[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 03:35 PM\']I saw the promo and it looks like the most God-awful thing since AN3aC.
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They haven't even taped the damn show yet, let alone picked the other participants. And you're already making judgments on it.
(Besides, \"AN3AC\" was nowhere near as bad as its progenitor. It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful, either.)
I would not be surprised to see Kennedy inject plenty of her own opinions into this mess, making it worse. She's a farce and should be banned from television. She's #2 on my all time worst hosts list, just behind Wayne [you know someone's bad when they're better than Tom Campbell *and* Blake Emmons, #3 and #4]
She's not Bill Cullen, but for her regular show, she works just fine. She'll be perfect for this show. She and I probably don't see eye-to-eye politically, but I find her witty and intelligent. I wouldn't use her for a standard-issue game show, but she probably wouldn't do a standard-issue game show anyway.
And another thing....why, oh why are there gonna have to be those inispid newsbreaks on the election in primetime? GSN is turning into a mix of G4, MTV, and CNN.
To promo the special, obviously. I don't think you're going to confuse any of this with C-SPAN.
And once again, I hate to drag this out, but GSN has to program for a broader audience than game show hardcores. Chuck Schaden, the Chicago broadcaster known for his programs of old-time radio shows, has always said, \"The past is nice to visit, but even I don't want to live in it.\" And I firmly believe that Game Show Network should celebrate the past, but also should be doing programming that reflects contemporary America. Game shows in themselves are escape and it's fun to see their fun-house reflections on reality. Besides, we all need a good laugh any way we can get it, especially from something this silly as the recall campaign.
And a year from now, when the video game block will've failed (and from similar attempts to garner demos and advertisers by GSN in the past, it's destined to fail), the whining and moaning some of you have made in this forum will prove itself to be irrational and unnecessary.
Meanwhile, I continue to look forward to Oct. 1 and what I hope will be the ultimate comment on the most ridiculous election in American political history.