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GSN's reason for giving up Marshall HS
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 01:08 PM\'] But with Match Game, people still recognize Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly (and Betty White when she's in the sixth seat). I remember when ET did a feature on MG a year or two back, Brett said she was amazed that she gets fan mail from teenagers. [/quote]
While HSq is dated in some areas--who remembers Karen Valentine without having TV Land?--but the jokes and double entrendres on MG never get old. I have to side with GSN on this one.
JMFabiano:
[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 01:08 PM\'] But with Match Game, people still recognize Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly (and Betty White when she's in the sixth seat). I remember when ET did a feature on MG a year or two back, Brett said she was amazed that she gets fan mail from teenagers. [/quote]
Now, if GSN announces it will be replacing all Rayburn MG's with repeats of MG98 (can't have those numbers-killing, nasty OLD people -- pauses to spit on ground -- infesting our channel...Judy Tenuta equals RATINGS, dammit!!), I will truly be in horror.
I know some of you understand, or are trying to, but I too am worrying about the writing being on the wall. My above comment was sarcastic, but you never know sadly.
But on another tangent...while I wish to see more Marshall HS, am I one of the only people left who thought the Bergeron ones were decent? (Seems it suddenly became trendy to bash it around 2000-2001 or so) Unlike That other celebrity panel game revival of 1998, at least it managed to be faithful to the original, despite the usual complaints...Peter Marshall's eternal argument of it being \"too loud,\" and the handling of bluffs being such that they imply that ANY Celebrity could come up with something funny to say. I will say, however, that the show really lost my interest in, ironically, the season GSN is showing now, with the loss of a certain favorite panelist I won't shut up about and the out-of-place bonus round.
PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 07:46 PM\'] [quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 01:08 PM\'] But with Match Game, people still recognize Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly (and Betty White when she's in the sixth seat). I remember when ET did a feature on MG a year or two back, Brett said she was amazed that she gets fan mail from teenagers. [/quote]
Now, if GSN announces it will be replacing all Rayburn MG's with repeats of MG98 (can't have those numbers-killing, nasty OLD people -- pauses to spit on ground -- infesting our channel...Judy Tenuta equals RATINGS, dammit!!), I will truly be in horror.
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Don't laugh---MG98 was edgy, after all. Thank goodness the tapes are presumed lost.
--- Quote ---it is more contemporary for our viewers now
--- End quote ---
So those of us who watched Marshall HS, in their eyes, weren't watching at all....at least, that's how I interpret this one.
Nick GAS is getting more and more airtime in this neck of the woods these days.....
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---Don't laugh---MG98 was edgy, after all. Thank goodness the tapes are presumed lost.
--- End quote ---
Whomever is presuming that is being awfully...presumptuous. I don't care how much of a train wreck the show might have been, there's absolutely no way that a major television production from five years ago is \"lost\".
\"Buried\" on the other hand....
JMFabiano:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 07:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 07:46 PM\'] [quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Oct 7 2003, 01:08 PM\'] But with Match Game, people still recognize Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly (and Betty White when she's in the sixth seat). I remember when ET did a feature on MG a year or two back, Brett said she was amazed that she gets fan mail from teenagers. [/quote]
Now, if GSN announces it will be replacing all Rayburn MG's with repeats of MG98 (can't have those numbers-killing, nasty OLD people -- pauses to spit on ground -- infesting our channel...Judy Tenuta equals RATINGS, dammit!!), I will truly be in horror.
[/quote]
Don't laugh---MG98 was edgy, after all. Thank goodness the tapes are presumed lost.
--- Quote ---it is more contemporary for our viewers now
--- End quote ---
So those of us who watched Marshall HS, in their eyes, weren't watching at all....at least, that's how I interpret this one.
[/quote]
No, no, no...like I said, the writing is on the wall. It's not that we weren't watching, it's that we are no longer wanted. Like it or not, the GSN as we knew it is close to extinction, if not there already. Ash to ash, dust to dust, fade to black...the memory remains (insert Marianne Faithfull singing \"La-la-la-la...\" here) (NOTE: If I misgave the lyrics here, sorry. Don't want angry Metallica fans emailing me)
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