Comments on: How HBO, NHL might top the first 24/7 series

By: blitzburghbrian

blitzburghbrian — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:31:47 +0000

Following a playoff series between the Blackhawks and Canucks would be unreal. As a fan from the East, I’d love to get this kind of look at some teams I don’t get to watch very often.

All 16 playoff teams would be a bit much; you certainly wouldn’t be able to cover every round in one episode. But watching the grind of a few months of playoffs to see one team you’ve grown to love win the Stanley Cup against another team that’s endeared itself to you in some other way would make for truly fantastic television.

By: plax18

plax18 — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:57:17 +0000

totally agree that a full season would be wayyyyy to long. all of the 24/7′s and Hard Knocks lead up to a certain event. no one would care to follow the thrashers for an 82 game season. when hbo does 24/7 to boxing its short and sweet leading up to a special event. keep it that way. i like the idea above about following teams through the playoffs to the stanley cup, that would be great

By: stakex

stakex — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:29:20 +0000

Personally I don’t think following a team for a full season would be all that great. What made the first 24/7 series really good was the fact it was a brief look at hockey that you normally don’t get. If you had the series running the entire season a few problems pop up:

1. If the series stays short (4-6 episode range) then each episode would be very watered down and important moments would be glossed over.

2. If the series is too long (10-12 episode range) then its going to be hard to make every episode entertaining. Not to mention it would be tough to keep the series focused on a long term goal.

There are a lot of other things I can think of that would be bad for a full season series, but I don’t feel like typing them all. To be honest, the series needs to stay short… five episodes would be good. So in that case I think they should stick with doing a playoff series, or possbily following several teams during the playoffs. If all the teams they start following get knocked off they can just move on to different teams and keep going till its the finals. That might requier more episodes, but given the entertaining nature of the playoffs it shouldn’t be hard keeping them entertaining.