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Chicago Tribune | The Watcher: Bravo buys TWoP.com: Will the snarky site lose its bite?

cmmt-I've been reading TWoP since the halcyon days of Dawson's Wrap, and I can't imagine that Wing, Sars, and Glark would have made the sale if Bravo was going to be censoring the recaps or forums. From the Announcements section, Glark says:
"More recaps? Yep.
Podcasts? Oh yeah, they are coming.
More moderators? Yep!
Dedicated tech problem solvers? Mmmm sweet.
Making sure the world knows that NBC programming is always top-quality can't miss TV? Yeah, no. We're not doing that."
Posted by: Alyssa | Mar 13, 2007 4:29:11 PM


It’s pretty rare that a press release actually causes my jaw to drop, but one that Bravo sent out Tuesday so, announced on 3/20? no 3/13 did. I’ve been reading TelevisionWithoutPity.com for at least eight years, since it was MightyBigTV.com (the TWoP name change came in 2002). ..What I admire about TWoP is that it’s always given intelligent, passionate TV fans a chance to talk about, or even rip apart, their favorite shows, in a forum that doesn’t take itself too seriously – but which takes television itself seriously. Having interviewed co-founder Sarah “Sars” Bunting for various stories, I’ve found her to be the prototypical TWoPer – smart, funny, sarcastic, incredibly knowledgeable about TV and essentially respectful of it as an art form.
..And let’s not forget the power that the site's 1 million unique monthly visitors have accrued over the years. Most shows worth their salt have at least one – if not several – staff members who regularly check the message boards at TWoP. Rob Thomas gave the news of one “Veronica Mars” renewal first to “Couch Baron,” the recapper and moderator who presides of the TWoP boards devoted to that show. And Aaron Sorkin famously tangled with the site’s “West Wing” denizens years ago – an exchange in which the TWoPers came out looking better than the overpaid writer.
..But will the site still have its bite now that it’s owned by Bravo, a subsidiary of NBC Universal? As a Tuesday statement on the site said, “You're probably asking yourselves, "What does this mean? How can TWoP still be TWoP if it's owned by a network?"’ Exactly. The TWoP statement says that the commentary and snark won’t change, but that new content will be added to the site, things like “trend stories, blogs, exclusive interviews, audio and video content, … podcasts, episode extras, video games, and all sorts of other neat stuff."
I hope the design does not change (at least, that the basic look remains) - I really like how the site looks. the forums are pleasantly readable, unlike any other forums I've seen it seems. and I like those sketch drawings as icons for each show, etc. this was my first thought at the announcement, I think.

cmmt - One of the things I like best about the site is that it's streamlined and uncluttered with lots of random stuff - like video and audio content that take forever to load and sometimes crash my browser, blogs by people I don't care about and will enver read, video games, episode extras... basically, everything I hate about the Bravo tv website. Posted by: SCO
hmm. yep, it could quickly ruin the site for me if it gets cluttered, noisy.

The full statement from Bravo is below (and now also highlights from a Tuesday conference call):

"TelevisionWithoutPity is an online brand destination for the impassioned and opinionated television viewer, which mirrors the exact attributes of Bravo's core audience," said Zalaznick. "This will broaden the scope of our sites to create a community where smart people with something to say about their favorite shows, past and present, can get together under the umbrella of Bravo's pop sensibility."
With a signature smart yep and sardonic voice, the editorial staff from across the country summarizes more than 40 television shows into weekly "recaps." The recaps combine a clever eye for detail with a healthy dose of cheeky commentary, sometimes deemed better than the actual episodes yup yup. Later this month Brothers & Sisters ok, Men in Trees cool, Drive huh? and The Wire int will they have anyth negative to say? (well note that friday night lights recaps are pretty glowing and that works fine) will be added to the existing recaps.

Drive, Men In Trees and The Wire Added to TWoP

TelevisionWithoutPity.com co-founders Tara Ariano (known online as Wing Chun) and Sarah D. Bunting (a.k.a. Sars) met in a "Beverly Hills 90210" chat room and quickly bonded over their love-hate relationship with bad TV. Although based in two different cities (Ariano in Toronto and Bunting in Brooklyn, New York), together they created DawsonsWrap.com in the fall of 1998, a site devoted exclusively to the analysis, discussion and lobbing of rotten vegetables at "Dawson's Creek." Inspired by the positive response to DawsonsWrap.com, they expanded the site in September 1999 into its current form but called MightyBigTV.com with more than a dozen shows on the regular recap roster. In early 2002, the name changed and TelevisionWithoutPity.com officially was born.

As part of the acquisition, principal co-founders Ariano and Bunting will remain on as Editors, overseeing all content. David T. Cole (screen name Glark), co-founder and Ariano's husband, who has served as Community Engineer and Lead Designer for the site, has been named Manager, Media Technology Production. Cole also will continue to oversee the popular fan forums.
As part of the overall deal, Bravo also acquired Fametracker.com huh okay, a pop culture site started by Ariano and partner Adam Sternbergh. Self-dubbed "the Farmer's Almanac of celebrity worth," the site is an e-zine with a humorous look at the culture of celebrity, and has collected accolades from MTV, Variety and Entertainment Weekly, among many others.