WWE TV 04/01 - 04/08: The Brazilian Military Dictatorship started in April Fools'...

[DMJ]

The WWE announced that they will have a weekly studio show on FS1 starting in the fall.

I'm hoping that they make this a E:60/Sportscenter-esque show. It doesn't even need to really break kayfabe too much. 

For example, I would've tuned in or DVR'd an episode where a respectable Fox Sports interviewer actually talked to Dean Ambrose. You don't need to use words like "heel" or "face," but question likes, "Since you came back, it seemed that you were upset with the direction of your career. Would you say that was accurate?" or "You've decided not to resign with the WWE. Why? Are you burnt out on the life of a pro-wrestler?"

The WWE Network is actually full of pretty good documentaries, like the Mark Henry one, that use euphemisms to get real points across. For example, when describing Henry's title run, most of the talking heads described him as developing a "killer instinct" and being more driven - not "He finally showed the maturity and skill level to get the monster push he was too green to get ten years earlier."

They could cover injuries and recovery, signings, do "human interest" stories, air highlights, and do sitdown interviews with relevant people (think Vince or Rousey as compared to Seth Rollins, who is important as a WWE character but isn't a genuine power player in the industry). What they need to avoid is using the show as an advertisement, insisting on their own staff of "journalists" to be a part of it (Corey Graves is already ruining enough programming), and allow for FS1 to editorialize a little. Let FS1 cover the business and athletic sides of the industry with a tacit understanding that they won't just outright complain about "the booking" or "Creative."

Again, the WWE Network is full of programming that effectively toes the line of letting us see the real people and processes of producing a pro-wrestling show without stepping over it into "Yup, there's a couple guys in charge who plan which dudes in which underwear are going to pretend to fight and which one is going to win and then you nerds and hicks eat it up."

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Basically it comes down to how hands on WWE is with this. If they let Fox do their thing and/or let their people who appear on it do their thing (like how Talking Smack was), it should be pretty good. If WWE insists on it being produced like a backstage interview segment on a FS1 set, it's going to be terrible.

[TheDuke]

It's probably going to be like the crappy weekly studio show they have  in Canada on our Sportsnet channel. It's got like former referree Jimmy Korderas, Santino Marella, and a couple other people I don't recognizing just talking about the top storylines on Raw this week, similar to the talking heads on the PPV preshows when there isn't a kickoff match going on.