Second Show for TNA?

[Troy]

Currently TNA just has the one wrestling show IMPACT! on Thursday nights which runs for two hours. Note I don't count Explosion as a show as I believe it only airs in some international markets. There was talk of bringing in a show called TNA Reaction but that has been delayed and not for the first time.

If you were in charge of planning the second show for TNA what would you do? What day would you have the show on, how long would each show be and what format would the show have?

If you asked me this last year I would have automatically said bring on a Knockout's only show. I know that it was suggested by TNA and Spiketv some time previously since the KO's regularly received the highest tv ratings. They had plenty of talented female wrestlers on the roster as well at that stage and so they would have had enough to fill an hour each week. I would have keep it at one hour, had it KO's only and would have had both the KO's title and KO tag team title defended on the show. It really would have gotten those titles over and helped boost the division. That certainly wouldn't work now unless TNA hired more talented female wrestlers.

Instead I would now just prefer a one hour wrestling program, two hours would be a waste at this time. They definately need more than the two hours they currently have with the massive roster TNA has. I would structure this show around what Heat and Velocity used to be. They were clear second shows to the main programs and featured the mid and undercard from those shows. This one hour show would focus on TNA's undercard and midcard. It would have regular defenses of the X-Division, Global Title and even both KO's titles. I think that a show like that would help TNA a lot more since it would build up underused wrestlers and make the overall roster stronger. I would have it air either on a Wednesday night since there is no wrestling on a Wednesday or on Saturday night since that is a wrestling night which isn't used frequently anymore.

What type of second show would you produce for TNA? What format would it have; who would regularly be featured, how long would it be and what day would it be on? Do you think TNA even needs a second show?

 

[Killz]

Frankly I think TNA needs a second two hour show if I'm being honest but structure it how SD! is structured here in the UK, with a 'From The Vault' match aired.

Essentially I think the Main Event could do with a second show to showcase talent, even if you don't have a second belt. Secondly, I think if you had the world title the focus of iMPACT, the second brand could happily be the focus of the Global Championship and make that title MEAN something by being defended on it, have contenders crowned on it. You can use the second brand to give exposure to the KO's and X-Division stars when they don't get an iMPACT slot whilst iMPACT can still focus on your big money main event fueds and helping promote the upper mid-card to the very top. Gaps in either show can be filled with pertinent 'Epics' style matches from back in the day featuring stars from the respective shows main event for that night and we can maybe see more ring action that builds to PPVs instead of a brawl and a promo video that we get in the weeks prior to most PPV's now.

 

[Troy]

Well TNA certainly have a large enough roster to have another two hour show to pair with IMPACT but I would expect them to start with a one hour show and see how it rates before giving it the extra hour. I would keep it all as one brand though, two brands make things two complicated and they don't have enough big stars to carry two seperate brands like WWE has. Something to showcase the talent that they have outside the mainevent would be good to have because some of them are horribly underused and it is a waste having them under contract without bothering to use them since they just don't have the tv time.

Hopefully TNA do add something else, there is talk about Explosion being shown on SpikeTV so that may turn into the Heat/Velocity of IMPACT.