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|  #1 Posted on 19.3.03 0612.53 | Click Here (reuters.com)
NBC is pulling its "Let's Make a Deal" revival off the air after three weeks.
The game show had been set to run through April 1, but the network changed its mind after Tuesday night's broadcast. The two remaining segments taped will be rescheduled for a later date, and network officials haven't closed the door on ordering more episodes.
NBC had planned to run the Billy Bush-hosted "Deal" on Saturday nights at 10 p.m., a low-pressure time slot on a night the network believed was ripe for growth.
But the network made a last-minute call to move "Deal" to Tuesdays at 8 p.m., forcing the series to face off against Fox's "American Idol" juggernaut. Not surprisingly, ratings weren't what NBC had hoped.
NBC will fill the 8 p.m. time slot with the special "Child Stars: Then and Now" next week and with a Three Stooges retrospective slated for April 1. No word yet on what will go into the timeslot after that.
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|  #2 Posted on 19.3.03 0711.24 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | The show could work on Saturdays at 10. But face it nothing other than live sex or executions of terrorists is going to beat Idol...
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Pepperoni
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| #3 Posted on 19.3.03 0800.11 | Actually, here's the pattern of NBC for Deal:
Saturday nights at 8p Central
Saturday nights at 7p Central (IMO, the best slot, because you'd get game leading out of game and Saturday night is a "safe" bet)
Tuesday nights at 7p Central.
Monkeys, I tell you. Programming chimps. Like Grimis said, the only thing that might work against American Idol is the aforementioned.
The "network officials haven't closed the door" statement might mean that they're still thinking about going syndie. I actually thought that last night's episode was the best out of all three, and that Billy might actually be getting better as the shows go along.
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| #4 Posted on 19.3.03 1311.37 | Instant Rating: 6.21 |
Originally posted by Grimis
The show could work on Saturdays at 10. But face it nothing other than live sex or executions of terrorists is going to beat Idol...
Live Sex that is judged by the Idol judge's.....now that would be TV!
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Loukanika
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| #5 Posted on 21.3.03 1924.52 | On Playboy tv or some other porn station, they should have as show where people audition to be porn stars. They already had a "real world" type of show.
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Liverwurst
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| #6 Posted on 22.3.03 1739.42 |
Live Sex that is judged by the Idol judge's.....now that would be TV!
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"Oh no. That was absolutely horrendous. You are the worst fucker in the world. I've seen better audtion tapes in Paula's mailbox..."
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