10 WWE Network Original Programming Ideas

6. Shoot Interviews & Documentaries

Kayfabe Commentaries do an excellent job preserving the history of wrestling (and WWE) with their Timeline series, which chronicle the pivotal years of WWE, WCW, ECW and other promotions. RF Video, for 15 years, have booked wrestlers to sit in front of a camera for two hours or more and answer dozens of direct, non-kayfabed questions spanning that person's whole career. This whole genre of shoot interviews and productions like Timeline and Breaking Kayfabe is a market that WWE should have sewn up by now. They have all the archive footage, they have the majority of the wrestling legends still alive who are willing to open up as much as they are directed to do so. It's a relatively untapped goldmine. Imagine Lex Luger sat down and documenting his year in 1995 talking about being in the Allied Powers, his defection to WCW, the initial Nitros. You could also have a documentary on a star like the British Bulldog, incase the company are scared it wouldn€™t bring in as many DVD sales. WWE has dozens of performers under contract and instead of flying them in and using them to create a bigger, more appealing library of content, the legends sit at home collecting a paycheck. This needs to change, and shoot interviews are an easy way of doing that.
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Kenny is a successful podcast host with Inside The Ropes, promotes exciting Q&A events in the UK with the likes of Sting and DDP, has interviewed the big guns like Foley, Jericho, Bruno and Austin and enjoys cheese a great deal.