Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

[Redacted01]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Seems fine to me. If you go to the event, there is an hour or more of wrestling before hand any way. They will just televise that. As long as Smackdown doesn't go 3 hours as I can barely fast forward through 2 of that every week.

[Segagendude]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

I can see it now......Hour 1: great.

Hour 2: Let's recap Hour 1...

Hour 3: Let's recap hour 2, and end with our main event.....lololol....

Of course in between, we get boring divas, Brodeus Clay dancing, and backstage babble that goes nowhere.

Ok, ok, I kid, I kid. Don't jump all over me!

[Redacted01]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

One benefit to 3 hours (and I know they won't actually do this) is that they could actually, you know, show wrestling matches instead of cutting to commercials in the middle. Show an extra commercial or two each break and quit cutting out all the damn time.

[jvalverde88]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Going 3 hours did not work for WCW and they did it during their hottest period and had more talent on their roster. It seems like this was more of a USA Network call then a WWE. But hey, the more wrestling the better.

[BenGerman]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

This is fantastic news. I may have to break it up into two days, and watch half on my DVR the next day. Of course, I'll miss following the excellent MNR threads here on OS.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

WWE RAW has had three-hour episodes from time to time, but soon, that will be the show’s permanent new running time. At USA’s Upfront event yesterday, WWE’s Stephanie McMahon and John Cena announced that RAW will go from two hours to three hours beginning on July 23rd, the night RAW airs their special 1000th episode.
At the event, I spoke to McMahon, asking her about the challenges in filling an entire extra hour of content on the show each week - something she told me they were excited about.
Said McMahon, “It’s going to be the first-ever regularly scheduled three-hour program on television and I think we’ve got a pretty good handle on it thus far! You know, we do a three hour show called a Pay-Per-View almost every month and Monday Night RAW, we’ve done three hours before, so we feel great about it. “
As far as changes to the show, McMahon remarked, “This is going to be the most interactive show in television history. Our audience is going to have the chance to effect something in the show every week.” As far as what the audience would be determining, she said it would be, “Matches, stipulations, anything and everything. Different things every week.”
Stephanie, who is the Executive Vice President, Creative, for WWE, used to have a notable on-camera presence on RAW, but is rarely seen on the show these days. When I asked if she might show up on RAW again anytime soon she smiled and replied, “Who knows? Maybe you’ve got to tune into the 1000th RAW on July 23rd!”
Regarding the 1000th episode, she told me, “It’s so much fun when we have an event episode, because you really get to plan around it and the creative flows and its just a lot of fresh faces and old faces. It’s great.”
As we were finishing our conversation, I couldn’t resist asking her about The Rock, who has already said he’ll be at WrestleMania next year, but not in what capacity. When I tried to find out if he might actually have a match, she replied, “Hmm, I think I’m gonna have to let that one unfold!”

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/wwe-raw-expanding-to-three-hours

[Kratcha0914]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Seems fine to me. If you go to the event, there is an hour or more of wrestling before hand any way. They will just televise that. As long as Smackdown doesn't go 3 hours as I can barely fast forward through 2 of that every week.

^^ agreed...

[Bellsprout]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Stephanie, who is the Executive Vice President, Creative, for WWE, used to have a notable on-camera presence on RAW, but is rarely seen on the show these days. When I asked if she might show up on RAW again anytime soon she smiled and replied, “Who knows? Maybe you’ve got to tune into the 1000th RAW on July 23rd!”

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[GnarlyKing]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

If they use it well, it could be a good thing. They have a lot of young talent right now that is never going to get over until they get some time on the main show and the biggest audience learns who they are, so if they give most of the extra time to them it could work well. If they go the route of stretching 2 hours worth of stuff into 3, it'll be a trainwreck.

[kingkilla56]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Audience participation? Somewhere, Hulk Hogan and his "revolutionary" idea for TNA sheds a tear.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

I don't want audience participation. People are dumb. Hopefully it's all a work, lol.

[goh]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Last time they had audience participation they buggered it up and we had Mason Ryan vs. Evan Bourne instead of Sin Cara vs. Evan Bourne.

[fpac]

Last time they had audience participation they buggered it up and we had Mason Ryan vs. Evan Bourne instead of Sin Cara vs. Evan Bourne.

Am I wrong in saying that the audience might have got that one right?

[jvalverde88]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Last time they had audience participation they buggered it up and we had Mason Ryan vs. Evan Bourne instead of Sin Cara vs. Evan Bourne.

Am I wrong in saying that the audience might have got that one right?

Yeah I don't think the crowd had a hand in that one. Does anybody actually like Mason Ryan?

[Redacted01]

Re: Raw going 3 hours for good on July 23rd

Yeah I don't think the crowd had a hand in that one. Does anybody actually like Mason Ryan?

Yea, depending on if they like Batista.