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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 11:04 AM\'] If a lot of licenses for old shows expire in April, I don't see how GSN can avoid renewing them, with the obvious exception of WLoD. Their March 15 schedule is dominated by old game shows. No way they can fill all those hours if they let a bunch of licenses expire.
I've seen some promos for the upcoming Valentine's Day LC marthon. GSN has clearly licensed some eps besides the 1991-92 episodes they've ground into dust. (Funny to see Chuck with longer hair. Looks like the old WoF days.) I don't know if this is a one-time license or if GSN will put those different episodes into their regular rotation. [/quote]
I'm just speculating WLOD's license may lapse and they aren't renewing it. It wouldn't be the first time GSN let a show's license lapse if true, they did not renew TPIR in April 2000 when its license ran out. ANd back in 1997 in their early, freewheeling days before they were in many homes, they let the license for the other Goodson-Todman shows lapse, not renewing it for six months(which is where the term Dark Period came about)
As far as LC, all 11 years of the show are available to show as reruns. Since those episodes in the promo look to be from the 80s, there will be end of show fee plugs either cut out or become a victim to split screen credits. The 80s LC featured Rod Roddy and Gene Wood early on, and later Johnny Gilbert as the announcer. John Cervanka AKA Burt Luddin became the announcer in 1989, and was there through the show's end in 1994. John returned for the first half of the 1998-99 season's remake of LC, and his brother (I think his name is Jay) did the second half of that run.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 08:15 AM\'] GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
Not quite. The more appropriate statement would be "GSN is giving us what they think people will watch." They know DAMN well what WE want to see. :)
CaseyAbell:
GSN now holds the license to ALL the Love Connection eps? I thought they just picked up a batch of the 1991-92 shows.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, so I wouldn't mind seeing some of the 1980s episodes.
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:58 AM\'] GSN now holds the license to ALL the Love Connection eps? I thought they just picked up a batch of the 1991-92 shows.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, so I wouldn't mind seeing some of the 1980s episodes. [/quote]
GSN may or may not have the license to show all 11 years (it could be just five years, for all we know--unless someone's made a phone call to Culver City for confirmation). But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.
Doug
PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 08:15 AM\'] GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
Not quite. The more appropriate statement would be "GSN is giving us what they think people will watch." They know DAMN well what WE want to see. :) [/quote]
Did you miss the last-minute special last night, Chris? If you did, I'll send you a DVD of it. It was "The Best of Hollywood Connection." :-)
On a more serious note, it seems that Games Across America is already in reruns.
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