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Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: TimK2003 on December 05, 2006, 07:00:58 PM
Beginning Wednesday, January 3rd, "Deal Or No Deal" returns to the three TWO-a-week schedule on NBC.

Edited to correct error...see below

Question posed to the panel: Would you rather see 2 eps of DOND a week or 2 eps of 1v100 if you had to make the choice?
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: mcsittel on December 05, 2006, 07:15:32 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'139670\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 06:00 PM\']
Beginning Wednesday, January 3rd, "Deal Or No Deal" returns to the three-a-week schedule on NBC.

Which brings me to a question --  would you rather see 3 DOND's a week and one 1v100, or 2 of each per week?
[/quote]

How about running each just once a week so neither are run into the ground?  I'd think even die-hard fans would tire of that much DOND...
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: NickS on December 05, 2006, 08:09:04 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'139670\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 06:00 PM\']
Beginning Wednesday, January 3rd, "Deal Or No Deal" returns to the three-a-week schedule on NBC.

Which brings me to a question --  would you rather see 3 DOND's a week and one 1v100, or 2 of each per week?
[/quote]

How do you tie this into "more" NBC budget cuts?

I'd like to know.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: ChrisLambert! on December 05, 2006, 08:24:40 PM
I know of Monday at 8 and Wednesday at 9; what's the third timeslot?
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: TimK2003 on December 05, 2006, 10:47:10 PM
[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'139680\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 09:24 PM\']
I know of Monday at 8 and Wednesday at 9; what's the third timeslot?
[/quote]

My bad...I was still thinking the Friday @ 8PM slot, which went back to 1 vs. 100.  

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'139673\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 09:09 PM\']
How do you tie this into "more" NBC budget cuts?
I'd like to know.
[/quote]

If NBC is planning to load up more Deals and Datelines in January as 'midseason replacements' as per
This Article (http://\"http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4777247\"), then I would attribute it to more cost-cutting moves.  Some of you mayhave already counted those midseason additions as part of the original amount of budget cuts.   It's the half-full/half-empty glass theory, it's all how you look at it.

/I haven't seen Friday Night TV in about 2 months.
//I haven't seen Friday Night Lights, either.
///And I don't miss Friday Night Videos at all!!
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: calliaume on December 05, 2006, 11:22:10 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'139710\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 11:47 PM\']
If NBC is planning to load up more Deals and Datelines in January as 'midseason replacements' as per
This Article (http://\"http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4777247\"), then I would attribute it to more cost-cutting moves.  
[/quote]
I would say it's the same cost-cutting moves.

Believe me, if ABC, CBS, or Fox starts having hits with scripted material at 8 Eastern/7 Central, NBC will undo this lickety-split.  And Jeff Zucker will get all the credit.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: Matt Ottinger on December 05, 2006, 11:54:13 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'139710\' date=\'Dec 5 2006, 10:47 PM\']
If NBC is planning to load up more Deals and Datelines in January as 'midseason replacements' as per
This Article (http://\"http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4777247\"), then I would attribute it to more cost-cutting moves.  Some of you mayhave already counted those midseason additions as part of the original amount of budget cuts.   It's the half-full/half-empty glass theory, it's all how you look at it.[/quote]
Well, no, not really.  NBC announced budget cuts, and an odd commitment to unscripted programming at 8pm, at pretty much the same time.  Now that schedule is coming to fruition.  Certainly if there were "more" budget cuts, that would have been reported.  This is pretty much what we were told would happen.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: itiparanoid13 on December 06, 2006, 12:04:42 AM
And I think it's safe to say that if Identity is a sucess, it will be taking one of the "Deal or No Deal" timeslots.  That and Child's Play, as far as I know currently, is suppose to be an NBC show (that may change.  We saw Show Me The Money(What You Got)).
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: Craig Karlberg on December 06, 2006, 04:36:41 AM
If Identity does well in 2 weeks, I think this schedule might work out best:

