Interview · moment 15 of 23
Meeting the President of CBS During the Strike
from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363
4 min
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Tim recounts a bizarre meeting with a CBS executive during the strike who pitched reality shows like 'Raid the Cage' and a Spanish Wheel of Fortune knockoff called La Silla, while insisting network TV needs to be 'about something.'
- Tim met with the president of CBS during the strike without signing any deals, just because he likes getting in rooms with powerful people.
- Ninety percent of executives' jobs is fake nonsense meetings and wasted time.
- The CBS president told Tim she wants to make things that are about something, then asked him what everything is really about—a question Tim says his mother also asks constantly.
- He imagines the CBS president walking around the network pointing at shows asking what they're about, arriving at descriptions like 'Naval rape' for NCIS and suggesting Drew Barrymore has a brain injury.
- Tim told the CBS president directly that she needs to make things that are a joy to watch instead of drowning everything in meaning.
- The CBS president pitched a new reality show called 'Raid the Cage'—described as Santa's workshop on crack where people get stuck in a cage and try to grab prizes.
- She compared another show, 'La Silly,' to a Mexican Wheel of Fortune, and Tim thanked her for his time and got parking validation.