Stephanie McMahon Excited About RAW Going Three-Hours, Discusses Fan Involvement

[Big Hoss Rambler]

Eric Goldman of IGN.com spoke with Stephanie McMahon at the USA Upfronts last week where RAW going three-hours permanently was announced.

Stephanie told IGN that WWE is excited about the challenges of filling an extra hour of content each week:

"It’s going to be the first-ever regularly scheduled three-hour program on television and I think we’ve got a pretty good handle on it thus far! You know, we do a three hour show called a Pay-Per-View almost every month and Monday Night RAW, we’ve done three hours before, so we feel great about it."

Stephanie said that the fans would be able to pick "matches, stipulations, anything and everything. Different things every week." She talked about the interactive part of the show:

"This is going to be the most interactive show in television history. Our audience is going to have the chance to effect something in the show every week."

Goldman asked Stephanie if she will be returning to RAW. Stephanie teased and talked about the 1,000th RAW:

"Who knows? Maybe you’ve got to tune into the 1000th RAW on July 23rd! It’s so much fun when we have an event episode, because you really get to plan around it and the creative flows and its just a lot of fresh faces and old faces. It’s great."

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[Stopspot]

Did she specify anything? Do the fans get to decide one thing every show or is there more fan involvement? The fans getting to vote on one match they want to see each week before every RAW could actually work. Fans voting on multiple things per show could become more hard to manage.

 

[Big Hoss Rambler]

Here's the full interview from IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/wwe-raw-expanding-to-three-hours

 

[Crayo]

Eh, really not digging this interactive thing.

 

[Donald Trump_]

Eh, really not digging this interactive thing.

Why not? :upset:

 

[Asskicker]

Kind of ruins the whole booking/writing perspective IMO. Guess that's Vince saying creative sucks so lets have our fans start the feuds.

 

[Lockard 23]

Plus, some find it hard to believe that fans actually get to choose anything, as if we're expected to believe that WWE doesn't already know which stipulation or kind of match it wants to do.

 

[Crayo]

Well it won't all be fans. They'll say "A) B) or C)?" but it's lame. I like the idea of it being random or created by the GM.

 

[Leo C]

I'll wait and see what this new interactivity is all about, I'm still not sure whether it'll be good or bad.

 

[Super Saiyan Goku]

If she is it can't be good!