It's 8:40 PM in Hamtramck, MI, time once again for another round of ASK MrSCORPIO

[MrScorpio]

4. Here you go…

1. Producers and studios are making shows on the cheap, in order to maximize their profit margin. Skimping on talent, writers, actors and directors, entertainment has been turned into a factory far, producing cheap goods that they can sell at high price.

This is why you see a preponderance of cheap, amateur talent shows, in place of the professional variety fare of the past. Instead of depending on artists who earn their rep, they've decided to create "stars," many of which have never benefitted from professional and classical training, rigorous practice and development.

Now, it cost too much money to put real talent on TV and professional talent, for what it's worth, is finding it harder to get work. If they do, they find out that the compensation for their skills is less that what it used to be.

2. Again. it speaks to the cheapness and ready availability of hiring amateur talent, contriving phony drama and drawing an increasingly unsophisticated audience to watch what is the entertainment equivalent of cheap calories. Less investment upfront spells a higher rate of return on that investment.

3. A shitload.