AEW Boss Tony Khan Talks ‘Dynamite’s’ Three-Year Anniversary, Lessons Learned and ‘National Scissoring Day’
variety.comJoe Otterson TV Reporter All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is celebrating the third anniversary of its weekly Wednesday night show, “Dynamite,” and company leader Tony Khan is thrilled to have seen the program grow by leaps and bounds in that time. “I think we’ve done about 160 episodes of ‘Dynamite’ now, and we’ve learned a lot in the last several years that I think has helped improve the flow of the show,” Khan said in an interview with Variety. “I think we’ve developed a lot of new stars in these three years to where we can put on more consistent great cards week to week.” The very first episode of “Dynamite” aired on Oct.
20, 2019 on TNT (the show now airs on TBS), but that was not the first AEW card to air on television. The company had already run multiple pay-per-views prior to “Dynamite’s” launch, something Khan credits for a lack of serious nervousness going into that first broadcast on TNT.
The show got off to a strong start both with wrestling fans and in the ratings, but things began to stall toward the end of the year. “That was when I started to say, ‘You know, a lot of these setbacks were very preventable,'” Khan said. “And there were things that I didn’t even want to do in the first place.
So I just said going forward that I’m only going to do ideas that I feel good about. … As I gained experience in wrestling, I started to gain more confidence.” It has not been entirely smooth sailing since then, however.
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