Monday 8PM-DoND
Wednesday 8PM-Identity
Friday 8PM-1 vs 100

The other nights can be changed every once in a while.  Just don't put any of the others that I listed on Thuraday nights.  I have chat sessions on that night.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: clemon79 on December 06, 2006, 09:36:41 AM
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'139730\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 01:36 AM\']
The other nights can be changed every once in a while.  Just don't put any of the others that I listed on Thuraday nights.  I have chat sessions on that night.
[/quote]
Magical.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: cweaver on December 06, 2006, 10:55:39 AM
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'139730\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 05:36 AM\']
The other nights can be changed every once in a while.  Just don't put any of the others that I listed on Thuraday nights.  I have chat sessions on that night.
[/quote]

Don't worry, NBC heard about your chat nights and decided to keep My Name is Earl and The Office at that time.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: tvwxman on December 06, 2006, 10:58:04 AM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'139746\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 09:36 AM\']
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'139730\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 01:36 AM\']
The other nights can be changed every once in a while.  Just don't put any of the others that I listed on Thuraday nights.  I have chat sessions on that night.
[/quote]
Magical.
[/quote]
Don't knock it. I'm fairly convinced Jeff Zucker makes dumbass programming decisions in the same vein as our beloved poster.

/Do I get a strike for calling Jeff Zucker a dumbass?
//Do I get a strike for comparing Craig Karlberg to Jeff Zucker?
///Do I get a strike if I knock down ten pins in one ball in a frame of bowling?
////Celebrity Bowling was a bad idea.
/////Was Milton Berle THAT endowed?
//////I don't really want to know the answer.
///////Too late. Ewwwwwww.....
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: clemon79 on December 06, 2006, 12:00:43 PM
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'139752\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 07:58 AM\']
/////Was Milton Berle THAT endowed?
[/quote]
There is an apocryphal story where Forrest Tucker (who was similarly known for his endowment) and Uncle Miltie were in a steam room frequented by many of the show-biz guys, and someone suggested a size contest. Berle said to Tucker: "Don't worry...I'll only pull out enough to win." :)
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: Chuck Sutton on December 06, 2006, 12:35:01 PM
Deal or No Deal will also air Sun at 7 for three weeks in Jan to boost the new Grease reality show and The Apprentice.

So for a while it will be three times a week.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: SRIV94 on December 06, 2006, 03:40:04 PM
[quote name=\'Chuck Sutton\' post=\'139761\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 11:35 AM\']
Deal or No Deal will also air Sun at 7 for three weeks in Jan to boost the new Grease reality show and The Apprentice.
[/quote]
Hmmm--I had thought that once SNF ends that NBC was to roll out the new season of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT.  Or is that still in the plan and they're just delaying it by a few weeks?
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: GS Warehouse on December 06, 2006, 04:08:36 PM
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'139768\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 03:40 PM\']Hmmm--I had thought that once SNF ends that NBC was to roll out the new season of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT.  Or is that still in the plan and they're just delaying it by a few weeks?[/quote]
Try months.  It's possible--even more probable--that AGT may be pushed back to summer.  And personally, I think that's the right move.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: uncamark on December 06, 2006, 04:27:06 PM
Meanwhile, ABC's made "Show Me the Money" the eventual sacrificial lamb for "Idol" on Tuesday nights at 8 starting in January, as part of a moving around designed to get "Lost" out of "Idol"'s crosshairs and sending "Day Break" to hiatusland.

At least Shatner's got his other gig.
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: MikeK on December 06, 2006, 05:54:03 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'139757\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 12:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'139752\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 07:58 AM\']
/////Was Milton Berle THAT endowed?
[/quote]
There is an apocryphal story where Forrest Tucker (who was similarly known for his endowment) and Uncle Miltie were in a steam room frequented by many of the show-biz guys, and someone suggested a size contest. Berle said to Tucker: "Don't worry...I'll only pull out enough to win." :)
[/quote]
Wow.  That story was quite a lot to swallow.

/Got a window seat on the first express train to Hell
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: BrandonFG on December 06, 2006, 06:07:44 PM
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'139790\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 05:54 PM\']
Wow.  That story was quite a lot to swallow.
[/quote]
Personally I thought it sucked.

/Klauss, need a roommate in Hell?
//Window overlookes the River Styx.
///Central heating too!
Title: More NBC/Universal Budget Cuts...
Post by: clemon79 on December 06, 2006, 06:08:07 PM
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'139790\' date=\'Dec 6 2006, 02:54 PM\']
Wow.  That story was quite a lot to swallow.
[/quote]
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