Price Director Leaves Show Options

[uncamark]

he couldn't have been that bad if he was with the company for as long as he was.

Just because someone does something at the same business for a long time doesn't mean he was any good at it. I may catch some heat for this, but I offer the Joe Franklin example. Personal opinion, I grant you, but I thought he was awful. And yet, he held that post for forty years.

Eskander didn't start out as a director--he was a PA, a music supervisor and an AD before becoming a director. I suspect he was a perfectly competent AD who was promoted beyond the level of his competence.

[tpirfan28]

I see this twofold:

- Bart sucked, glad he's gone.
- Who can they bring in that would do a better job as a rookie at a show with as many moving parts as Price? I'm apprehensive that the director can, at minimum, maintain the same level that Bart did. Price just seems really complex.

[Don Howard]

Eskander didn't start out as a director--he was a PA, a music supervisor and an AD before becoming a director. I suspect he was a perfectly competent AD who was promoted beyond the level of his competence.

Ye olde Peter Principle, eh? Okay, I'll give you that.

[clemon79]

Who can they bring in that would do a better job as a rookie at a show with as many moving parts as Price? I'm apprehensive that the director can, at minimum, maintain the same level that Bart did. Price just seems really complex.

Funny, since there were an awful lot of armchair directors up in here who thought a trained seal could do a better job when he was calling the shots.

[Don Howard]

Who can they bring in that would do a better job as a rookie at a show with as many moving parts as Price? I'm apprehensive that the director can, at minimum, maintain the same level that Bart did. Price just seems really complex.

Funny, since there were an awful lot of armchair directors up in here who thought a trained seal could do a better job when he was calling the shots.

Can't wait to hear what tune gets whistled once the first of the post-Bart eppies is televised. In fact, I wonder if a Facebook group's been started lamenting the release of The Esk. I shall investigate and report back.
ADDED A FEW MINUTES LATER: There are none. This will bear watching, however.

[CarShark]

Was it like this in the mid-90s, after Dian and Holly weren't on the show? Every article or every statement tinged with drama, insecurity, tension. Never knowing what to believe. Never knowing who to believe. This is really getting tiresome. At least, since it doesn't involve on-air personnel, it doesn't appear like it will lead to backlash against the show.

Personally, I didn't care much for Eskander's style. I just never understood how he could have so many effects and transitions and other tools (especially with computer technology being so much better) at his disposal, and he chose to use so few. To me, it's like an artist going into his studio every day, staring at his canvas and after a couple hours of cogitation deciding, "I know! I'll paint it......white!" Every. Single. Day. It doesn't make sense to me. I don't know how much of that was his own decision and how much was Barker leaning on him (like I bet he was, judging from a few of the later changes for cars and Plinko), but it always struck me as lazy.

[Chief-O]

ClockGameJohn has confirmed that R. Brian DiPirro will be "Price"'s next director.