows most things that go on behind scenes, even if they don't publish some stuff or publish something other than for varying reasons. And TV entertainment is a scenario where they can usually use a free hand about gossip. Whatever general nonexcessive stuff they might claim about leads, the other channels and PHs know the facts, and the majority-audience who may read the claims of debatable accuracy/veracity won't care enough to react by not watching that actor's work.
And if the CVs were making this show intent on only getting fandoms and not mass-audience, we would probably have been seeing far fewer or no commercial ads for the episodes.
The viewership would simply not potentially be massive enough for the sponsors, since we have individually highly paid (deservedly so) lead actors, not a series full of relatively inexpensive non-leads, to make not enough millions of viewers watching here on primetime an acceptable situation in the context.
Only fandoms and online audience usually know the PH, writers, directors, actors etc names from the outset.
Majority-audience doesn't generally overwhelmingly know a PH or actor/actress's name for a few years. If it sticks around for a few years and gets great TRP, the chances are better that the names will be known at least then.
But the faces and characters are remembered rather sooner, and the channel. The actors are not assumed to be writing the story.
And channels awards-events showcasing all their serials and actors have been known for many years, so that the link of serial (and its tracks) is that it is so-and-so channel's show.
The track-fails of this series - and the way each next track had to start off without pushing the previous track's mass-appalling point - have been sufficiently visible for more than a year, that neither the PH's current people nor the lead actors will get blamed by other PHs or channels for every consecutive track flopping by being mass-unappealing.
The channel on the other hand, has not only had its viewership average come into competition with a subsidiary channel, it's also had a change of ownership during this unfortunate time.
But I totally agree that it's just a matter of time until waiting for DVD to take their next serials, and simply counting time through the episodes until then. :(
If the story suddenly becomes acceptable and appealing, it would be a miracle - and we could all celebrate what is actually most extremely unlikely. :)
Edited by leelaa9 - 11 years ago
