''TNA Reaction'' is an American

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-focused documentary-style

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(TNA) that aired in the United States and Canada on

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. The show aired two pilot episodes and a twenty-episode limited run through late 2010, and aired its final episode on December 30, 2010.

Broadcast history

Season 1

''TNA Reaction'' aired its

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on a Monday night on April 12, 2010 at 7pm ET/6C. On May 3, 2010, TNA announced that Spike had picked up ''Reaction'' and that the program would start airing every Thursday, prior to that week's edition of '' Impact!'', starting June 24 at 8pm ET/7C. The premiere date was later pushed back to July 15, when it would start airing after ''Impact!'' at 11pm ET/10C instead of before it. However, in late June ''Reaction'' was pulled from Spike's schedule. On August 3, 2010, TNA announced that ''Reaction'' would premiere on August 12 and air every Thursday following ''Impact!'' on 11pm ET/10C. After an initial run of ten episodes, it was announced that Spike had picked up the show for ten more episodes. On December 27, 2010, it was confirmed that Spike had canceled the show and its final episode would be airing on December 30, 2010.

Format

The show was composed largely of segments mimicking a cinéma-vérité documentary, catching wrestlers unawares backstage preparing for their matches, or expressing their emotions immediately following their matches. Some were "on-the-spot"

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s regarding the current happenings within the company's storylines. Most of the high-volume, intense yelling typical of wrestling interviews was removed with this format, giving it a feeling of spontaneity, candidness and

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. After the pilot episode, this style of segment largely replaced the typical structured interview segment (with an interviewer and a set) on the company's flagship show ''Impact''. TNA superstars featured include A.J. Styles, Hulk Hogan, Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, and Mr. Anderson and many more. Other segments included the ''Impact Player of the Week'', which highlighted a wrestler with sit-down interviews and source footage from their life, akin to similar segments from ''

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''. The show began with an extension of the final scene from that week's ''Impact'', with commentary from

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and

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. The last three months of the show's existence, ''Impact!''

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s continued into ''Reaction'' time slot, effectively giving ''Impact!'' a third broadcast hour. On the November 18, 2010, broadcast of ''Reaction'', an "unofficial" Empty Arena grudge match was shown, held between Generation Me and

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. It was filmed in the similar candid manner of other ''Reaction'' segments, with minimal commentary overdubbed.

References

External links

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