Clearly David Zaslov didn’t give them two hours on Saturday night to do an 0.13. The key to this is that at 0.20, Collision is a success. At 0.13, I don’t think anyone would peg that as a success even with the declining viewership across television. Obviously with the concerns about the future, adding the new show is to give TNT live programming on Saturday night with the idea live programming is the key to the future of cable television.
But obviously the cost of putting on a movie from the library is much lower than producing a two-hour live event.
If this is indicative, or close to what the show levels off at, then it shows that AEW fans are willing to watch one show per week, but they have other things to do in life. We already saw with the big decline in streaming numbers and Rampage, while Dynamite fell, but was still doing well, that the AEW audience more and more was into watching their two hours on Wednesday and PPV shows, but they consider the other stuff skippable.
