Dates
Sept. 12 - Upfronts
Sept. 19 - Buzz
Sept. 26 - Week 1
Oct. 3 - Break
Oct. 10 - Week 2
Oct. 17 - Break
Oct. 24 - Week 3
Oct. 31 - Break
Nov. 7 - Week 4
Nov. 14 - Break
Nov. 21 - Week 5
Nov. 28 - Break
Dec. 5 - Week 6

Syndication Changes
Now that syndication has an actual place on TV, we are changing things up a bit.

Producers now have full control over their shows. You no longer need a network’s permission to syndicate a series. You can lease/sell/auction the rights of your eligible shows to as many/few networks as they want.

Most things will be the same. You need 10 episodes & you can’t syndicate episodes from the most previous session.
It costs 500k for a network to permanently buy the rights to a single episode.
It costs 300k for a network to secure the rights to an episode for one session.
The original rating for each episode and the average rating for every episode the network has the rights to will need to be provided by the NetHead and will factor into the ratings.

Apart from that there won’t be other regulations. A producer can offer his or her show to multiple networks or just one. Networks can pay the producer up front or work out a profit share system or a bit of both. Producers can also auction the rights off. They can also control if it will be a session-to-session deal or a one-time, all inclusive thing. Networks could even make deals like “I’ll give you one more session, but I get exclusive syndication rights.” Picking and choosing episodes will still be allowed as well.

“Cult Favorite Finds Market” will need to be reworded slightly, but will remain intact. It will now be needed every time a deal is made with the show. So if you want to sell a show with 9 episodes to two networks or to one network over two sessions, you’ll need two awards. Etc.

Shows already syndicated can be bought back by the producer for 2 million per episode and can then be used as he or she wishes. For shows that aren’t bought back, the syndication auction will continue like last session.

Here is a list of every show currently syndicated and how much it costs to buy the episodes back. Please pay "TVBank" if you wish to buy your show back.

TV Movie Changes
TV Movie stars will now be listed as regulars on the ratings sheet. If the total TS is over 10, it will count as 10. The highest star TS will be listed as the “Highest Guest” on the sheet.

TV Movies now count for showographies. Only one movie per producer will count each session (the first one to air). This is to prevent someone from writing 10, 3 page scripts to boost his and the network’s numbers. Hopefully all of this will encourage producers to release shorter films on TV.

Former Cable Shows
We don’t want to punish shows that tried our little cable experiment. If they come back to network the 5m revive fee still applies, but all previous episodes count towards syndication and showographies.

As a thank you to our dedicated producers, DRTV will be buying back the shows* for all active players who have syndicated a series with us.