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Re: How Pony is Formed: Production and Business Thread

Postby Killing Vector (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:57 am

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Postby londonarbuckle (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:59 am

Great news! I've always had a soft spot for her among the other writers.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:42 pm

:skeptical: She doesn't look anything like I pictured though.
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Postby ComradeCosmobot (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:47 pm

Headless Horse wrote::skeptical: She doesn't look anything like I pictured though.


For those of you who don't know (Headless Horse should, which is probably why he made the joke), the photo is of Fullerton's husband, Dwayne McDuffie, whose untimely death in 2011 resulted from complications relating to emergency heart surgery.
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Postby drunkill (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:28 pm

Yes, she does a month long thing to answer fan questions about her husband in because he was born (and died a day after his birthday) in Feburary.

I just hope she doesn't get a stern talking to or anything about 'leaking' information even if we already know Season 5 is happening, it hasn't officially been announced or talked about.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:37 am

Ratings are up (literally)
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:42 am

Glad to see ratings go up.
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:11 am

AppleCobbler44 wrote:Ratings are up (literally)
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Whats this? Only taking six of the top ten spots? And only barely completely crushing and humiliating all the other shows? Psst, it will never make it to season six. :-/
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:59 am

Looks like the Breezies helped blow up the ratings. Latest ep brought in 644K viewers!! :allears:

http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tvrating ... y-24-2014/
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:57 am

That's a season high, isn't it?

:yay: Go Fluttershy!
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:09 am

The Doctor wrote:That's a season high, isn't it?

:yay: Go Fluttershy!



Its one of the top 5 for sure, not quite as high as the season premire or Power Ponies, but deff one of the highest of the season.
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:24 am

How are itunes sales, DVDs, and netflix views doing (assuming we have a way to check these)?
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Postby drunkill (?) » Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:31 am

Netflix only adds new content all at once, so the whole season of a show will drop on the same day. It tends to put show up once the DVD has been released (as ot to compete with sales) depending on the show and contract they have. They also don't release numbers of viewers, some websites have rough estimates based on ratings but those are not accurate.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:21 pm

So we have one more new writer working on season 4: Noelle Benvenuti. She wrote this coming week's episode. There's nothing available about Noelle online at all, which makes me suspect that it's a pseudonym, although others suspect she's related to Leo Benvenuti.

Anyway, season 4 was chock full of new writers. As of episode 420, here's the rundown:

NEW WRITERS:
Josh Haber -3
Ed Valentine - 2
Natasha Levinger - 2
Scott Sonneborn - 1
Noelle Benvenuti - 1
Betsy McGowen - 1
Jason Thiessen (series director) - 1

RETURNING:
Meghan McCarthy - 4
Dave Polsky - 4
Amy Keating Rogers - 2 (confirmed to have done 3 for this season)
Corey Powell - 1
Merriwether Williams - 1
Charlotte Fullerton - 1

Season 4 has at least 13 confirmed writers, the largest number we've had in a single season.
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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:17 am

Latest ratings are in. Somepony to Watch Over Me drew 625k viewers.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:57 am

Frith wrote:Latest ratings are in. Somepony to Watch Over Me drew 625k viewers.



Ahh yeah baby! Thanks what in talking about! Bout time the Apples got an ep that broke 600K!!! :flirt:
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Postby Frith (?) » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:16 am

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the latest ratings. Maud Pie drew 521k viewers last Saturday, which is quite normal result for the show in S4.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:37 pm

Another reason for the ratings going down abit is the fact A NEW Sanjay & Craig was on at the same time.
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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:06 pm

The best episode had also quite good ratings. "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" drew 658K viewers last Saturday and it's the third most watched FIM episode ever behind "Princess Twilight Sparkle" (721K for both parts) and "Power Ponies" (683K).
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:18 pm

That's funny, especially considering the fact that this episode didn't get that much promotion.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:41 pm

While I doubt the season finale will break one million viewers, I wonder how close it'll get.
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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:26 pm

My optimistic guess is that 800K viewers is possible outcome for the season finale.

