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Street Smarts and Vegas Weddings On, Spy TV Gone?
CaseyAbell:
A couple of p.r.'s from the wonderful world of the web:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....02159795&EDATE=
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....02159781&EDATE=
This wipes out Spy TV's current slots, so it may be bye-bye to spy-spy. Or maybe the show will limp on somewhere in the crooks and nannies of the schedule. Rumors are that the show is bombing like a B-1.
I can't believe they'll let Darva actually talk much, except from a heavily rehearsed script. She seemed, well, not the most eloquent guest on various talk shows. Street Smarts is getting stripped at what looks like the right time to me.
Once again, it's nice to see the reference to a new series of blackjack. Maybe the Prof was right about its relatively good numbers. Now that I mention it, I'm really looking forward to the finale tonight.
Jimmy Owen:
I haven't had a chance to see Spy TV yet, so I guess I should roll tape. Surprised GSN hasn't entered the home improvement show sweepstakes yet.
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Apr 26 2004, 02:19 PM\'] I haven't had a chance to see Spy TV yet, so I guess I should roll tape. [/quote]
For curiosity value, possibly, but remember there's zero game to it.
As for Vegas Weddings, now even I'm motivated to bash GSN. As far as I'm concerned, Darva Conger is the lowest of the bottom-dwelling reality wannabes. My favorite moment on Today in a long time was when Matt Lauer dismissively told her to "have a nice life" after interviewing her for the third time and having to hear her say over and over how she just wished all this attention would go away so she could concentrate on her nursing career.
Radio comics Bob & Tom also have a very funny routine where Darva is talking about how she doesn't want all this notoriety -- while on the set of her Playboy shoot madly fielding other offers and answering her cell phone "Darva Conger Enterprises".
Add to that the fact that, as Casey adroitly points out, she has zero personality on-camera, and this looks like an even-more-disappointing-than-usual GSN offering.
CaseyAbell:
Well, I don't prejudge. But my guess is that Darva will be used in pretty small doses. Maybe not quite as tiny as the jobs Melana gets on blackjack.
Truth to tell, this sounds like what could be a very guilty pleasure. It can't be less entertaining than Spy TV, which lumbered through what I thought were excruciatingly dull stunts. The one bit I honestly got interested in was the Clinton impersonator luring girls in a bar. But it was impossible to believe that the way-too-heavy actor could really fool anybody.
EDIT: In what could be further confirmation of the Prof's comments - and other notes on MediaLifeMagazine and the GSN boards - the non-trad stuff doesn't seem to be expanding yet into the rest of the prime time schedule. Also, the latest pickup is a traditional studio gamer (albeit with tape from the outside planet).
Guess we'll have to see where they put Average Joe, Dog Eat Dog, the Greek Games thingie, Dodgeball, etc. It wouldn't amaze me to see the 10:00 slots on Wednesday and Thursday get new occupants, because the current incumbents allegedly are doing less than boffo business.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Apr 26 2004, 11:05 AM\'] Once again, it's nice to see the reference to a new series of blackjack. Maybe the Prof was right about its relatively good numbers. Now that I mention it, I'm really looking forward to the finale tonight. [/quote]
Alas, the finale runs opposite the Sharks game for me, but fortunately it's rerun about five times in the next couple days, so finding an airing that did not conflict with hockey (unless we have overtime tonight, I guess, but even then it would have to go two full OT and into a third) was a pleasantly trivial task.
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