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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: chad1m on November 17, 2009, 04:21:22 PM
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Former MTV DJ Dave Holmes, on his Twitter page (http://\"http://twitter.com/DaveHolmes\") posted hours ago in separate tweets "My friends at the MTV say there will be some classic episodes of Remote Control tomorrow late-night... Remote Control will be on MTV2 tonight from 9-10p EST, and MTV 2-3a tomorrow night."
The on-screen guides, of course, won't be updated with this information, but let's tune in to remember Ken Ober and his great show.
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Cool. Now I'll have something to fill the extra space on my final Password disc.
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Whoa--serious? Gotta get my DVR programmed
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Don't worry Chuck D. I'll have them DVR'd.
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'230763\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 04:31 PM\']Don't worry Chuck D. I'll have them DVR'd.[/quote]
Perhaps Chuck D., just once, should record his own stuff.
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Just read this thread 2 minutes ago. I've almost never bolted from my computer chair to the DVD recorder so fast. Thanks for the info.
I may take out my Nintendo game out for good measure.
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For anyone not watching, 1st season episode is first up.
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[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'230771\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 10:12 PM\']For anyone not watching, 1st season episode is first up.[/quote]
Can anyone clarify Mr. Holmes's account of the airing schedule? Will the RC eps air on MTV (for those of us without MTV2) overnight Tues/Wed or overnight Wed/Thurs? Thank you! (Too bad that it happens to be during the Pyramid hour on GSN...)
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From the obit thread:
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'230758\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 05:44 PM\'][quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'230751\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 05:11 PM\']Nope, it's 2-3am 11/19, as it airs "after a rerun of For The Love of Ray-J 2 (http://\"http://daveholmes.tumblr.com/post/247516665\")" (link goes to Dave Holmes' blog).[/quote]
Which means for DVR folk you are recording "The Hills" and "The Hills Aftershow". Unless a guide update gets sent out before then to reflect the changes.
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Thanks for letting us know... the DVR is rolling!
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2nd episode's one of the later ones with Susan Ashley
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Anyone have word on Pacific times?
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Damned commercials running this long...hope everyone set their DVR/VCR to run 8 minutes over (-2 and +6)
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[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'230778\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 10:04 PM\']Damned commercials running this long...hope everyone set their DVR/VCR to run 8 minutes over (-2 and +6)[/quote]
That's pretty much MTV standard these days. Most, if not all of their shows run over some so I prepared for it. They ran over a little longer than MTV standard since these actually came from a time where there was actual bulk to a show, and they aired them untouched.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'230780\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 10:19 PM\']I'm glad that they are doing a mini-tribute to Ken, but only just a couple of episodes??
I guess there's too many music videos shown during the program (end game), and you know that MTV(2, 3, 312,...) doesn't want to be looked at as a MUSIC VIDEO CHANNEL..(what would people say?)
And of course, Remote Control isn't as entertaining as the 300th re-running of the entire "I Like The 90s" series either, now is it???[/quote]
I'm just glad we got to see them again. They could have only aired that little bumper they used tonight, or nothing at all. I can guarantee that MTV's core audience these days have no clue who Ken was. It's just a shame that this unfortunate circumstance is how we were able to see a few reruns. I wish this show would pop up on VH1 Classic or overnights on MTV2. I miss it.
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What a treat. Made me remember how hot Marisol Massey was.
Shame this had to be the reason to reair the shows, but thanks MTV for remembering Ken.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'230765\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 07:42 PM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'230763\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 04:31 PM\']Don't worry Chuck D. I'll have them DVR'd.[/quote]
Perhaps Chuck D., just once, should record his own stuff.
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DVDR screwups do happen, y'know...but I digress, nice to see them paying tribute to Ken, and it'll def be a treat.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'230791\' date=\'Nov 17 2009, 08:33 PM\']DVDR screwups do happen, y'know...[/quote]
Fairly often, from the looks of it.
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As a reminder, if you missed it on MTV2, MTV will air two episodes of Remote Control at 2-2:30 am ET "tonight."
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[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'230817\' date=\'Nov 18 2009, 01:32 PM\']As a reminder, if you missed it on MTV2, MTV will air two episodes of Remote Control at 2-2:30 am ET "tonight."[/quote]
My TiVo has updated the guide to actually list "Remote Control" for "tonight". If you set it to record it last night when it was still listed as "The Hills..." you may want to go back in and redo it.
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At least this time it'll be in "no it's not really HD", as opposed to compressed-the-hell-out-of-it MTV2 in SD last night.
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Question for those who were watching the second episode:
Who is in the larger photo to Ken's right (our left), under the trophy shelf? For most of the episode, it was obscured by a doll. I recognized photos of Wink, Cullen, Barris, and I think Convy. Did not recognize this photo. Any help is appreciated.
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Tom Kennedy.
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I'd just like to take the opportunity to say that was the single best hour of MTV programming I've seen in this decade and then some. A shining hour for a normally unwatchable channel. Really, would it kill them to stick a run somewhere in the 50 trillion channels owned by the company? It was an awesome show and it's a shame it doesn't turn up more often.
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Hopefully the ratings will reflect that and they'll stick it in a decent time slot... not that it matters anyway with the technology of DVR... just sad that it took the death of Ken for the MTV heads to get their heads out of their butts and put the show back on... even for a little while.
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Bigger problem is they can't fit the show into a 30 minute slot anymore unless they either (a) cut the commercials to the bone; (b) time compress the hell out of it; or © just let it run long (yeah right)
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They could always run the show full, with full commercials, then pad the extra time to fill an hour with music videos.
/Oh wait...
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'230887\' date=\'Nov 19 2009, 07:44 AM\']They could always run the show full, with full commercials, then pad the extra time to fill an hour with music videos.
/Oh wait...[/quote]
What are those? (quizzical puzzled look)