Anyway, DHN has listed some facts about the latest ratings that I didn't notice:

- Combined with Sunday’s rerun the combined viewership of the episode was 996K and that is the second best viewership behind the season premiere

- It's the first time the show has received a 0.4 household rating since the season premiere.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:11 am

I personally believe it'll be somewhere around 750,000, depending on the kind of the promotion they give it. Whether it's like A Canterlot Wedding kind of promotion, or MMC level promotion, which was barely anything.
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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:52 pm

Here are the latest ratings

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This is quite normal result for MLP but hey, at least it beat Ice Age :party:
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Postby Killing Vector (?) » Sun Apr 06, 2014 4:47 am

This isn't at all confirmed, but it occurred to me that since Cindy Morrow wrote some of the EqG2 shorts there's a decent chance she wrote for season 5 of FiM as well.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 12:26 am

So if you want proof that season 5 is happening, here's a tweet from Chantal Strand, one of the VAs:

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So yeah, they're recording voices for it now.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:14 am

I heard another S5 spoiler from a reliable source, Diamond Tiara does in fact have her cutie mark next season. :-I
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:19 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:I heard another S5 spoiler from a reliable source, Diamond Tiara does in fact have her cutie mark next season. :-I

Actually, it would be neat if they did an episode where Diamond Tiara loses her cutie mark because of magical karma. :smirk:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:23 am

Mr. Big wrote:Actually, it would be neat if they did an episode where Diamond Tiara loses her cutie mark because of magical karma. :smirk:



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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:33 am

Mr. Big wrote:Actually, it would be neat if they did an episode where Diamond Tiara loses her cutie mark because of magical karma. :smirk:

She switches her cutie mark to the Autobot logo, and everyone is totally fooled into believing she's not evil until she switches back.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:48 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:She switches her cutie mark to the Autobot logo, and everyone is totally fooled into believing she's not evil until she switches back.


I now would like a picture of the new Dawn of the Autobots Megatron with this Autobot-logo Diamond Tiara. :-I
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:20 am

Mr. Big wrote:Actually, it would be neat if they did an episode where Diamond Tiara loses her cutie mark because of magical karma. :smirk:


And / or an accident involving a strip of duct tape.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:35 pm

http://lps.derpynews.com/ponies-up-pets ... al-report/

“The combination of strong consumer insights, global digital content and engaging storytelling, innovative products and comprehensive retail execution, enabled MLP to post three years of revenue growth, expand its geographic and demographic reach and be well positioned entering 2014.”



So FiM (and Furbies): :wowzers:

Littlest Pet Shop (and Furreal Friends...?): :yikes:
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:44 pm

That is a paragraph I recognize from the 4th Quarter 2013 Conference that was held in february, so I suppose they just glued together all quarter reports and called it an Annual.
In other words, nothing new here. :pinkieshrug:

The next interesting thing, the 1st Quarter 2014 Conference, will be on April 21.
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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:11 pm

Hub's ratings for the last week:

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Once again, MLP dominated the Hub chart.
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:19 pm

I like how 2 repeats of Pony still beat out Space Jam
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Postby Frith (?) » Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:13 am

Trade Ya! drew 514k viewers last Saturday. So there were nothing groundbreaking in the ratings.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:47 am

I imagine that'll change with the finale, and there will be another boost in views.
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Postby Grue (?) » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:58 pm

Frith wrote:Trade Ya! drew 514k viewers last Saturday. So there were nothing groundbreaking in the ratings.


I believe this is the first week where the entire top 10 is MLP. Usually at least something, like LPS or some random movie disturbs its dominance.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:01 am

Something I've been working on for years, a credits guide for MLP. Here's what I have so far on episode-by-episode basis.

Credits for whole series is here.

Few things of note:

Meghan McCarthy has written, or co-written, the most episodes, with 18. She is also the only writer to work on all four seasons of the show.

Dave Polsky, Charlotte Fullerton, and Amy Keating Rogers all returned after being absent for a season.

As the show gets older, fewer and fewer season 1 writers are sticking around. For season 4, the only writers involved since the beginning were McCarthy, Polsky, and Rogers. And also Fullerton, but she only did one (and it was shared with two other writers), so she barely counts.
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