NBC is looking to start a new tradition.
After the success of the ambitious sound of music Live! last week attracted 18.6 million viewers, the network undertakes to pay to the staging of another family live musical production for the holidays in 2014, NBC confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
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NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt said in an interview with the New York Times that they were "circling a couple of titles" which could be staged next year, to be led by the producers of the melody of happiness Neil Meron and Craig Zadan.The only rules are that they must be conventional Broadway with a bunch of familiar songs.
"All weekend, people were us calls and sending us an e-mail," Greenblatt told the Times. "Musicals rights holders have said,"Please make one of our shows." We are delighted to try again. »
Greenblatt also confirmed that direct comedies can become an annual thing for the network come the holidays, expressing his belief that the event television is crucial for the future of the broadcast.
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'There are enough to make a handful of these years to come, if we continue to increase the learning curve', said Greenblatt. "There may be a bit of a phenomenon in the first of them. Who knows what happens two, three or four. But you gotta have happened. I think we could do it again--and again and again. »
Although the melody of happiness took 18 months to develop, Greenblatt said that the next concerts will not take nearly as long. "Now that we have done once, we still have 18 months," he said. "We know a lot about how to do.
THR indicated previously that the price to pay for the three-hour show that aired December 5 nearly 9 million $. A 22-song soundtrack featuring Carrie Underwood is available on iTunes, with an encore broadcast sometime before Christmas and a DVD/Blu-ray release on December 17.
Meron had suggested in an interview with THR that he and Zadan had high hopes for several events live TV in the future if the melody of happiness turns out to be successful. "Our hope is in the success that we open the door to another type of entertainment that may exist on television," Meron said at the time.
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