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Matt Ottinger:
There's no real reason for GSN to pull their special.  The six candidate-contestants are still candidates whether the election is held a few days after the GSN special or a few months.    If anything, a delay would give them more opportunity for replays.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 15 2003, 05:40 PM\']There's no real reason for GSN to pull their special.  The six candidate-contestants are still candidates whether the election is held a few days after the GSN special or a few months.    If anything, a delay would give them more opportunity for replays.[/quote]
Allow me to respectfully disagree.  If the recall is moved to six months from now, while the platforms of the candidates may not change, some of the issues or news events could conceivably change that could affect the content of the show.  Suppose that the main topic of conversation throughout the whole show is Ah-nold, and in the ensuing months Ah-nold has to drop out (some Clintonesque skeleton is found).  Or one of the six candidates who actually attended the taping drops out.  GSN would look rather silly airing a show trying to capitalize on current events that was \"obviously\" taped much earlier (as opposed to airing a week of FF reruns that originally aired at Xmas time on the 4th of July).  

OK, now tell me why I'm an ignorant slut.  :)

Doug

PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Sep 15 2003, 08:07 PM\']
OK, now tell me why I'm an ignorant slut.  :)

 [/quote]
 Because you voted for the porn star. :-D

Matt Ottinger:
We may not be talking about the same things.  

I'm saying go ahead GSN, tape the special and air the special on October 1st like you were planning all along.  It doesn't make any difference whether the actual election happens that week or months from now.   You've gotten your publicity mileage out of it, and your winner now has some more time to figure out what to do with the \"campaign contrbution\".

Yes, months from now, replays may appear a little dated if things have dramatically changed.  So, OK, if you were disagreeing only on the narrow point of the replay value, I guess I can see that.  So instead of replays,  here's a better idea.  If the thing's a hit (and the publicity alone should bode well for it), do a sequel in March!

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Sep 15 2003, 07:07 PM\'] GSN would look rather silly airing a show trying to capitalize on current events that was "obviously" taped much earlier (as opposed to airing a week of FF reruns that originally aired at Xmas time on the 4th of July).  

 [/quote]
 That \"Silly\" factor is the reason why most of the run of Challengers won't probably be seen in reruns(the show had that day's date on a monitor behind DIck's run for all but a few weeks of the run)

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